Astro Hacker News - NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4

rustyhancock |next [-]

As 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.

forinti |next |previous [-]

I'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).

justin66 |root |parent [-]

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Nik0laich |next |previous [-]

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hoppp |next |previous [-]

The pixel art font is so bad I can only read the code snippets

conradfr |root |parent |next [-]

Reader view in Firefox does the job.

1313ed01 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Read the original gemini version then. I have not looked at it, but gemtext has no support for setting fonts at all, so it can not use a font you dislike unless you set that up in your gemini client.

throw432196 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Yeah, exactly. I gave up very quickly.

ClikeX |root |parent |next |previous [-]

I read this before opening the page, and I figured it couldn't be that bad. I instantly felt my eyes straining to read the introduction.

boxed |root |parent |previous [-]

But it's not AI slop! /s

aframemodular |root |parent [-]

yes, the irony

mrkn1 |next |previous [-]

funny, 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

coredog64 |root |parent [-]

He's got me thinking I could recreate something that looks like 4dwm and put my NetBSD Pi into a defunct O2 case. A "good" O2 from 96-97 would have been 200MHz w/ 256MB of RAM and a 1600SW display (1600x1024).

skrellm |next |previous [-]

"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?

justin66 |root |parent [-]

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aframemodular |previous [-]

Can one point me to the lines of code in the Linux kernel that contain AI slop?

LordLotherak |root |parent |next [-]

They're probably commenting on Linus Torvald's decision to accept commits that may or may not have been assisted with agentic coding in part or whole, getting accepted/rejected on a merit basis instead.

(Apparently that's too much gray area for some zealots)

not_a_bot_4sho |root |parent |previous [-]

Are they in the room with us right now?