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DietPi
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MichaIng / DietPi

DietPi

Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!

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Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 11:34:28 AM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2021-11-14 16:37:37 UTC to 2026-09-13 12:15:45 UTC.

0510152021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 6 submissions, 8 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 13 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 8 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 9 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 5 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1468
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15132
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC981
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC990
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC550

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StephanStS·Nov 20, 2022Submission

DietPi released a new version 8.11

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 main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ The project released the new version DietPi v8.11 on November 19th, 2022. The highlights of this version are: NanoPi R5Snow supported New Software Homer to build up a nice homepage as a dashboard Shairport Sync, NoMachine, HAProxy, Grafana: Changed to use the latest version for installation Nextcloud 32 bit support for Nextcloud 25 Quartz64, Rock 3A, ASUS Tinkerboard, NanoPi NEO3, NanoPi R2S/R4Swith improved support
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resp. bugfixing bugfixes forNavidrome, Home Assistant, DietPi-DDNS, Go, Roon Bridge/Roon Server, Koel, Deluge, Xfce, owncloud/Nextcloud The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_11/
1 points · Open discussion
StephanStS·Oct 24, 2022Submission

DietPi released a new version 8.10

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 main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ The project released the new version DietPi v8.10 on October 22th, 2022. The highlights of this version are: Radxa ROCK 3A now supported Amiberry, vaultwarden, Sqeezelize, Shairport Sync, GMediaRender: Changed to use the latest version for installation Home Assistant now includes Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) integration by default bugfixes for Dietpi-Drive_Manager, FreshRSS, Roon Bridge and Cloudshell The full
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release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_10/
14 points · Open discussion
StephanStS·Sep 30, 2022Submission

DietPi released a new version 8.9

DietPi released a new version 8.9 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 main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ The project released the new version DietPi v8.9 on September 24th, 2022. The highlights of this version are: HAProxy, phpBB, NoMachine: Changed to use the latest version for installation bugfixes for Amiberry and ownCloud Replaced raspberrypi-sys-mods package, skipping parts needless on an Raspberry Pi hardware Enabled Ethernet LEDs on NanoPi R5S bugfixes for Dietpi-Drive_Manager, D
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ietpi-Software, Dietpi-Imager and Dietpi-Installer The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_9/
2 points · Open discussion
StephanStS·Jul 6, 2022Submission

DietPi released a new version 8.6

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 main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ The project released the new version DietPi v8.6 on July 2nd, 2022. The highlights of this version are: New hardware support for PINE64 Quartz64 Model A, Quartz64 Model B and the SOQuartz Compute Module. Prometheus Node Exporter for hardware and OS metrics including HAProxy support. Tailscale, a free cloud-hosted VPN service option. ZeroTier, another free cloud-hosted VPN service. Rclone, quasi the "rsync for cloud s
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torage". PiVPN with unattended first boot installation. Amiberry updated to latest version (5.3). The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_6/
2 points · Open discussion
DietPi·Jul 3, 2022
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems but with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but enables you to easily install complete and ready-to-use server software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts. Read all info at https://dietpi.com/. The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
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DietPi·May 29, 2022
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems but with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but enables you to easily install complete and ready-to-use server software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts. Read all info at https://dietpi.com/. The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
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StephanStS·May 5, 2022Submission

DietPi released a new version 8.4

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 main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ The project released the new version DietPi v8.4 on April 30th, 2022. The highlights of this version are: It comes long with new images with updated Linux version for Odroid XU4 and NanoPi 2 series. We replaced the confusing "Preference" menus in DietPi-Software with on demand dependency choices. You can now disable APT list compression in DietPi-Config to speed up APT package installations at the cost of increased disk writ
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es and usage. An issue has been solved where after the upgrade to Linux v5.15 the network connection could have failed. The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_4/
1 points · Open discussion
DietPi·May 1, 2022
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems but with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to easily install complete and ready-to-use server software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts. Read all info at https://dietpi.com/. The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
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StephanStS·Feb 8, 2022
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 main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ The project released the new version DietPi v8.1 on February 5th, 2022. The highlights of this version are: A new image for Hardkernel's Odroid N2(+) SBC has been generated, which is now based on the mainline kernel Linux 5.10, built by Armbian, updated to next LTS 5.15 soon. A new image generation method, powered by debootstrap and own U-Boot configurations, allows for cleaner and more consistent U-Boot based SBC images in the
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future. The DietPi drive manager and backup tools received enhanced dialogs and process indications. The DietPi software installation tool got some general enhancements regarding cgroups for container platforms like Docker, K3s and the upcoming MicroK8s, as well as IPv6 and nf_tables support for iptables, used by VPN servers, WiFi and Tor hotspot implementations. The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_1/
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DietPi·Feb 6, 2022
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems but with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to easily install complete and ready-to-use server software stacks with a set of console/whiptail based shell dialogs and scripts. Read all info at https://dietpi.com/. The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
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