DietPi Reviews and Details

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• How to Run a Web Server on 27MB of RAM (and a Solar Panel)

  Start with a minimal image like DietPi or build a custom image with Buildroot. The key is disabling everything you don't need:. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• DietPi released a new version v10.2

  The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v10_2/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025

  In addition to https://armbian.com one could also cross check with Diet-Pi, which got resurrected from dormancy sometime in the last years. https://dietpi.com. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• DietPi released a new version v10.0

  Raspberry Pi Imager: Support of DietPi as a selectable “Other general-purpose OS” The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v10_0/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Compare Single Board Computers

  Https://dietpi.com/#download Things may differ a bit in the educational field because of the vast community the RPi has, but Linux is Linux, I don't see why a school shouldn't use a different platform and make the solution of problems, if any, part of the learning process. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse

  There is also https://dietpi.com/#downloadinfo <- click through to OrangePI and then the model. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Turn Any Bluetooth Speaker into an AirPlay Speaker with Shairport Sync

  Got a mini-PC, SBC, or Raspberry Pi speaker lying around? You can pair it with a Bluetooth speaker to create your own AirPlay receiver, letting you stream music from any Apple device. This guide uses DietPi and Shairport Sync to build a dedicated, budget-friendly audio streamer. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• DietPi released a new version 9.7

  The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_7/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Resources to Get Started with RaspberryPi?

  Checkout DietPi, simplifies configuration, logging, software install and much more. https://dietpi.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC

  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... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Anyone knows where to buy a cheap Linux box?

  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. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• 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 / over 2 years 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 / over 2 years 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 / over 2 years 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 / over 2 years 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 / over 2 years ago

• DietPi released a new version 8.25

  The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_25/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Looking for a way to remote in to K's of raspberry pi's...

  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. Source: over 2 years ago

• Laptop so slow that even XFCE is laggy. What distro could run better?

  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. Source: over 2 years ago

• Raspberry Pi 5 drops codec hardware acceleration except for HEVC decode

  The thing you are looking for can be achieved by buying something on the DietPi hardware compatibility list. https://dietpi.com/ I personally have had good luck with NanoPi boards from that list. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Show HN: WireHole New UI Makes Managing WireGuard Clients Easy

  - AdGuard, as a replacement of PiHole, never went back Every time I tried to move it to a container-based solution (Portainer is quite helpful), I went into problems here and there, adding more complexcity in terms of another network layer, container volumes, updating with dependencies in view. Is it me getting old and lazy? Anyway, travelling around the globe being able to surf via homeland ip ranges, reverse... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago