DietPi is great!

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Teppichbrand@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Do you guys use DietPi to selfhost? I use it on two Raspberry Pi, just installed it on a Wyse mini-PC and I think it’s really great:

Truly Optimised DietPi is an extremely lightweight Debian OS, highly optimised for minimal CPU and RAM resource usage, ensuring your SBC always runs at its maximum potential.

Simple interface DietPi programs use lightweight Whiptail menus. Spend less time staring at the command line, more time enjoying your Pi.

DietPi-Software Quickly and easily install popular software “ready to run” and optimised for your system. Only the software you need is installed.

DietPi-Config Quickly and effortlessly customise your device’s hardware and software settings for your needs, including network connection and localisation setup.

DietPi-Backup Quickly and easily backup or restore your DietPi system.

Logging System Choices You decide how much logging you need. Get a performance boost with DietPi-RAMlog, or, rsyslog and logrotate for log critical servers.

DietPi-Services Control Control which installed software has higher or lower priority levels: nice, affinity, policy scheduler and more.

DietPi-Update System DietPi automatically checks for updates and informs you when they are available. Update instantly, without having to write a new image.

DietPi-Automation Allows you to completely automate a DietPi installation with no user input. Simply by configuring dietpi.txt before powering on.

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AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I run it for my pi-hole. It’s been great. It tells you when there are package updates when you log in, which I find helpful.

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- chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  A gui is unnecessary for something like pi-hole. As for updates, you can easily automate installation of security updates via unattended-upgrades.
  
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  - AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Given pihole’s recent record with updates, I’m not sure I want them firing automatically.
    
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- BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Got a tutorial link to set up the piehole with it? In the process of setting up my piehole with the default instructions from their website.
  
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  - c24w@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Fash DietPi
    
    Boot
    
    Run dietpi-software
    
    Search for pi-hole
    
    Select and install
    
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  - Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Dietpi.com
    
    They have images for all sorts of devices, and for ietuakization platforms (I run mine in VMware).
    
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  - AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Unfortunately I can’t remember whether I downloaded pihole from some package manager within DietPi, or whether I used the instructions on pihole’s site. It’s not hard either way, it’s really just one package.
    
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somerandomname@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I use it and love it, but still think the logo is a bit weird, reminds me of some evil message you see after a virus crashed your PC 😁.

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- Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Agreed. The phrasing “lightweight justice” always sounded strange to me as well. They could go with a friendlier, a more mainstream product design.
  
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tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s great. I’ve been using it for nearly a year and it just works brilliantly.

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hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
big fan. used it on a pi zero w that I had hosting my PiHole for years. when the hardware finally died, I just installed dietpi on a VM in my proxmox server and used it for pihole again.

sure, I could’ve used another distro but it only seemed fitting for this use case.

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Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Alpine all the way for me, but Dietpi was my gateway drug

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jogai_san@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
How does it handle kernel updates? Can it do live patching?

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negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I run DietPi on an OrangePi5+ to run Jellyfin on. It’s brilliant

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ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve been running DietPi for years. Its so lightweight and stable. I love GUI-less Debian and its chefs kiss on a Raspberry Pi.

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MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
But does it work on other SBCs like OrangePi ?

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Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve been using DietPi on my SBC home servers (NAS, media service, pi-hope, etc.) since 2017 or so.

It’s an excellent distri for headless operation and makes CLI easy to use for somewhat casual users.

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- rezz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  For media, I use Jellyfin on an M1 MacMini.
  
  How do you get around RAM requirements on SBC home servers with little devices like this? I am often streaming 4K files and the encoding/decoding can sometimes be mildly intensive depending on the file.
  
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  - Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I have a Raspberry Pi 4B. Clients can directly play the media without any need for realtime transcoding. I could 4K transcoding being challenging for older Raspberry Pi SBCs.
    
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