INFO: Changes to the DietPi device lineup

Fourdee · 19 February 2018 21:36

Hi All,

We’ve made some changes to our device lineup and support infrastructure. For more information, please see the following link:

github.com/MichaIng/DietPi

DietPi Images | Restructure of images and supported devices

opened 04:33PM - 19 Feb 18 UTC

closed 05:37PM - 21 Feb 18 UTC

Fourdee

Enhancement

Priority

## Important changes to the DietPi device lineup: #### In the interest of bot…h parties involved: - I have taken the decision to remove all ARMbian based images from our lineup. #### In the interest of further reducing the stretch and strain on our support infrastructure. - All OrangePi and BananaPi images will be dropped from our lineup. Although these boards offer a low priced SBC product, the experience of these boards is never guaranteed due to their kernel development being behind the other SBC devices. In most cases requiring years of open source development to fix stability and achieve any acceptable level of expected use, with no cost to the board and/or chip manufacture. As our work is focused outside of kernel development (its not what we do), we are only willing to support devices which provide a stable kernel experience and a high quality product in the first instance. --- ## Regardless of the above, DietPi can still run on any Debian device! - Any system can run DietPi. All you need a generic Debian image and use of our automated DietPi PREP system: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1285#issue-280771944 #### What happens to my current installation if the image is no longer available? - It will continue to operate. The device will still update and function, however, it is no longer supported or endorsed by our team and the image is no longer available for download. #### I really liked the previous list of available devices and pre-made images, i'am unhappy! - We can only apologise and we understand. We wish there was another way, but all avenues have been exhausted without resolution. However, in the interest of providing a better and more stable DietPi experience for everyone, we can achieve this by limiting the devices we can officially support and offer an image for. Regardless, if you can obtain a Debian image for the device you need, you can use our PREP script to convert it and make it ready for DietPi: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1285#issue-280771944 #### Why are you still supporting some NanoPi devices? - The build quality of these devices is exceptional, on par with RPi's offerings. FriendlyARM offer stable baseline images and maintain their own kernel fork for most of their device lineup. For those devices, we will continue to offer an image and support. --- @k-plan @MichaIng Once i've calculated the installation counts via survey, i'll post here and we can further discuss.