I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Try DietPi (Debian based ARM distro). It has an excellent set of custom CLI tools. They've been around for over a decade and have an active community and release cadence.

They even support Raspberry Pi 1/2 (I started with Pi 3 though):

https://dietpi.com/#download

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'll have to see if I have a way to flash a micro SD to do that

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