Purpur VS DietPi

We will be downloading the Minecraft server files into this directory. To preface, there are numerous variations of server JARs that can be used (e.g. Spigot, Paper, Purpur each touting their own benefits). For this tutorial, we will be working with Paper, a fork of Spigot that is optimized for performance.

I Mostly Like Linux as a OS For a Server and PurpurMC (https://purpurmc.org) As a Server Software and i Mostly Use EssentialsX and WorldEdit and More Server Management Stuff.

If you prefer to go the old-school Bukkit/Spigot/Paper/Purpur route (which provides the greatest level of compatibility with pre-existing server plugins), I recommend the latter of the four. Each of these projects is a fork, built on each other in that same order. Each fork offers additional customisation, API, and performance enhancements over its predecessor.

I’d recommend Paper (which is a fork of spigot) or Purpur which is a fork of paper and pufferfish

If you're looking to re-add gravity duping I would recommend not using a plugin but switching your server software to PurpurMC. It is a fork/version of PaperMC that re-adds gravity duping as a config option as well as the ability to toggle back on things like tnt duping and several other features that the PaperMC devs arbitrarily decided were bugs (even though Mojang has explicitly not removed them).

Small addendum:\ If you want to keep using a paper derivative (as a drop-in replacement), you can use purpurMC instead. It provides a config option to enable gravity block duping by disabling sand.fix-duping. (At least for sand)

You can host a small purpur server

Have you tried re-downloading the latest purpur jar file from the purpur website?

tweak some configuration, try lower your entities spawn, I at last you might want to try PurPurMC for the server, it's paper fork with some modification, I feel a lot of improvement since using this fork...

DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi

That's a good point, but the array of devices supported by the DietPi team is extensive: https://dietpi.com/

Before someone starts the usual yadda yadda about the RPi biger community, the OS not having long time support etc. I would repeat one more time: do not rely on board vendor supplied images; this is valid for pretty much all boards. Just go to Armbian or DietPi pages and you'll almost certainly find one or more images that work on your board and forums to discuss about them with very knowledgeable people.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

https://dietpi.com/#download

Those projects are well worth a contribution, as they don't have a giant like Broadcom behind them.

> bananapi do a lot of boards but their software story has been a bit poor

This is quite common with other board manufacturers too. I'd rather suggest to ignore completely their cobbled together distros, often also tainted by proprietary modifications, that become unmaintained in a few years, and see if they're among the many supported by Armbian or DietPi.

https://www.armbian.com/download/

https://dietpi.com/#download

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_25/

RPi OS = diet pi https://dietpi.com/ - initial config via text file - SDcard burning out partially mitigated as writes log files to ram then flushes to SDcard reducing write cycles

You could also try very minimalistic distros like TwisterUI or DietPi which are most known for their use in the RasprebbyPi / SBC computers but which also have editions for desktop / laptop.