Based on our record, DietPi seems to be a lot more popular than ESPRESSObin. While we know about 151 links to DietPi, we've tracked only 3 mentions of ESPRESSObin. 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.
You should definitly check Odroid SBCs their sbcs are super power efficient also. also look into http://espressobin.net/ its a cpu designed for nas uses so will be good for ftp server. Source: over 1 year ago
The SG-2100, SG-3100 and SG-6100 come from Silicom. The SG-1100 is a variation of a Marvell ESPRESSObin. Source: almost 3 years ago
Question is how much do you want to spend on extra hardware. For example BPI-M2 Ultra has additional SATA port and you'll only need cable or sth like Marvell ESPRESSObin. Source: about 3 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 / 3 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 / 3 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
Intel NUC - Intel NUCs are available as Kits(Barebones), Boards(Mainbaord only) and as perconfigured Mini-PCs.
TinyCore - Simple operating system based on Linux that uses "modules", and loads everything into RAM. Can be persistent too.
esp32 - A very cheap small chip, compatible with Arduino.
FatDog64 - FatDog64 is the lightweight 64-bit multi-user Linux distribution.
Intel NUC boards - Four-by-four inch Intel NUC boards come with a soldered-on processor.
Plop Linux - Plop Linux is a small distribution built from scratch that can boot from CD, DVD, USB flash drive...