• minimal Debian 8 (Jessie) armhf Image
• using official Debian repositories (no Raspbian dependencies)
• architecture: ARMv7
• logterm supported Linux kernel versions
• default kernel: 3.4.111 (sunxi)
• optional kernel: 4.4.7 (mainline)
• init system: SysVinit (systemd also available in the repository)
• supporting the Banana Pi (M1), Banana Pi M1+, Banana Pro and BPI-R1 with just one single image
• separate image for the Banana Pi M2
• pre-configured with focus on performance and security
• consumes less than 25 MB of RAM on default install
• fits on a 2 GB SD card
• Docker support (Kernel 4.1 or later)
• binary compatible with all Raspbian (.deb) packages and binaries
• temperature probe ('lm-sensors' compatible)
• bananian-config: set up timezone, locales, hostname, root password, video acceleration, hardware platform, OTG port and expand filesystem
• bananian-update: upgrade your existing Bananian installation without losing any data or settings.

• SSH server (remote access/administration)
• NTP server (time synchronisation)
• haveged (entropy daemon)
• rsyslogd (syslog daemon)
• zsh (default shell with http://grml.org/zsh/ configuration, bash also available)
• htop (system monitor)
• bwm-ng (bandwidth monitor)
• screen (terminal multiplexer)
• swconfig (BCM53125 configuration tool for BPI-R1)

Use 'bananian-config' to adjust (most of) these parameters!

• hardened SSH configuration. Check https://bettercrypto.org/ for details
• ethernet: DHCP
• hostname: bananapi
• root password: pi (change this!)
• default locale: en_us
• time zone: UTC
• 'deadline' scheduler and 'noatime' mount option for root filesystem
• 512 MB swap file
• 'ondemand' CPU scheduler (600 to 1000 Mhz)
• ALSA default output is HDMI (see /etc/asound.conf)
• serial console enabled
• USB OTG host mode disabled
• Mali 400 video acceleration disabled (This makes a total of 970 MB RAM usable, if no video acceleration is required.)
• 8021q VLAN module enabled (but no VLAN configured)