Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

Optimal installation of LibreOffice on the Raspberry Pi zero 2 using DietPi 32 bit & zRam

Last Updated on June 30, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

The Raspberry Zero 2 W reaches maximum performance with DietPi to get everything out of the Zero 2W:

here is the instruction which can be translated:

  • DietPi is a good mach for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, here is why:

https://dietpi.com/blog/?p=1058

  • to install the 32 bit version is better than the 64 bit version for the zero 2 w.
  • The bottle neck is the 512 MB Ram of the zero 2 w.
  • The software list which is available for the in depth OS DietPi is shown here:

https://dietpi.com/docs/software

  • Unfortunately there are no office applications like Abiword, Gnumeric, LibreOffice and Word 97
  • But for that purpose we have Kajidataonline from Malaysia who installed LibreOffice on the zero w:
  • And if this does still not boot up we still can test zRam on the zero 2 w as explained by Leepspvideo: