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Assunto:  Re: Bsd Based Os's
De:       Mike Scott
Data:     Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:06:19 +0000
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On 22/01/2026 01:15, Mike Easter wrote:
> Tom Moore wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The ARM is 64bit. The gpu is 32bit. The 3b is 1G, 32 bit will use less 
> resources than 64, but...
> 
> There are a lot of bsd/s that are ARM.
> 
> Here's what FreeBSD says:
> https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm/
> 
> Open:
> https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html (shows RPi3)
> https://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html (doesn't show RPi3)
> 
> Net:
> http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/aarch64/
> 
> ... more dev is happening for 64bit.

FWIW I had freebsd running on a pi4 as a server; tier 1 support. I 
bought a pi5 for more speed only to find no suggestion of proper support 
in the foreseeable future. (Same for the other BSDs as far as I could tell.)

For various reasons (ease of maintenance; ease of swapping system disks 
between machines) I switched a year or so back, and now use mint on a 
low power amd64. Runs at <5W, and is faster than the pi4.



-- 
Mike Scott
Harlow, England

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