Hi Roman, hi Chris,

>> Am 26.11.2025 um 22:45 schrieb Roman Riabenko via <[email protected]>:
>> I am looking for a small single board computer (SBC) which is well
>> supported to run Guix System on it now, or which is likely to become
>> supported after I purchase it, and which is likely to stay supported
>> for long.

I’ve been using an Olimex Olinuxino for years on my home network with Armbian
and I would looooove to have Guix System running on it.

I gave it a try… several times over the years, but failed. 😞
This has been discussed in several threads:

- [Cannot install Guix System on 
A20-OLinuXino-LIME2](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2024-12/msg00021.html)
- [Building a bootable disk image for 
A20-OLinuXino](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-01/msg00217.html)
- [`guix pull` fails on 
A20-OLinuXino-LIME2-eMMC](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2024-11/msg00142.html)
- [GuixSD on Olimex A20 
OLinuXino?](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-01/msg00362.html)


On Thu Nov 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM CET, Chris wrote:
> I am currently experimenting with guix on SBCs as well. I have an Orange pie
> zero 3 that is supposed to run CUPS to bring our printer into the network.
> The zero 3 is not (yet) supported by upstream guix but after some initial
> confusion it was not to bad to write the necessary packages. I think as long
> as your SBC is supported by Linux-(libre)-mainline you should not run into any
> issues in the long run.  I plan on updating the device by building an image
> with „guix system image“ and then writing that to the sd card. That way I
> don’t have to build software on the SBC.

Updating by running `guix system image` and writing/swapping a SDCard would be
even better than trying to install it on Armbian or updating it "in place".

And I would also happily spend a few coins on a SBC that can run Guix System.
… and few others for one that can run Guix System/Hurd, but that’s a totally
different topic! 😁

Regards,

--
Tanguy

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