I’m in the same boat - last update 11/17 - My hope is that there is a large consignment of packages all labeled ready for the shipper to pick them up. Once they are picked up by DHL it should move along. I ordered in June 2021 so actual progress is an improvement (such as a shipping label) . The A04 model number buyers are the last in line so at least we have a notice of an intent to ship.
Hooray, DHL just picked up in China! Hopefully the whole batch was picked up and everyone will start getting tracking updates for A06 units.
12 days no update on the status. Can we have any official statement for all open deliveries?
I just checked my DHL status after I saw your post and I have an actual delivery date now, of December 3rd. [A06 4GB going to west coast US]
Maybe all the ones going out to America (or at least regions within) were delayed and grouped together.
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No update from Fedex yet since the 17th Nov.
Estimated delivery date: Pending
Shipping label has been created. The status will be updated when shipment begins to travel.
Yep! DHL package now at sort facility - Dec 3 estimated delivery date - confetti in the air… now if I can find a CM3 - finally found a review on the forum - A06 is a unique processor and loading programs must be done from source - whereas the CM3 can use a package manager … live and learn.
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Compiling! Oh boy! 
As long as it works in the end I guess it’ll be OK.
Also saw movement from DHL this morning. Yay! 
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Can we have an update on A04 shipping status for the EU? It would be very nice if I could expect to have mine in my hands during my December/January winter holiday off of work, when I’ll have plenty of free time to mess around with it. Understandable if that’s not how it goes, but I’d just appreciate having an idea of whether that is a realistic expectation for A04 shipping or not.
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A06 is a unique processor and loading programs must be done from source - whereas the CM3 can use a package manager
what do you mean by that?
ClockworkOS is based on raspbian and the DevTerm page explicitly states “For more supported software list, please refer to the repositories of Debian 64-bit ARM.” - so you should be able to use the apt package manager to install software.
It might get a bit tricky to use third party binaries that only come as armhf.
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TBF most of the time compiling just means downloading a source tarball, extracting it, and issuing “make install clean” at a bash.
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Just repeating findings from a review done and posted on the DevTerm group Cm3 vs A06… I’ll know in a few days…
I hope what you say is true! but here is the review -
I also (selfishly) hope that the community continues to share findings and details about what they get working on the non-CM3 devices (and how!) I suspect a number of us soon to be A06/A04 owners are no strangers to linux, command lines, compiling, etc. But I definitely appreciate the folks who spend a lot of time reverse engineering things, porting things, and figuring things out and posting pointers on how they got things working. Personally I’d rather have those pointers and guidance than trying to figure out everything from scratch myself (and be largely unware of what might even be possible).
For instance, there is a thread somewhere in the forum where it was shown how to install other architecture components so Raspberry Pi executables could be run directly on the DevTerm without recompiling. (It was in regard to Pico-8 since the source isn’t available for that and it wouldn’t run directly on the DevTerm, but I’m guessing the same method should work for a lot of other stuff too.)
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I made that video. That’s a bit of a misunderstanding. The A06 Armbian has a regular debian packet manager. You can do a “apt get-install” for a whole bunch of software just fine.
It gets tricky if you want to used software that is not covered by the package manager. TIC-80 being an example. You can‘t use the Rasberry build. You can‘t use the Linux build. You‘ll need to compile from the source.
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LOL well that’s how it SHOULD work. But in my experience it’s almost never like this. They don’t call it “Dependency Hell” because it’s nice and simple.
Well it looks like my A06 has moved, Fedex now have it and it’s on it’s way.
Here in the UK I’ve had a text from fedex with an expected delivery date, nothing yet about customs charges.
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Same here, it is on the move. 
It is pretty simple if you just make sure you downloaded the dependencies too 
Same here, after twelve days I have a delivery date (3 Dec). There’s a light at the end of the tunnel guys!
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Thanks ! I’m not going to install anything crazy - mainly radio programming software, digital mode communication software for ham radio, and some software defined radio programs…
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