I just bought a 2nd-hand CubieTruck which apparently has a cubieboard 3. The cubieboard.org website is a shit-show of dead links. There are some docs but all the drivers and software are dead links. No Android or Debian images. It’s also a shit-show over at archive.org:
There is a tree of directories here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20180225200418/http://dl.cubieboard.org/
but 404 errors on all files. In principle, softwareheritage.org should have the software. But it doesn’t because (I suspect) s/w heritage fixates on github and probably needed someone to manually request that they keep software outside of Microsoft’s walled garden.
I don’t suppose anyone has cubieboard 3 files… but in the very least I hope this post will serve to warn ppl to avoid cubieboard.
I’ll mention https://armbian.com/boards/cubietruck as that’s probably the best SW source for most boards. No idea if hw docs were stashed by someone.
Thanks! That was helpful!
Yeah, use Armbian. And Debian mainline and Arch Linux (ARM variant) run on the Cubietruck as well. Most of the stuff has been mainlined. I just can’t get graphics acceleration working. Other than that you could just install any regular Linux distribution. If you’re willing to put in the extra effort to deal with u-boot or whatever we use these days and the other effort involved to put Linux on an ARM computer. There’s info on their Wikis. And https://linux-sunxi.org/ has some information as well. Most of the times general instructions for A20 boards apply.