DietPi v6.6
01 April 2018
Image additions:
Nintendo Switch: DietPi Image now available, includes GPU, Kodi and RetroPie support! Many thanks to Mrs April and Mr Fall.
Changes / Improvements / Optimizations:
General | Removed minutely running "make_nas_processes_faster" cron job, which is present on some device base images,
without any effect on raw DietPi: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1654
DietPi-Cron | Added the ability to disable the new minutely cron job, if not needed, to reduce logs
DietPi-Boot | Dropbear: Adding ecdsa and dss host keys as well on 1st boot, to avoid boot error messages:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1670
DietPi-Boot | Now executes "iw" and "amixer" only, if binaries exist, unhide command outputs instead.
DietPi-Boot | Now executes "ifup/down wlan0" only, if interface is configured, to avoid error message about it.
DietPi-Boot | Now adds sourcing of DietPi-Globals to /root/.bashrc, if missing, e.g. due to user edit.
DietPi-Boot | Various code improvements according to: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1510
DietPi-Services | Start/Stop order is now based on service dependencies: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1462
General | Removed minutely running "make_nas_processes_faster" cron job, which is present on some device base images,
without any effect on raw DietPi: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1654
General | firmware-misc-nonfree is now installed by default for Native PC (x86_64) devices. Contains additional firmware for Intel CPU's.
General | RPi: Disabled the ability to fry an egg on the RPi 3 CPU. CPU temps are now halved under load! Many thanks to Mrs April and Mr Fall.
Bug Fixes:
General | RPi: Resolved issue with updating 'raspberrypi-sys-mods', where the patch would incorrectly apply a new apt mirror,
breaking the ability to update: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issue ... -377297103
General | firmware-misc-nonfree is now installed by default on all DietPi systems (minus those via PREP with WiFi disabled). Mostly Intel/Nvidia
firmware, however, it also contains ralink WiFi firmware: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issue ... -377806609
DietPi-Globals | G_RPI_UPDATE: Added APT hold state for "libraspberrypi0", to include all "raspberrypi-firmware" packages,
that are overwritten by "rpi-update": https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/pull/1657
DietPi-Process_Tool | Deluge: Is now a SystemD service, which resolves failed process tool apply on forking deluge process:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1658
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