Cubietruck


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Cubietruck

FreedomBox Danube Edition

FreedomBox Danube Edition

FreedomBox Danube Edition is a custom casing around Cubietruck and an SSD-hard drive.

Cubietruck / Cubieboard3

Cubietruck (Cubieboard3) is a single board computer with very good performance compared to many other boards. FreedomBox images are built for this device.

Important: Read general advice about hardware before building a FreedomBox with this single board computer.

Download

FreedomBox SD card images are provided for this hardware. These SD card images are meant for use with the on-board SD card slot and do not work when used with a separate SD card reader connected via USB.

An alternative to downloading these images is to install Debian on the Cubietruck and then install FreedomBox on it.

Availability

Cubietruck / Cubieboard3

Hardware

  • Open Hardware: No

  • CPU: Allwinner A20, ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1GHz dual-core

  • RAM: 2 GiB DDR3 @ 480 MHz

  • Storage: 8 GB NAND flash built-in, 1x microSD slot

  • Architecture: armhf

  • Ethernet: 10/100/1000, RJ45

  • WiFi: Broadcom BCM4329/BCM40181 (no free WiFi drivers + firmware available)

  • SATA: 1x 2.0 port

Non-Free Status

  • Non-free blobs required: ?

  • WiFi: no free WiFi drivers + firmware available

Known Issues

  • The on-board WiFi does not work with free software. A separate USB WiFi device is recommended.