Monday, April 04, 2016

BSD on Raspberry Pi 2

Raspberry Pi 2 is the version that finally seems a good purchase to me with its quad core processor and 1GB of memory. If you need WiFi, Pi 3 is even better since an external WiFi dongle consumes more power.

But I would prefer to use an official release of a known operating system instead of using custom forks like Raspbian.

FreeBSD provides an official image, but to them ARM is a tier 2 platform "not supported by the security officer and release engineering teams". So, no freebsd-update. The existing image is for CURRENT ie. bleeding edge. RELEASE would be nice.

OpenBSD has no plans to support it.

The winner is NetBSD: they have an official image since NetBSD 7!

So now NetBSD and this little Pi 2 will replace a much bigger and nosier machine for a dedicated task. I'm curious how it holds up!

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