the team of the Bananian Linux project is pleased to announce the release of Bananian Linux 16.04 for Banana Pi (and family). This update improves mainline Linux kernel support (4.4.x) along with a lot of bugfixes and minor improvements.
We are supporting the Banana Pi, Banana Pi M1+, BPI-R1 and some other A20 boards with just one single image. The Banana Pi M2 requires a separate image which also has been updated. See https://www.bananian.org/hardware for more information.
Existing Bananian installations can easily be upgraded without losing any data or settings.
Users of Bananian 14.09 or later can upgrade their existing installation using 'bananian-update'. Users of Bananian 14.08, see: https://www.bananian.org/upgrade​
About Bananian
Bananian Linux is a pre-installed Debian 8 image optimized for Banana Pi. It uses the official Debian Jessie armhf repositories with a kernel and bootmanager (u-boot), customized for Banana Pi.
It supports the Banana Pi (M1, M1+), Banana Pro, BPI-R1 and some other A20 boards with just one single image. A separate image for the Banana Pi M2 is also available.
The main focus is to provide a lightweight headless platform for home servers, small webservers, cloud hosting, Linux based wifi access points, router, NAS systems, monitoring devices, etc.
Bananian Linux is a pre-installed Debian 8 image optimized for Banana Pi. It uses the official Debian Jessie armhf repositories with a kernel and bootmanager (u-boot), customized for Banana Pi.
A Debian 7/Wheezy image (Bananian 15.04) is also available and maintained.
We support the Banana Pi (M1, M1+), Banana Pro and BPI-R1 with just one single image.
The main focus is to provide a lightweight headless platform for home servers, small webservers, ownCloud hosting, Linux based wifi access points, router, NAS systems, monitoring devices, etc.