Nothing changed at all

• SFoX

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  Joined: 2025-01-24 12:28

  2025-06-05 20:46

  Hello,
  
  Back on January 29, 2025, I already pointed out that the Luckfox Omni 3576 comes with an extremely outdated kernel [LINK], an obsolete operating system, an immutable root filesystem, and a hard bootloader lock. At the time, I was promised that work was being done to address these issues.
  I put the device in storage to wait until you had patched it to a usable state.
  
  That was five months ago. Unfortunately, I can't see that anything has changed. I still can't update the system (apt update && upgrade).
  I still can't decide myself what the bootloader should load, because there's a hardcoded bootloader sitting on top of U-Boot (so I cannot install other ARM based Linux systems).
  
  The image you provide is still Debian 12 and still the file from January 7, 2025 – which clearly shows that no development has happened at all.
  
  That means this device is only suitable for tinkerers who have no expectations of actually interacting with the system. For companies, this is an absolute no-go device. Since it can't be updated, it leaves the system wide open to attackers. Using a device like this is basically begging to get hacked.
  
  And the wiki say´es, it still requires Python 2 just to pull the dev kit. Which is comical.
  And I still find no new DTS or DTSi files in it to compile a newer Kernel (or ANY Kernel that is not 6.1).
  
  Ya, what a shame. Literally nothing has changed. Not one bit.
  In my thread from January 29, I asked whether the project was already dead — because it had just hit the market, yet came with catastrophically outdated software.
  Even though you assured me that the journey was just beginning, it turns out my instincts were right after all.
  A stillbirth.

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