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This could be a good match, because bananapi do a lot of boards but their software story has been a bit poor, as it tends to be an android build hacked together
by ajb 3y ago
This could be a good match, because bananapi do a lot of boards but their software story has been a bit poor, as it tends to be an android build hacked together with a conventional linux distribution (or was a few years ago when I last looked). Whereas openWRT know how to build a software platform.
bananapi have some kind of link with foxconn, but I don't know what kind.
- jonhohle 3y agoSINOVOIP is the major name associated with BPI, but it does seem like it is also affiliated with Foxconn. At least one of their engineers has been working with the OpenWRT team closely on the R3 and has been a wealth of knowledge in the BPI forums.
- squarefoot 3y ago> bananapi do a lot of boards but their software story has been a bit poor This is quite common with other board manufacturers too. I'd rather suggest to ignore completely their cobbled together distros, often also tainted by proprietary modifications, that become unmaintained in a few years, and see if they're among the many supported by Armbian or DietPi. https://www.armbian.com/download/ https://www.armbian.com/download/ https://dietpi.com/#download https://dietpi.com/#download
- jazzyjackson 3y agoI had a good experience with Armbian, it was my first time modifying a linux distro with extra packages so that we didn't have to run install scripts and compile on the orange pi (actually I started looking at how to build armbian because the build step for python's crypto module would fail after cranking away for an hour. Not enough memory or something timed out. Anyway running the armbian build process with a target cpu architecture was a breeze following their docs)