2013-11-09 Today, the Cubietruck, [0] that I've bought, arrived. After many months of consideration, with important help of Boris, I've fi- nally decided to order a Cubietruck, instead of a non-free RPi or the older Cubieboard2. The Cubietruck is brand new. This means, it's not yet as well supported as the Cubieboard2. In fact, there is no Cubian version for the Cubietruck available yet, only the one for the Cubieboard2. I don't plan to help developing such systems, I just want to have low-power-consumption hardware with enough performance for my low requirements. I want to have it mounted on the back of the monitor and running non-stop. Just like a terminal in the good old days of computing. ;-) The audio jack, VGA socket, and Wifi module ease the setup for me, thus the choice for the Cubietruck. I've bought a 16G microSD card, to store the system. I connected it with an external card reader to my notebook to store the cu- bieboard2 (!) system on the card: wget -c -O Cubian-base-r3-arm-a20.img.7z \ http://ubuntuone.com/7TINJQJ3aF3lrZP1SDd0Ai 7z x Cubian-base-r3-arm-a20.img.7z dd bs=4M /dev/sdc To use the VGA output, I needed to adjust the `screen0_output_type', as explained here. [1] I've used the sunxi-tools [2] for that. Then I was able to boot the system, log in, and use it ... but without networking. The first step is done. Further work will follow in the next days. (To mount the ext4 filesystem of the Cubian image on my notebook, I needed to recompile the kernel, enabling support for this filesystem.) [0] http://docs.cubieboard.org/products/start#cubietruck_cubieboard3 [1] http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/ct1/installation/install_lubuntu_desktop_server_to_sd_card#vga_output [2] http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-tools#fex2bin http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke