uConsole os Images

[mikeschnier]

Hey, I just know enough to be dangerous. I think the path of least resistance right now is to use the Debian Bookworm Lite image and install the desktop environment that you want on top of it.

[M3l0nh3ad]

see i learn something new all the time lol… this one statement showed me that last night when i was on full and tried to do tasksel and select a different environment it pissed off all sorts of things had the uConsole screaming every move i made on screen, that maybe I should of tried it on lite… Very Helpful!

[crossplatformdev]

Hi, everyone!

I have cooked this Ubuntu image for uConsole CM4 variant.

Ubuntu 22.04.4 for uConsole CM4 (flashable .xz image)

Hi, everyone! I have tailored a script to build an Ubuntu image for the uConsole, CM4 variant. I made it using the kernel provided by @ak-rex, which already does incorporate the drivers for it. https://github.com/crossplatformdev/uConsole-Image-Builder The script is just in case you want to cook the image by yourselves. It takes around 2h30m and 3 hours to complete. (Just the Ubuntu image is tested, for the moment. You all are very welcome to try and finish the Debian and the Armbian build) …

Please be nice to the new kid in the block and give it a try.

Enjoy!

[nrs]

Hello everyone, I recently received my UConsole and I wanted to ask if there is an OS image that is commonly agreed upon to be the most stable/fast? I am planning on utilizing the microSD port to have multiple OS flavors on multiple smaller sized cards, but I also want to use a high-capacity card as a “master” drive with my daily driver OS. For the time being I have tested the official OS build as well as the Kali build, I had limited success with Kali so I am sticking with the main OS for now. Happy Gregorian New Year, by the way!

[adcockm]

Rex’s Debian Bookworm is essentially the same as the “official” OS, but it’s not outdated, can be upgraded properly, and doesn’t have bugs/issues with battery charging and some other things, unlike the official OS.

Bookworm 6.6.y for the uConsole and DevTerm

UPDATE: CM5 Image Available! Works on both the CM4 and CM5 you just need to edit the config.txt for the CM and panel you are using. Audio does not work on the CM5 Raspberry Pi needs to finish the driver for it and it looks like they might not do it, so let them know you want pwm audio on the CM5 finished. Link Here, Let them know nicely I had to change the timing on the panel to get it to work with the new RP1 chip in the CM5 but I did it to where it’s now compatible with both the CM4 and CM5 …

There are lots of others, of course, depending on the flavor of Linux you like. Most are linked in relatively active posts in this forum, so searching should find them. Besides Kali, I’ve seen Arch, PostmarketOS (which seems popular among those who got the 4G cellular and want to try to use it like a “phone”), Parrot (which I think was a version of some other flavor of Linux for pentesting?), Ubuntu (possibly several different builds, I forget), and probably a few others I’m not remembering. Chances are if there’s one you’re interested in, a search would turn it up here. And some people have posted a lot of detail about how they created their OS builds so that info could probably be used and adapted to get other, different versions of Linux working as well if you’re comfortable with that sort of thing, (I’m not, but I’m glad others are!)