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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.   
      
      
      
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   Mike Scott   
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