On 16/11/23 15:40, Tixy wrote:
On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 09:04 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
My current favourites are RK3588 based CPU SBC devices which have an
exceptionally fast set of CPUs, high speed networking, and options for
Debian or Ubuntu or OpenWRT or Armbian.
Are these the usual SBC setup where you have to run the vendor kernel,
plus possibly other custom bits, or would pure Debian including kernel
run on them?
The FriendlyPC version run a vendor version of Debian with some packages
especially compiled for the device such as ffmpeg and graphics drivers
Armbian is usually a bit slower in releases and produces a more
canonical Debian version with differences in the SBC specific device
drivers using dynamic overlays. Most packages are pure debian
The Armbian kernel is a variation on Debian but you can cross compile it
on an X86 debian system if you need specific kernal mods - though
generally the Armbian kernel doesn't need any changes.
This is from my Armbian Router using my fastest mirror which is in Singapore
root@edge:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.0.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD
Binary-1 with firmware 20230610-10:23]/ bookworm main non-free-firm>
deb http://mirror.djvg.sg/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://mirror.djvg.sg/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main
non-free-firmware
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security
main non-free-firmware
# bookworm-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://mirror.djvg.sg/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://mirror.djvg.sg/debian/ bookworm-updates main
non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free
root@edge:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# cat armbian.list
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] http://apt.armbian.com
bookworm main bookworm-utils bookworm-desktop
