Open MichaIng opened 3 years ago
ok yes that's how I had it in mind. At least to get an overview. Most of our user are not aware that DietPi not an own OS. This can be used to show where the image used is coming from 😃
Yeah, I mean when running apt update
the repositories are shown right there. But it requires at least some understanding about how GNU/Linux distributions/images are composed, the difference between distros that maintain their own APT/RPM/whatever package repository (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, ...), those which use other's repositories for major part of the OS, while concentration on kernel/firmware to get it running on particular hardware (Armbian, Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit, generally SBC manufacturer images, Meveric's), and those which use others kernel/firmware repositories and concentrate more on userspace features, like us 😃, Lysmarine, Picroft, SteamOS and such. Quite a jungle when being new to Linux.
It's interesting to read details about history and features of SBC devices, but users who land at our docs have their hardware already, hence know about those details already or do not find it relevant. What is relevant when dealing with DietPi images is:
We have a short pre-image info in the DietPi header, but that alone is a bit short in most cases.
Specifically it could look like this for Odroid XU4:
linux-image-4.14-armhf-odroid-xu4
Kernel/firmware repository and maintainers could be grouped for all Odroids (but C1, as this uses Armbian kernel).