Last Updated on April 15, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
armbian was developed for arm based single board computers and is optimized for those. But on which of the following devices does armbian run? Would armbian not be the better OS for these devices, than for instance Debian for the Mango Pi quatt?
| Product | Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W | MangoPi MQ Pro | MangoPi MQ-QUAD | Radxa Zero |
| CPU | ARM Cortex A53 | C906 RISC-V | Arm Cortex A53 | Arm Cortex A53 |
| GPU | Broadcom | G2D | Mali G31 | Mali G31 |
| Processor speed (Ghz) | 1 | 1 | 1,5 | 1.8 |
| Number of cores | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Ram (GB) | 512MB | 1 | 1 | 1/2/4 |
| usb connectivity | usb 2 | usb-c | usb-c | usb-c |
| best developed Linux OS on the device | Raspberry Pi OS | 12 OS images are available, but who uses those? | We suppose Debian, we know of no major issues, but does it run slowly? | Twister OS armbian Focal Beta 5 Release 203? |
| Does armbian run on the device? | Is Rasberry Pi OS not the best choice for this device? And if so, why then to develop armbian for it? | NicoD’s SBCs shows an armbian demo with video playback which has issues and shows speed tests which show that the device is slow | A user reported to have tried to install two armbian images but both did not boot | Twister OS armbian is armbian based, but a a user reported to have tried to install several armbian images and failed, then he installed a different OS (*1) |
| price (USD) | increased from 15 to 105 within a year | 30 | 30 | max 100 |
(*1) The user who reported problem with installing armbain installed radxa-zero-ubuntu-focal-server-arm64-20220501-0334-mbr instead:
You can find the source of this information in previous posts in this journal.