I haven't tried bananian myself, but the debian version for the Orange pi is defintly awesome! http://www.armbian.com/orange-pi/
I am using the CLI Debian Wheezy myself to run a small server, there is also Debian Jessie available, and an ubuntu version.
From the ARMBIAN-ROM I picked out the orangepi.bin (which is linked from script.bin) made a Fex - changed the values so I have my double Monitor System again - made a script.bin and