DietPi just made it easy to host your own Google Photos on a Raspberry Pi
DietPi is a popular operating system for Raspberry Pi boards and other low-power systems, offering improved performance and predefined 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 operating system” consisting 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 removed support for Debian 11 Bullseye.
DietPi v10.2 introduces Immich, the open-source, self-hosted alternative to Google Photos, as a new package in the software library. The machine learning server for Immich, which enables facial recognition and intelligent search, is also available. It’s important to note that Immich and the machine learning server do not need to be installed on the same device: you can transfer them to another Raspberry Pi or another 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, along with the RustDesk client for Remote Desktop access. The RustDesk server was already in the DietPi repositories.
Many of DietPi’s utilities have also been updated. The DietPi-Config tool now has more options for selecting the CPU temperature sensor, in case the correct sensor is not automatically detected, and the DietPi-Benchmark script can now be run with the dietpi-benchmark console command. The installation scripts for Home Assistant, myMPD/UrBackup and Amiberry have also been updated to fix regressions in new versions.
This is by no means a significant update for DietPi, but it’s still great to see more pre-built packages added to the project. If you want to effortlessly create a home server or thin client from a Raspberry Pi, another single-board computer, or even an old PC, DietPi might be for you.
DietPi always offers 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 prebuilt virtual machines. For other devices, you need to install Debian Linux first and then convert it to DietPi installation with DIY script.
Source: DietPi on GitHub
