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DietPivsTerraforming Mars

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

DietPiTerraforming Mars
Score71/10062/100
Rank in category#2 of 8 in Operating System#4 of 14 in Gaming
GitHub stars6 369961
Stars, last 30 days+71+9
Stable releases, 12 months110
Latest releasev10.8 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseGPL-2.0GPL-3.0
Main languageShellTypescript

Which one should you pick?

DietPi scores 71/100 against 62/100 for Terraforming Mars, so it is the safer default.

DietPi ships more often: 11 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Terraforming Mars.

DietPi is growing faster right now (+71 stars in 30 days).

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