I have experienced some, but not all, of the problems described in the first post. @Mindee: I urge Friendly Arm to do a better job developing the Ubuntu-MATE operating system for the A64. This is an excellent alternative to the Raspberry Pi 3, but Ubuntu-CORE will not work for many people. Supplying...

I have been using the new NanoPi A64 with the Ubuntu-Mate build dated 20161129. I was experiencing some strange issues until I realized that the file /etc/hosts was empty. This is usually populate with at least the loopback address, like this: ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost Leaving this file empt...