BTS#3: Removing Unwanted Services and Modules for a Headless Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
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For my next small side project, I’m running a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as a proxy server for my website. In fact, right now, fabulous.system is served from this exact Pi!
For this task, the limited CPU capabilities are not that big of a deal, but the limited RAM is. Sometimes, 512 MB is really not enough memory. Clearly I can’t simply add more RAM to the Pi, so I decided to disable as many hardware features as possible.
I don’t need WiFi, sound or accelerated video; all I need is USB for my Ethernet adapters.
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