DietPi released a new version 8.6

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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/

The project released the new version DietPi v8.6 on July 2nd, 2022.

The highlights of this version are:

    New hardware support for PINE64 Quartz64 Model A, Quartz64 Model B and the SOQuartz Compute Module.
    Prometheus Node Exporter for hardware and OS metrics including HAProxy support.
    Tailscale, a free cloud-hosted VPN service option.
    ZeroTier, another free cloud-hosted VPN service.
    Rclone, quasi the "rsync for cloud storage".
    PiVPN with unattended first boot installation.
    Amiberry updated to latest version (5.3).

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_6/