Notices tagged with dietpi
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Sep-2021 03:57:47 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Installing #DietPi on a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
I dislike some of their defaults already:
1. Expects an Ethernet connection. To autostart Wi-Fi, you have to edit a couple of files (one to enable #Wi-Fi and disable #Ethernet, one to enter your Wi-Fi logon information). It should accept either connection by default and use a "wifi-config" program to set up the connection.
2. Defaults to hostname 'dietpi' instead of having you name your device as part of setup.
3. Apparently, 'root' and 'dietpi' users exist with same password ('dietpi') ... the change password step of the setup appears to give both accounts the same password.
4. This is common among nearly every GNU+Linux distro these days: I want my systems to use UTC timezone ... but where most distros use a 'locale' setting to set a local timezone, DietPi assumes I'm in London. It chose BST as the timezone.
The good.
1. There doesn't seem to be a lot of unnecessary junk installed. I'm using a 16GB microSD card, so I don't want anything that isn't needed for the chosen task.
2. Uses #Raspian / Raspberry Pi OS and #Debian repos along with its own, so most of what I might want to install is available.
3. DietPi-Survey is disabled by default. -
❦ Billy Blaze ❦ (ckeen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jun-2018 10:12:04 UTC ❦ Billy Blaze ❦ @Earthnuker @grainloom Has anyone used #dietpi successfully as the basis to get #freedombone up and running?