Hello,

since the build for OrangePi Plus 2 is only community maintained (and there is a warning during installation that this build is not suitable for production), I though of using some generic image or a image for a similar board with standard support. Is it a good Idea? Which image should I choose?

Thanks for help,

Skalistan

 

P.S. there is no tag for "OrangePi Plus 2", so I used the tag for "OrangePi Plus 2E" since it is required to add a tag.

58 minutes ago, Skalistan said:

is only community maintained

 

This is a reminder that for production quality someone needs to constantly invest time. We build community images for amateur usage and to match other projects support levels. We also keep archives of almost all older builds: https://archive.armbian.com/orangepi2/archive which could serve as a cheap workaround.

 

We do that for many boards, but there are simply too many of them. Producing them is dirt cheap ... maintaining extremely expensive. There is also lack of cooperation from 3rd party projects and vendor in question. Support goes in reverse order, they actually harm us all the time, consume our work, contribute nothing. Orangepi also only invests in sales and does not support open source developers / projects. For our group I can tell you 1st hand, but I have solid information that others are also unlucky.

 

58 minutes ago, Skalistan said:

not suitable for production

 

We are happy to help.
https://www.armbian.com/contact/ -> Quick start

 

Not sure what is current support status. It could be very broken with weeks to invest or not so much. Last time I had those boards (2e to be precise) in the automating testing, they were not very stable. Reboot sometimes didn't bring them back, crashing on load ... 

Hi @Skalistan,

 

see here..

Build your own image with the Build Framework.

 

Markus

41 minutes ago, MacBreaker said:

Build your own image with the Build Framework.

 

This can be skipped, unless Debian Bookworm and Ubuntu Noble XFCE is not enough.

 

We provide fresh, weekly automated builds at download pages https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-plus-2/ but dunno if images works.

Thank you for clarifying everything. Fortunately, the automated build works so far, so I will keep using that. I must agree that OrangePI kinda sucks... should have bought a RaspberryPi

1 hour ago, Skalistan said:

automated build works

 

This should be labelled as "untested", but its also covered by our work largerly.

Keeping general stability on Allwinner SoC stack (and on boards developers use for doing this) costs just our project hundreds of engineering hours. At some release more, at some less, four times per year. Excluding all other work that needs to be done, maintaining automation, project management, ...
 

2 hours ago, Skalistan said:

should have bought

 

Put "software support sponsored by Armbian team" on your product or support developers that does the work instead of you. Software perfection is what everyone wants, including us. But the problem is that everyone looks the other way, when we start talking about costs trying to get there.