| ▲ | anonymousiam 19 hours ago |
| My experience with the OrangePi 4 LTS has been poor, and I'm unwilling to purchase more of their hardware. Mine is now running Armbian because I didn't care for the instability, or for the Chinese repos. They seem uninterested in trying to get their hardware supported by submitting their patches for inclusion in the Linux kernel, and popular distros. Instead, you have to trust their repos (based in PRC). |
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| ▲ | bjackman 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I opened the review and immediately ctrl-F'd "kernel". It said no upstream support so I closed the article. I would never buy one of these things without upstream kernel support for the SoC and a sane bootloader. Even the Raspberry Pi is not great on this front TBH (kernel is mostly OK but the fucked up boot chain is a PITA, requires special distro support). |
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| ▲ | eyegor 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Chinese repos" is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os. It seemed like it was on the free plan too, it often didn't work because it tripped the maximum downloads per month limit. |
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| ▲ | Beretta_Vexee 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's always better than a link in the sticky post on the manufacturer's phpbb forum. I bought some audio equipment directly from a Chinese company, and everything look like a hobbies/student project. | | |
| ▲ | margalabargala 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Is it? A google drive link to an OS image is worse IMO | |
| ▲ | copx 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I bought a MiniPC directly from a Chinese company (an AOOSTAR G37) and the driver downloads on their website are MEGA links. I thought only piracy and child porn sites used those.. I am somewhat amazed how you can manufacture such expensive high tech equipment yet are too cheap to setup a proper download service for the software, which would be very simple and cheap compared to making the hardware itself. Maybe it is a Chinese mentality thing where the first question is always "What is the absolutely cheapest way to do this?" and all other concerns are secondary at best. ..which does not inspire confidence in the hardware either. Maybe Chinese customers are different, see this, and think "These people are smart! Why pay more if you don't have to!". |
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| ▲ | ekianjo 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > "Chinese repos" is a very charitable interpretation of the Google drive links they used to distribute the os. "Chinese repos" refer to the fact that the debian repos links for updates point to custom Huawei servers. | |
| ▲ | ekianjo 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > it often didn't work because it tripped the maximum downloads per month limit. it always work if you login into a Google account prior to downloading. If you don't, indeed the downloads will regularly fail. | | |
| ▲ | threeducks 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | > it always work[s] That was not my experience, at least for very large files (100+ GB). There was a workaround (that has since been patched) where you could link files into your own Google drive and circumvent the bandwidth restriction that way. The current workaround is to link the files into a directory and then download the directory containing the link as an archive, which does not count against the bandwidth limit. | | |
| ▲ | ekianjo 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I see. I never had to download such large files from Drive. For files up to 10Gb I never had any issue though. |
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| ▲ | apple4ever 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's always the problem with these non-Pi SBCs. They never have good software support. |
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| ▲ | rbanffy 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Even bigger brands such as Nvidia seem to expect us to recycle SBCs every couple years. | | |
| ▲ | yonatan8070 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | The Jetson Nano launched with Ubuntu 18.04, today, this is still the only officially supported distro for it. I have no reason to think this would be different with the Orin and Thor series, or even with the DGX Spark with its customized Ubuntu/"DGX OS". | | |
| ▲ | zipy124 an hour ago | parent [-] | | I still don't understand why they couldn't support them properly. There are so many situations in which they could be better than alternatives, only to be hamstring by the poorest OS support. | | |
| ▲ | yonatan8070 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You see, a small startup like NVIDIA just doesn't have the budget to support their older devices the same way a multi-trillion dollar company like Raspberry Pi can. |
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| ▲ | ndsipa_pomu an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The NanoPi models from FriendlyElec tend to have better support. |
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| ▲ | dev_l1x_be 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I have this experience with most of these SBC-s. The new Radxa board boots 50% of the time. The only reliable SBCs I have are RPI3|4. |
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| ▲ | amelius 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have a Radxa zero 3E that boots and runs fine. | |
| ▲ | nine_k 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Sounds like a faulty SD card. | | | |
| ▲ | ekianjo 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't have any Radxa model, but I have a bunch of SBCs from different makers and I have never seen a problem with boot working half of the time only. |
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| ▲ | knowitnone3 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| you keep insinuating PRC yet you don't realize you're already pwned just running their hardware no matter the OS. |
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