today at 2:46 PM
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.
today at 3:52 PM
> pkg_add pkgin
NetBSD 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.
today at 4:01 PM
If you're familiar with Debian tools pkg_add is like dpkg in this case it's used to install the package containing pkgin which is like apt.
Pkg_add simply installs binaries you ask it to and dependencies but can't do searches or broader package management like pkgin.
today at 3:08 PM
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).
today at 3:47 PM
What's the boot time like with that setup?
today at 2:44 PM
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today at 2:58 PM
The pixel art font is so bad I can only read the code snippets
today at 3:56 PM
It looks like a pretty standard bitmap font to me. Very legible to my eye. What’s wrong with bitmap fonts?
today at 4:13 PM
> Very legible to my eye.
Your retort is ableism. Some people have vision problems such as myself and I find reading the cute yet blocky font to be very uncomfortable. Thankfully, reader mode fixes this.
today at 3:40 PM
Reader view in Firefox does the job.
today at 3:30 PM
Yeah, exactly. I gave up very quickly.
today at 3:15 PM
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.
today at 3:35 PM
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.
today at 3:06 PM
But it's not AI slop! /s
today at 3:19 PM
yes, the irony
today at 3:26 PM
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
today at 3:43 PM
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).
today at 2:54 PM
"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?
today at 3:48 PM
dd and Etcher do not exactly have the same target audience.
today at 4:08 PM
Given the topic, I'd say the target audience preference would likely be thus:
Admin/root superuser of rpi4: dd
Admin/root superuser of NetBSD, other BSDs, or linux: dd
today at 3:18 PM
Can one point me to the lines of code in the Linux kernel that contain AI slop?
today at 3:31 PM
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)
today at 3:42 PM
Are they in the room with us right now?