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 Message 21906 
 Daniel James to All 
 Re: Bsd Based Os's 
 23 Jan 26 09:59:58 
 
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On 22/01/2026 11:30, 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.

OpenBSD (I know, not what you asked) has some explicit support for Pi5.

I'm not sure whether

    "Added support for Raspberry Pi 5 (with console on serial port)."

means that you can only run it on a serial terminal connected to the Pi 
-- IOW no desktop -- or what. I haven't tried it.

https://www.openbsd.org/78.html

-- 
Cheers,
  Daniel.

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