Hi all,

 

Only just found out about Armbian. Looks really useful. Want to use an Orange Pi Zero 3 for Pihole with Unbound and Pivpn.

However, i haven't found an answer for when you would use one distro over the other.

Also which is what in the download listings?

Thank you.

Bionic, Focal, jammy Noble are all Ubuntu. 
Buster, Bullseye, bookworm, sid are all Debian versions.

You use what you prefer or what fits your tasks best.
I use Armbian Jammy on my Rock5B since I use it as main desktop and that's the image that works best for that.
On my travel NanoPi R6S I use Armbian Noble because it has a better KDEnlive version to edit and render video's on my cycling trips.
On my NAS ZimaBoard I use Noble because it fixes an issue with mounted drives, but could just as well use a debian version.

For your tasks I would probably use Armbian Bookworm and install the apps.
You probably could use CasaOS on Jammy for these tasks. It is a webinterface that allows you to install and setup docker apps.
To install casaOS on Jammy :

 

wget -qO- https://get.casaos.io | sudo bash

So both downloadable images are community releases and not official armbian supported images.
There is bookworm Debian 12 minimal which has only the essential things to boot a system and set it up.
The other is Jammy Ubuntu 22.04 with the Gnome desktop. 

I would advice to build your own images with the distro version you want. 

Hi NicoD,

Thanks for your insights.

I am fairly new in Linux as in using it, but have read a lot. So I did know the Ubuntu comes from Debian for instance. Although now administered separately.

Your note above does helps me, so many thanks. I believe a mention of just using what you want should be mentioned in the beginners guide. I didn't see anything like it. Also, which distribution name belongs to what vendor. But that's just my opinion.

CasaOS seems interesting but more than what I need at this stage. 

Building my own is again more that what I am prepared to do stuff this stage, too daunting.

 

LurchNZ

Edited March 29, 20242 yr by LurchNZ
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