DietPi is a popular operating system for Raspberry Pi boards and other low-power systems, offering improved performance and pre-made configurations for common applications and self-hosted services. DietPi v10.2 has now arrived with Immich as an optional package, along with other changes.
If you’re not familiar with DietPi, it’s an “extremely lightweight Debian-based OS,” comprised of a minimal base system and a ‘diet pi-software’ library for quickly installing and configuring additional components. The big v10 update was released in January, which added more optional packages and dropped support for Debian 11 Bullseye.
DietPi v10.2 introduces Immich, the open-source and self-hosted Google Photos alternative, as a new package in the software library. The machine learning server for Immich, which provides facial recognition and smart search, is also available. Importantly, Immich and the machine learning server don’t have to be installed on the same device—you could offload that to another Raspberry Pi or other board to free up resources on your main Immich server. Both packages are only available for 64-bit x86 and ARMv8 platforms.
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There are two more package additions in this release. The fast Python package manager ‘uv’ is now available as a standalone software option, as well as the RustDesk client for Remote Desktop access. The RustDesk server was already in DietPi’s repositories.
Many of DietPi’s utilities have been updated as well. The DietPi-Config tool now has more options for picking the CPU temperature sensor, in case the correct one is not automatically detected, and the DietPi-Benchmark script can now be run with the dietpi-benchmark console command. The setup scripts for Home Assistant, myMPD/UrBackup, and Amiberry have also been updated to fix regressions in new versions.
This isn’t a significant update for DietPi by any means, but it’s still great to see more pre-configured packages added to the project. If you want to create a low-effort home server or thin client from a Raspberry Pi, another single-board computer, or even an old PC, DietPi might be for you.
DietPi still has operating system images for systems from Raspberry Pi, ROCK and ROCK64, Orange Pi, NanoPi, ASUS, NanoPC, and other manufacturers, as well as generic PC images and pre-made virtual machines. For other devices, you have to install Debian Linux first, then convert it to a DietPi installation with the DIY script.
Source: DietPi on GitHub
