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RPro Image Suggestions - jl_678 - 04-14-2020
Hi all,
As an existing owner of Pine64s and a Rock64, I have finally decided to take the plunge with a RockPro64. It is on its way, and I am pondering OSes. As I recall, original Pine64 and Rock64 builds were a bit mixed and so I wanted to reach out to ask the experts about the build that I should consider. (I have the most experience with Ubuntu/Armbian, and my use case is a headless Linux server using a minimal distribution.) My current ideas are:
Ubuntu 18.04
Armbian
DietPi
What do you folks think of these? Is one better than the others from a reliability on the RPro standpoint? Is there anything else that I should consider?
TIA
RE: RPro Image Suggestions - dukla2000 - 04-14-2020
I can't answer your questions as I have no meaningful experience of armbian or dietpi. Certainly I am happy with my installation as per my sig: it runs pretty stable and suitably low resource usage. So Ubuntu minimal is def worth being on your list imho.
I did try recently Manjaro ARM and postmarketOS (from pinebook pro) in a futile attempt to get a v5 kernel. Basically with both I had problems fairly quickly to get the functionality I need and couldn't resolve them so I am still on Ubuntu.
RE: RPro Image Suggestions - jl_678 - 04-15-2020
(04-14-2020, 04:51 PM)dukla2000 Wrote: I can't answer your questions as I have no meaningful experience of armbian or dietpi. Certainly I am happy with my installation as per my sig: it runs pretty stable and suitably low resource usage. So Ubuntu minimal is def worth being on your list imho.
I did try recently Manjaro ARM and postmarketOS (from pinebook pro) in a futile attempt to get a v5 kernel. Basically with both I had problems fairly quickly to get the functionality I need and couldn't resolve them so I am still on Ubuntu.
Thank you. It sounds like you have had a great experience with Ubuntu. I will probably start with that unless I hear strong recommendations to go another direction.
RE: RPro Image Suggestions - Bullet64 - 04-16-2020
For headless i would suggest https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases/download/0.10.12/buster-minimal-rockpro64-0.10.12-1184-arm64.img.xz
Debian Buster 10.3 with kernel 5.6. And booting from an PCIe NVMe SSD
RE: RPro Image Suggestions - jl_678 - 04-16-2020
(04-16-2020, 08:44 AM)Bullet64 Wrote: For headless i would suggest https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases/download/0.10.12/buster-minimal-rockpro64-0.10.12-1184-arm64.img.xz
Debian Buster 10.3 with kernel 5.6. And booting from an PCIe NVMe SSD
I would be open to this. However, I notice that it is clearly stated as a pre-release build with lots of verbiage around stability and testing. I ran something like this with my Rock64, and encountered trouble upon upgrading that brought the system down. As a result, I was not all that comfortable with stability of pre-release builds. I take it your experience has been different? Do you upgrade to every pre-release build?