Hello list,
a big thank you to all the developers of Armbian.
I am a newbie to arm boards, have limited experience with various linuxes and definitely not enough know-how to progam anything or to compile kernels or build images, and things like u-boots are warships for me.
Without your great software images my cubietruck would probably have been an investment into electronic scrap!
A short user-feedback:
Why does a normal consumer want to use a cubieboard?
To use my favorite .mp3-player attached via SPDIF to his stereo equipment, play music from a harddisk and control it via VNC-Client from a tablet (because I don't want to use an 80 W TV to control a 6 W computer).
My first experience is great: Thanks to your software (jessie desktop, legacy) I succeded immediately to get the cubietruck running and to get sound from the SPDIF-jack to my stereo equipment.
To my surprise the volume control and the mixer of the desktop version do nothing (which is very welcome because the pure PCM audio it delivers is the best input for the stereo equipment).
My next steps:
Try to get my favorite player running (banshee, which I prefer because of it's unique community extension mirage (a really inteligent auto-DJ)). As it is not available in jessie for armhf the nextsteps will either try installing it from sid or to use the ubuntu image, upgrade it to xfce (for ubuntu armhf the player is available) and install the player under ubuntu.
I hope one of the ways will work sooner or later (the first trial of both did not because my maloperation of apt-get).
Really great what you are doing!
Images with up-to-date software for people ho are not software engineers seem to be rare outside the raspi world. Hope it's not too trivial for the software cracks what people are doing with their work.
Regards,
Christian