Bananian Linux 16.04 released - 2016-04-23 - Works on Orange PI

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Bananian Linux 16.04 released - 2016-04-23

The team of the Bananian Linux project is pleased to announce the release of Bananian Linux 16.04 for Banana Pi (and family). This update improves mainline Linux kernel support (4.4.x) along with a lot of bugfixes and minor improvements.

We are supporting the Banana Pi, Banana Pi M1+, Banana Pro, BPI-R1 and some other A20 boards with just one single image.
The Banana Pi M2 requires a separate image which also has been updated.
See https://www.bananian.org/hardware for more information.

Existing Bananian installations can easily be upgraded without losing any data or settings.

Release notes:
- [Kernel] provide Linux 4.4.x packages
- [Userland] package bananian-update as a .deb file
- [General] Kernel Update Script and other stuff as an apt repository
- [Kernel] enable audio on Linux 4.x
- [Hardware] Fixed: bananian-hardware does not work on Linux 4.x
- [Userland] Introduce “bananian-settings”
- [Kernel] Update Kernel 3.4.x to 3.4.111
- [Kernel] Division by zero in kernel. (3.4.90+)
- [Hardware] update FAQ, pmutemp and soctemp related to Kernel 4.x
- [General] Update U-Boot
- [Kernel] Removing 4.2 kernel packages result in unbootable system
- [Userland] rsyslog spams logs with “rsyslogd-2007: action …“
- [Kernel] HDMI output turns off on inactivity
- [Kernel] Support for 8 channels hdmi

For a list of all changes see the Bananian 16.04 changelog:
https://dev.bananian.org/changelog_page.php?version_id=13

To get Bananian 16.04:
In order to download Bananian 16.04, visit:
https://www.bananian.org/download

Users of Bananian 14.09 or later can upgrade their existing installation using 'bananian-update'.
Users of Bananian 14.08, see: https://www.bananian.org/upgrade