Porteus VS DietPi

Porteus Reviews

DietPi Reviews

Porteus mentions (5)

• I want to have a USB specifically for linux andI dontknow what size

  There are lighter options, Porteus can is ~300MB for a desktop system. Source: over 1 year ago

• I’m bored of windows. And I know almost nothing about coding or the command line. I want to run a distro off a USB, what should I choose?

  Porteus is also designed for this purpose. Loads into RAM and is very fast. Source: almost 2 years ago

• I just bought an old USB key and found two partitions one is empty and the other contains a picture of a couple does anyone recognizes the couple or have any info that can help me find its owner.

  Or use a disposable os in a usb key like this one http://porteus.org/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• A distro to run out of an USB stick

  Porteus is what I've been playing with, as it is impressively tiny, but there are many options. Source: over 2 years ago

• Old 32-bit machines - How can we best keep them relevant?

  Porteus seems to be still supporting 32 bits. Source: over 2 years ago

DietPi mentions (151)

• DietPi released a new version 9.1

  The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_1/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi

  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

• Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi

  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

• The Orange Pi 5

  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 / 4 months ago

• OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi

  > 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