Based on our record, DietPi seems to be a lot more popular than CRUX Linux. While we know about 151 links to DietPi, we've tracked only 11 mentions of CRUX Linux. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I thought this was going to be related to Crux[0]. [0] https://crux.nu/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Name collision with https://crux.nu/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
>I think Arch and FreeBSD have a lot in common, Well yes sure, Arch was made with Crux in mind, and Crux is: https://crux.nu/ >>which is reflected in a straightforward tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Linux#History >>Inspired by CRUX, another minimalist distribution, Judd Vinet started the Arch Linux project in March 2002. The name was chosen because Vinet... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Most BSD-like GNU-system I know of would probably be CRUX though, but I haven't used that one in almost as long time. Source: over 1 year ago
I suggest you take a look at CRUX instead. Source: almost 2 years ago
The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_1/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
That's a good point, but the array of devices supported by the DietPi team is extensive: https://dietpi.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
I used dietpi [1] for similar reasons: a slim version of Debian, and with the defaults set to push all the logging into ram to minimize writes. Dietpi has opinionated defaults, for sure, but it's easy to choose something else (e.g. Dropbear is the default ssh server, but bumping to OpenSSH is a matter of changing a setting in the handy config tool). I've been running an RPi3 on an SD card as my secondary PiHole... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
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.... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
> 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/... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
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