??? Armbian is open-source. Some boards eventually get stuff from Armbian merged back into upstream Debian however you’re still better running Armbian as it comes with optimizations to avoid burning SD cards etc.
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dauerstaender@feddit.de 7 months ago
Does it’s run upstream Debian or SUSE? No? A custom distribution with proprietary binary blobs and no updates after one year you say? Sounds shit.
TCB13@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
This is the only question that really matters. If it’s overpriced? meh, it’s a cheap alternative to a NUC. But if it’s going to be stuck on obsolete software forever, run.
TCB13@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s the reason why Armbian exists. So those devices will keep having newer kernels and software. Read into the things.