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The official build framework for the Armbian Linux distribution. This repository contains the complete toolchain and scripts required to compile custom OS images from source, including kernel configuration, U-Boot handling, and board-specific tweaks for various ARM and ARM64 single-board computers.

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What it is

The official build framework for the Armbian Linux distribution. This repository contains the complete toolchain and scripts required to compile custom OS images from source, including kernel configuration, U-Boot handling, and board-specific tweaks for various ARM and ARM64 single-board computers.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-07-19 16:54:14 UTC to 2025-12-08 12:10:33 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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squarefoot·Oct 28, 2023
> how can I trust that the OS images of this company don't contain any spyware? Software from board manufacturers shouldn't be used anyway, if not because in a few years it is often discontinued and not updated anymore because they're pushing newer models. Thankfully we have Armbian and Dietpi which are the distros of choice for all boards that don't run major PC oriented distros (and a nice alternative for those that do). The number of boards supported by these two distros is astonishing: https://www.armbian.com/download/ https://dietpi.com/#download The NanoPC-T6 is already supported by Armbian build system: https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/config/boards
In Cortex X2: ARM aims high
LargoLasskhyfv·Aug 6, 2019
Not crazy at all, very useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zram https://wiki.debian.org/ZRam Or Armbian, a Debian derivative for many RaspberryPi-like ARM boards, where it helps avoiding trashing the usual sd-cards, and holds the logs, with different compression algorithms for /var/log, /tmp and swap. Their script is here: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/co... I really like how this enables a tiny NanoPi Neo2 with one GB Ram booting from a 64GB SD-Card in an aluminum case with SATA-adapter and a 2,5" HDD mostly idling to draw only about 1W from the wall socket, while clocking up from about 400Mhz to 1,3Ghz if it needs to. It's not the fastest, but sufficient.
In The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure

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