<story><title>Asus Release Raspberry Pi Competitor Tinkerboard 2 and 2S</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tinkerboard-2-and-tinkerboard-2s-announced</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>What OS is it compatible with?&lt;p&gt;I learned from version 1 that even though the specs may beat a rasperry the software eco system is worth a lot too</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>terminalcommand</author><text>I bought the first version.&lt;p&gt;It supports a special version of debian and android. There are third party OSs too, but they don’t have good driver support.&lt;p&gt;The biggest issue is that tinkerboard uses Malİ GPU and its driver is propriatery.&lt;p&gt;I bought the tinkerboard as a media device hyped up about x265 capabilities and 192khz&amp;#x2F;24 bit audio. The x265 playback only worked with the bundled media player, which was buggy.&lt;p&gt;Software-wise I haven’t been happy, hardware-wise it was better than a raspberry pi.</text></comment>
<story><title>Asus Release Raspberry Pi Competitor Tinkerboard 2 and 2S</title><url>https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tinkerboard-2-and-tinkerboard-2s-announced</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Havoc</author><text>What OS is it compatible with?&lt;p&gt;I learned from version 1 that even though the specs may beat a rasperry the software eco system is worth a lot too</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msh</author><text>Based on my tinkerboard s it does not really matter. Their software support is just plain bad, even in 3rd party distros.</text></comment>