Re: [Review] Apollo BTC - Full Node + Miner in a box

I wonder what their OS based on? I don't expect stuff break easily if it's based on conservative OS (such as Debian and Rocky Linux).

No need to wonder! It's Armbian. I will boot my 'stock microSD' later to check again what exact version it is and add it in the original post. I think it's even the latest LTS version, but just a lot of packages are outdated.

Could you check the exact version and variant? From armbian page for Orange Pi 4[1], their latest OS is either based on Debian Bullseye. Ubuntu Focal and Ubuntu Jammy. NodeJS version on those OS are 10.19.0[2], 12.22.5[3] and 12.22.9[4]. I find it's hard to believe Armbian more conservative than Debian.

[1] https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-4/#kernels-archive-all
[2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/nodejs
[3] https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/nodejs
[4] https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/web/nodejs

Sure, so on my custom install, I used the latest available Armbian:

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Welcome to Armbian 22.05.1 Bullseye with Linux 5.15.35-rockchip64

It ships with outdated nodeJS, interestingly. It had EOL in April, but since I have no nodeJS services running on the custom install anyway, it should be fine. In any case, as soon as you install something that runs on node, all install guides tell you to update nodeJS, so it will be fine.

Code:

~:% node --version
v12.22.5

But if I boot the latest Futurebit OS - released over half a year ago (12/17/21) - I get this login screen. It's 5 releases behind on the Linux kernel and behind by one major Debian version.

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Welcome to Armbian 21.05.1 Focal with Linux 5.10.35-rockchip64

~# node --version
v14.16.1
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Interestingly, it comes with nodeJS v14, but then I don't understand why on GitHub, I was told that

Quote from: https://github.com/jstefanop/apolloui/issues/6#issuecomment-1150699810

Try to use Node version 9

Quote from: https://github.com/jstefanop/apolloui/issues/6#issuecomment-1153498274

By now it's the only way

Compilation on the latest nodeJS version didn't work; hence I went on GitHub to ask.
I will try again with nodeJS 14, which is by the way the oldest LTS version of node ('Maintenance LTS' phase) and will be updated for just another 10 months.
It would be much preferred to have ApolloUI be able to run on 16.x or 18.x, though.