I recently received my first Radxa Rock3A which I am using as a home server. It is doing fine serving the 10TB of media, etc., that I need help with.
What I’d like to know is, how difficult is it to port things to the RK3568 from existing linux, e.g., Raspberry Pi sources. I just found something called CasaOS which is fascinating, but is only set-up for the Pi and X86 hardware. If it can be adapted/cross-compiled or whatever, it would run like a champ on my severely under-employed Rock3A.
Same os, different silicon. Unless CasaOs is done with python or perl a cpu specific version will be required, or so it seems to me. Mere OS compatability seems to be insufficient.
Software supports hardware and not the other way around? AFAIK (Canonical) Ubuntu only supports Raspberry Pi (and few others) and already there does the job poor. Most of other OS-es for Rpi are better.
@SFarber If you find Casa user interface cool, install it and use it. It will work on Armbian Linux the same (good or bad) as on Raspberry Pi Linux (Raspbian / RaspberryPi OS).
Casa software runs inside Docker (x86 or arm64) container so you don’t need to worry about.
from glancing over its github, it seems like a go application that they have compiled binaries for x86_64, arm64 and arm32. its not an actual os. as long as docker is able to run in your sbc, you will be able to run the casaos
AFAIK (Canonical) Ubuntu only supports Raspberry Pi (and few others) and already there does the job poor. Most of other OS-es for Rpi are better.