The purpose of this image is to test if users who value free/open technologies could have a usable desktop-experience (including latest security patches) with this.
New in Version v0.2
This release comes with linux kernel 6.12.93, patched by r0b0 (https://github.com/r0b0/visionfive2-linux) preinstalled. His repository come preconfigured for further updates. Lightdm is the default desktop manager
It is based on the 2025-10 release image from starfivetech (https://debian.starfivetech.com/).
Login-Information:
User: user
Password: starfive
See README.md (https://github.com/ilrehr/starfive) for more information.
(the filename is wrong: gpu hardware acceleration is not supported)
To create the zipfile, download the 2 .part files, navigate to their directory and run:
cat starfive-visionfive2-jh7110-1.3b-debianonly-trixie-with-gpusupport-v0.2.tar.gz.part-* > starfive-image.tar.gz
Verify your combined Zipfile with:
sha256sum starfive-image.tar.gz
and compare it with checksum.txt