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On 22/01/2026 15:10, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> 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.

The setup with pi4/freebsd worked reasonably well as a home server. Mine 
provided nfs, mail, web (apache and mojolicious), ntp, dns and dhcp on 
only 4Gb ram. The main issue was that nfs bulk writes were very slow.

The crunch came when I tried processing a lot of images within a 
mojolicious web server. It simply could not do the job fast enough. I 
suspect it was overheating and lowering the clock speed. The replacement 
amd64 runs many times faster.

> 
> 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.

You were luckier than I, then. I made a bad assumption that tier 1 
support for a pi4 meant the pi5 would eventually get good support; it 
didn't, at least not enough to run out of the box.

> 
> Hope this helps, questions are welcome.
> 
> bob prohaska
> 


-- 
Mike Scott
Harlow, England

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