Current best solution for Linux on the MK808B Plus

[DanielSB]

Hey all!

I bought my first MK808B Plus last year, and being amazed by the performance of this little wonder, I decided to get another one to use as a small web server for my blogs and stuff.

I went from stock to the Wetek play gift Android thingie pretty quickly, and then moved on to the marvellous OpenELEC which has just proven to be fantastic, stable and fast.

Since this second stick was going to be a headless server, I went looking for more "regular" Linux offerings for it. The Odroid community have some pretty nice things going, like Odrobian, but of course I can't just flash that. Instead, I tried out the LinuxMiniPC Ubuntu Mate beta, which offers your regular Ubuntu installation with which I'm very familiar. Only thing about this rom/distro is that 1) WiFi is pretty much broken, and 2) The SD card seems to be triggering the occasional kernel panic which worries me a bit.

Given that I've been impressed with OpenELEC's stability, I'm now thinking about building on that, and I'm looking into using Homebrew for Linux as an easy way of getting software installed which for good reasons aren't part of OpenELEC (node.js, postgres, nginx, and so on).

Ideally, I'd love to just have vanilla Ubuntu server, Debian, or an IllumOS based distro, but AFAICT from my Googling fu, it's either OpenELEC or this Ubuntu Mate thingamajig.

Am I missing some third option, or what do you guys think? Anyone else doing, or wanting to do, something similar?

Cheers!

Daniel

[u2nFT]

Just checked myself and found balbes150 with the best offerings. His approach makes it so that different distros work on different devices, which is awesome. The hangup, for me anyway, was the dtb image file -- could not make one work. But the project is yet young and shows much promise.

So try it, get yours debugged, then I'll copy what you did.

[yeahman45]

I managed to make boot up armbian but wifi does not work have you had success with wifi?

[trulio]

Hi, for your wifi issue, solution is here : https://forum.armbian.com/topic/1919...c-s805/?page=7