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- rustyhancockAs the saying goes. Of course it runs NetBSD.They have a nice wiki page around running on Arm which might be helpful (and subpages for the main boards).https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/I set it up on an Arm SBC last year and I have to say it did not seem as involved a process as that blog post. I hope it hasn't become more complicated.
- forintiI've been trying NetBSD 11.1 on an RPi1 these last few days.It takes a long time to install anything and I don't expect to surf the web on it, but it's nice to have this OS as an option.I wanted to try out openconnect-saml on it, but the install failed because of lack of RAM/swap. I have managed to run xfreerdp over openconnect on it though (FreeBSD had better performance).
- lilbigdootI've been dealing with NetBSD on VMs and my desktop lately and it's really lovely. By far the fastest install and boot of any OS I've tried on my systemI really love the amd64 "live" .img they provide too. It's a disk image you just write to a disk and on its first boot it expands the image to the full size of the disk, reboots, and your system is ready to goFor anyone curious to try, do note that EFI boots significantly faster than BIOS. I forget exactly why but BIOS boots requires an unpacking step every boot that EFI boots do notThe one thing keeping it from my daily driver on my desktop was my GPU is not yet supported. I do love the OS though. PkgSrc is nifty
- MobiusHorizons> pkg_add pkginNetBSD noob question: what’s going on with this command? Is pkg_add not a package manager? If you already have pkg_add why do you need pkgin? I am familiar with `pkg` on FreeBSD, and `pkg_add` on OpenBSD, but they are both perfectly good enough on their own, I never wanted to install another package manager.
- krautburglarI think the biggest problem with many of the non-Linux open source kernels these days is high idle CPU consumption — on both real hardware, and under virtualization.Did latest OpenBSD & Haiku recently under KVM. Idle OBSD was using around 20% CPU to do nothing. Haiku, 30%. And it’s not just a virtualization thing. Thinkpad battery test yielded similar results.
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- hopppThe pixel art font is so bad I can only read the code snippets
- mrkn1funny, most people, when they free up a Raspberry Pi, install Home Assistant or Pi-hole.vThis guy installs NetBSD 11.He spends half the tutorial getting Wi-Fi working, then installs a modern desktop environment styled after a desktop environment from 1993.next level nostalgia
- skrellm"Get Balena's Etcher (if you don't have it)"You lost me there. Why are ppl still using this electron monstrosity when there are so many better alternatives? (Like dd, WIN32Imager, USBImager, DiskImager, etc.)?I mean, Etcher is bigger than the entire NetBSD image, what the hell?
- aframemodularCan one point me to the lines of code in the Linux kernel that contain AI slop?
- qubexI find it hilarious that the author deliberately chooses to talk the novice user through the use of Vim (including how to quit it) rather than suggest something simpler such as pico or nano.