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Linux-on-an-SBC project Armbian releases version 22.02

igorp

> Armbian also tended to deprecate hardware too quickly

You are never left in a worse position as Debian or Ubuntu upstream. You still will be receiving all updates, just nobody specifically (a person or a team) will be fixing bugs outside the kernel.org. Just like vanilla Debian or Ubuntu. But due to the much larger and dense specific community around Armbian, device will still get a lot more fixing and maintaining, just by random community member, un-officially, no warranty. We also maintain several thousands of kernel patches that will probably never be send & received upstream. And we still keep on eye if upgrades works https://github.com/armbian/scripts/actions/runs/1709203416 ... That Armbian deprecation means.

Whenever you use build framework you can build a fresh image with any user land that smells on Ubuntu and Debian in no time. No trickery, hacking, deboostraping and fixing bugs of this process ... there is always something, while build framework is well maintained.

I use Yocto on a daily basis and I am a co-designer of this framework. This would be a very short top level overview / comparison:

https://github.com/armbian/build#compare-with-industry-standards

Cheers!

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