Armbian for Pine64

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I just want to share my experience with new Armbian.

I was using Armbian in my pine 64 2Gb board but later switched to Xenial Minimal Image [0.6.2-77] by ayufan, because I think this is the most rapidly updating OS available among all.
I use my Pine64 for the following purposes.

1. Media player (to watch online TV series and downloaded movies)
   
2. PHP, mysql server for my home business
   
3. Home based network storage through Samba share
   

Even though video playback is terrible with linux in pine64, I am reluctant to use android as other 2 functions are difficult (if not impossible) with android.
(I used Android 7.1 Community Image [v0.3.5-r61] for a couple of days and it is only good for video play back. It is considerably slow to respond and at loading web pages).

Before I purchased the pine64, I used my Intel core 2 duo laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 and XAMPP, for the PHP/mysql server function. The laptop and a Tablet at sale point are connected to my home WIFI router. Later I connected the Pine64 to the same router through Ethernet port and used it as the PHP/Mysql server.

The speed of the server in pine64 (when using Xenial Minimal Image [0.6.2-77] by ayufan) is almost identical to XAMPP server in my laptop; even when I access the server from the laptop. That means local XAMPP server is identical in speed to remote server in Pine64.

Yesterday I again switched to Armbian [5.30] and updated it to 5.32 through apt-get. I used GPT partition table to format the SD card before installing the OS. The PHP/mysql server installed in new armbian OS is faster than the local XAMPP server when using through my laptop. I don't know this faster speed is because of the GPT partitioning of the SD card or just because Armbian.

Video playback is also better in Armbian compared to Xenile minimal with Mate DE. I had to install firefox browser for online video because video playback is jurky in chromium.

Overall I'm happy with the experience with Armbian in pine64 2Gb.

Thank you for reading.

Thanks on sharing your experience and glad that you are happy with Armbian build.