Raspberry PI 5 & DietPi

Its official - Raspberry PI 5 was announced for mid-end of month of October shipping.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

Of course, my question will be, how long before DietPi supports the new board?

*my personal interest is an upgrade from Pi 4 to Pi 5 with PCIe m.2 SSD to speed up our WordPress hosted website.

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I already ordered RPi5 8GB to upgrade my 24/7 running RPi4 4GB with DietPi :slight_smile:

I hope that idle power consumption will be better than RPi4.
Here: Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers | Tom's Hardware

“At idle, without any added cooling, it sits at around 50.5 degrees Celsius and consumes around 2.7 Watts.”

But Jeff mentioned in his video that RPi 5 has lower idle power consumption that RPi 4:

see

blog: Answering some questions about the Raspberry Pi 5 | Jeff Geerling

running Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) aarch64 with kernel 6.1.32-v8+ (source)

here are good thread with interesting data, logs, thoughts Raspberry Pi 5 model B · Issue #21 · geerlingguy/sbc-reviews · GitHub

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we are checking for developer samples. Let’s see how this is going.

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Explaining Computers on YT did a power measurement…running wide open…it was pulling 6 watts…and was about 50-70% faster across the board on almost all benchmarking metrics

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https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/testing-pcie-on-raspberry-pi-5

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Best review yet!

Will be tracked on GitHub Image | Raspberry Pi 5 · Issue #6676 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub

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Looks like good start but many issues to resolve before Dietpi is stable for Pi 5… Please keep us informed!