Hello,

This is my first post on this forum, so forgive me for any unintended faux pas.

First off, I realize that this board is EOL for some time. That also means that a lot of distribution support is going away, case in point: Armbian.

Slackware has a reputation for supporting older hardware that is no longer being manufactured. Slackware also recently released it's first stable release in 6 years, which will get patches for many years to come.

I have a NanoPi NEO Core2 board that I still use for projects. I recently created a dedicated Internet-radio and music-player box with it. The Ethernet cable is hard-wired to the pins, and I added a 3.5mm audio jack as well. It runs slarm64 (an unofficial port of Slackware to aarch64 and other architectures) with no issues at all, and is very stable.

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I am working on a stable release image for this board, however the ones I currently have up here:

https://slarmboards.3space.xyz/nanopi-neo-core2/

work just fine and can be set to either the stable (15.0) or development (-current) repositories, depending on your use case.

Adding the support for this board was not as hard as I expected. If you have a similar board that you would like to port slarm64 to, I might be able to help, but there are no guarantees. I was pleasantly surprised when I got this to work, quite honestly.

Anyway, I just wanted to post this here so that anyone else with this particular board has another OS option available to them.

Thanks for reading.