DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.
The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi
The project released the version DietPi v10.0 on January 25th, 2026.
The highlights of this version are:
Minimum supported Debian version: Raised from Bullseye (Debian 11) to Bookworm (Debian 12)
ownCloud Infinite Scale: New software package, replaces ownCloud
Uptime-Kuma: New software package, a monitoring tool for your system
Sparky SBC, NanoPi M2/T2/Fire2, and NanoPi M3/T3/Fire3 families: Removed support due to very old vendor images
RPi Cam Web Interface, Pydio: Removed. They do not support Bookworm and higher
Quartz64: Support of the new NPU driver
Fixes for Radxa ZERO 3, Orange Pi 3/3 LTS/3B, NanoPi R2S, NanoPi NEO3, ROCK64
Fixes for Home Assistant, BirdNET-Go, Mopidy
Raspberry Pi Imager: Support of DietPi as a selectable “Other general-purpose OS”
The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v10_0/