Raspberry Pi’s for users until Raspberry Pi Inc. goes bancrupt & Orange Pi 5 & Mango Pi Quad for developers?

Last Updated on January 11, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

There are only two communities which we know which are alive for the Orange Pi 5 & Mango Pi Quad, and these are mainly developer communities:

The armbian forum for the Orange Pi 5:

https://forum.armbian.com/forum/206-orange-pi-5-5b-5-plus/

There the forum master deleted our posts and has banned us from the armbian forum. Is this a sign that armbian will be dead soon, too, and Ubuntu on the Orange Pi 5 is the future?

The Mango Pi forum:

https://forum.mangopi.org/latest

Has an interesting journal about Debian Bookworm on the MangoPI quad:

https://forum.mangopi.org/t/journal-debian-bookworm-build-for-mangopi-quad-h616/2260

The Raspberry Pi forum:

https://forums.raspberrypi.com

is quiet large and alive for comparison. Users can check there if Raspberry Pi Inc. is already bancrupt or not.