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An Apple Mac mini is a robust and stable PC based hardware with a low power consumption which can be used to install DietPi. Compared to Raspberry Pi SBCs, the PC based hardware gives enough options for larger memory, higher computational power and built in storage options.This blog described how DietPi is installed on this […]
The v0.6.0 release of DietPi Dashboard brings many new features, changes, and bug fixes. For information on the dashboard itself, see the documentation. Here are some of the important changes: New Features Customizable Token Expiry The expiry time for the login token generated can now be changed in the config file (/opt/dietpi-dashboard/config.toml). Customizable Log Level […]
A critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been detected, which allows a user to get write access to a file, it shouldn’t have write access to, by using pipes for data streams and the Linux filesystem page cache. The vulnerability is hence called “Dirty Pipe“, otherwise given the ID CVE-2022-0847. The vulnerability affects […]
The Raspberry Pi family typically boots from an SD card plugged to the system. To avoid SD card lifetime issues, these systems can run from an connected USB resp. USB disk stick or – on some Pi derivatives – from an onboard eMMC flash memory. Lifetime issues may occur from the fact that the number […]
With DietPi 7.8, DietPi-Dashboard was initially added. This lightweight web dashboard allows you to take advantage of some features offered by your DietPi system, all from your browser. Main features The main features of the DietPi Dashboard are Statistics The main page shown to you by the dashboard, it lets you see many basic statistics […]
Here is how you can check whether one of your applications is affected by CVE-2021-44228, and how to mitigate the vulnerability.
The newly available Raspberry Pi Zero 2 is a nice boost for the Raspberry Pi Zero family which is often used for smaller and headless applications.
If you run a system with an underlying Debian Stretch version, we recommend to upgrade it at least to Debian Buster now. Here is why. Skip description and jump to update procedure: How can I upgrade now? Debian release model The Debian GNU/Linux operating system gets a major update every two years. The latest stable […]
DietPi startet its history more than 6 years ago and has a successful broadband usage in more than 100,000 active systems. There are a couple of other Debian based distributions where the DietPi team did comparisons to. This article describes these statistics. 1. Comparison overview The comparison data is published on the DietPi statistics page: […]
Debian 11 Bullseye has been released. This description gives the how to upgrade a system to Debian Bullseye and why you should do it.
