Armbian Imager 2.0 release supports over 300 boards from 64 SBC vendors, custom user profiles
Armbian Imager 2.0 release supports over 300 boards from 64 SBC vendors, custom user profiles
Publish Date: 2026-06-08 03:30:00
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The Armbian community has just released the Armbian Imager 2.0 GUI program to easily flash pre-built Armbian-built Ubuntu or Debian images for over 338 boards from 64 SBC vendors. The new version features a slick user interface rewritten from scratch and implements custom user profiles in the settings with username and password, SSH key, Wi-Fi network credentials and country code, timezone, locale, and shell. That means the board is ready to use after flashing. In some ways it’s similar to the Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0, except it covers a much broader ecosystem of single board computers.
To be honest, I had no idea Armbian had an imager so far. The last time I used an Armbian image, I downloaded it directly from their website and used USB Imager or another tool to flash it to a microSD card slot. So it’s a good opportunity to check out the Armbian Imager 2.0 program by downloading and installing it on my laptop.
It’s available for Linux x64/arm64 (Raspberry Pi), Windows x64/arm64, macOS x64 and Arm (Apple M1-M4). I installed it on a laptop running Ubuntu 24.04. Some UI features include dark theme selection and eighteen languages automatically selected from your locale.
Manufacturer list
The first step is to select the board’s manufacturer, and the platinum vendors, who sponsor the Armbian project, come first. I went with Radxa.
We’re now shown a list of boards from the manufacturer, again listed by level of support with four levels: Platinum, Standard, Community, WIP. I selected the Rock 5B Plus SBC.
In the next step, we can select the operating system, again with a list of images that can be filtered by “Stable”, “Rolling Release”, “Apps”, and “Minimal”. The “Apps” filter will show specific images such as Kali Linux, Home Assistant, OpenMediaVault, etc. I went with the Armbian 26.2.6 GNOME image above.
Up next is storage device selection with the system device hidden by device. My 16GB microSD card was properly detected, and after…
