I just bought a 2nd-hand CubieTruck which apparently has a cubieboard 3. The cubieboard.org website is a shit-show of dead links. There are some docs but all the drivers and software are dead links. No Android or Debian images. It’s also a shit-show over at archive.org:
web.archive.org/…/v2.0_A20_android_source.tar.gz
There is a tree of directories here:
web.archive.org/web/…/dl.cubieboard.org/
but 404 errors on all files. In principle, softwareheritage.org should have the software. But it doesn’t because (I suspect) s/w heritage fixates on github and probably needed someone to manually request that they keep software outside of Microsoft’s walled garden.
I don’t suppose anyone has cubieboard 3 files… but in the very least I hope this post will serve to warn ppl to avoid cubieboard.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 week ago
Yeah, use Armbian. And Debian mainline and Arch Linux (ARM variant) run on the Cubietruck as well. Most of the stuff has been mainlined. I just can’t get graphics acceleration working. Other than that you could just install any regular Linux distribution. If you’re willing to put in the extra effort to deal with u-boot or whatever we use these days and the other effort involved to put Linux on an ARM computer. There’s info on their Wikis. And https://linux-sunxi.org has some information as well. Most of the times general instructions for A20 boards apply.