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Armbian 21.05 distribution for ARM devices is now available for download with support for Linux kernel 5.11, support for the Orange Pi R1 Plus open-source single-board computer, as well as numerous improvements.
Collabora announces PanVk, an open-source Vulkan driver for ARM Mali Bifrost and Midgard GPUs to be included in future Mesa graphics stack branches.
Manjaro ARM 21.02 is now available for download. This release comes with the Xfce 4.16 and KDE Plasma 5.21 desktop environments by default, Plymouth as default boot splash screen, and new packages from upstream.
The latest openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM snapshot adds support for Raspberry Pi 400 and Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module systems, along with numerous updates and bug fixes.
OpenMandriva Lx 4.2 Release Candidate is now ready for public testing. The final release arrives in early 2021 with full support for ARM64 devices, Linux kernel 5.10 LTS, and KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop environment.
Manjaro ARM 20.12 Linux distribution is now available for download. This release comes with the latest KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop environment, a brand-new app for flashing the images, and various other improvements.
Armbian 20.11.3 is now available for ARM development boards with Linux 5.9 kernel support for more devices, as well as various bug fixes and improvements.
Debian-based Armbian Linux distro for ARM devices has a new major release powered by Linux kernel 5.9 and featuring support for new devices, such as Odroid-HC4.
EndeavourOS ARM launches for ARM-powered devices based on Arch Linux ARM and featuring all the benefits of the EndeavourOS Linux distribution.
After Mobian Linux, now the Arch Linux ARM distribution is available for PINE64’s PineTab Linux tablet. As expected, support is in early stages of development, but it’s worth a try.
Meet Karmbian, an ARM Linux distro for ethical hacking and penetration testing. It is optimized for ARM-based devices and based on Kali Linux, using the Armbian toolchain.
