Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Minimal NetBSD for Raspberry Pi 2

For no reason other than fiddling with the NetBSD codebase and build system plus the desire to reduce the world bandwidth waste, I've published a minimal NetBSD image for the Raspberry Pi 2 containing only the base set.

You only have to download this 76MB compressed image which becomes under 500MB uncompressed so it fits any recent microSD card you have in your drawer.

I have successfully used such a NetBSD system as a customer proxy of sorts this whole year.

Because lots of times you just need a machine with SSH and a shell.

Of course, my patches are minor, it's not like I managed to fit NetBSD onto a floppy disk but I liked doing it none the less!

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