DietPi

Lightweight justice for your single-board computer! (by MichaIng)

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  • Ask HN: Resources to Get Started with RaspberryPi?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2024
    Checkout DietPi, simplifies configuration, logging, software install and much more.

    https://dietpi.com/

  • DietPi released a new version 9.6
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2024
    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

  • The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2024
    Please, keep in mind that the usual story "other boards don't have decent Linux support/community" is simply not true. Here are Armbian and DietPi pages where you can find images with mainline support for a lot of common boards, including forums. Images supplied by the board manufacturer should rather be intended for quick testing only as you can't count on their support; just ignore them and go straight to Armbian or DietPi sites, and consider contributing for their hard work.

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

    https://dietpi.com/#download

  • Ask HN: Anyone knows where to buy a cheap Linux box?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2024
    Dietpi[0] is pretty good (debian-based) distro that works out of the box with minimal configuration.

    It was originally designed for a RPi's (I think), but it's expanded to tons of other devices. Here you can see a benchmark of each supported device and decide yourself what you want to go for[1].

    0: https://dietpi.com/#download

    1: https://dietpi.com/survey/#benchmark

  • Home Lab Guide
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2024
  • DietPi – Highly optimised minimal Debian OS
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
  • DietPi released a new version 9.1
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024
    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

  • Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
    That's a good point, but the array of devices supported by the DietPi team is extensive: https://dietpi.com/
  • The Orange Pi 5
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2024
    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.

  • OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2024
    > 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

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MichaIng/DietPi is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.

DietPi is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of DietPi is Shell.


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