BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Bsd Based Os's
De:       bp
Data:     Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:00:02 +1100
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Tom Moore  wrote:
> Hi all,
> Anyone have any suggestions as to what BSD based os works well on the
> Raspberry Pi machines?
> I'm looking at either FreeBSD or NetBSD.
> Any ideas for one vs another?
> I have a Pi 3b device here to play with.

It really depends on what you expect to accomplish.

What do you want the machine to do?

The most troublesome aspect is limited RAM. If the loading is
light, it'll work fine. If you want the machine to self-host
some gyrations will be required. X with TWM will work, an X 
desktop environment will be useless. I'm using Pi3s for name
service running bind9 from microSD. It seems to work acceptably. 

I've a collection of notes and ramblings at
http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd [note, that's http, not https]
It's very poorly organized, but duckduckgo.com can be coaxed
to search that url via the syntax
[keyword] site:http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd 

I'm not a programmer and so handicapped in what I can fix.
Support from the freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list has
been essential to what success I've enjoyed. 

Hope this helps, questions are welcome.

bob prohaska


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