DietPi is a minimal and highly optimized Debian-based Linux distribution
La February edition of DietPi was already released several days ago and in this new update released the developers They present improvements in support, adding new supported boards, as well as improvements for the Rapberry pi, among other things.
In this new version presented by DietPi 9.1 have added images for the Raspberry Pi, in which test builds have been improved, since were moved to use the Debian 12 kernel and the Raspberry Pi project firmware package. Separately a build was added for the ROCK 4 SE paid option. While for the NanoPi R5S/R5C/R6S/R6C/T6, improvements made since the kernel and bootloader are compiled using assembly tools from the Armbian project.
Another change that stands out in DietPi 9.1 is that DietPi-Tools, DietPi-Backup/DietPi-Sync will only report an error if the rsync process is already running, rather than for any process that contains "rsync" in its name.
Besides that, DietPi-Software is now enabled for x86_64 Bookworm and Trixie systems and the Python version installed with Home Assistant has been updated to 3.12.1 to align with official devices.
It is also highlighted that Resolved an issue where on Bullseye images, the root partition and file system were not expanded on first boot, as well as fixed an issue in Mosquitto where the software global password was accidentally applied as a username, and fixed an issue where installing Amiberry would fail on 64-bit RPi systems.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- An update to Squeezelite v2.0.0-1465 will be applied during the DietPi update.
- Added support for using the vaultwarden password manager on RISC-V systems
- Resolved an issue where default command arguments were not set correctly on a fresh installation of GMediaRender.
Fixed an issue on Samba Server where the configuration file would not be installed if the Samba Client was also installed, or an SMB/CIFS mount was performed. - Fixed an issue in Pydio where web access through the Apache web server would not work due to an invalid configuration entry.
- Fixed an issue in OctoPrint where system reboot and shutdown from the OctoPrint interface would fail due to an invalid sudoers rule.
- Resolved an issue in Squeezelite where the service could have started before the network adapter was initialized, which could have caused conflicts between multiple Squeezelite players.
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Download and install DietPi
If you are one of those who are interested in this OS for your Raspberry Pi, you should know that the installation process is simple and you must first go to to the website. You can do it from the following link. On the site you must go to the downloads section and download the correct image for your device. Once downloaded you can burn it to your Micro SD with the help of Etcher or do it directly with the dd command from the terminal.
Once this is done, now the next step is to make some configurations before system initialization. (the step is optional). For this within our computer we are going to navigate inside the SD and we will look for the file called dietpi.txt and this should be opened with the text editor of your liking.
Inside the file we will search for lines containing the following:
WIFI_SSID [0] = y WIFI_KEY [0] =
Here we are going to put the name of our network (SSID) and its password (Key)The lines we are looking for are something like this:
WIFI_SSID [0] = “elnombre-de-tu-red”
WIFI_KEY [0] =“tu-contraseña”
We saved and closed the file and now you need to put the microSD card in your Pi, plug in your keyboard and mouse as well as your Raspberry Pi power supply.
Once the system has started, you can access it with:
- username = root
- password = dietpi
Here the system is going to be updated and it will reboot at the end of this. After restarting again they log in again.
Now to install the tools package You just have to type:
dietpi-launcher