Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
by ciupicri on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:37PM
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What about FreeBSD?
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Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
by epynonymous on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:20PM
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good support for raspberry pi or general arm support?
Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
by epynonymous on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:32PM
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i found this, seems it's been supported for a long time. i'm not ecstatic about the wrappers in ruby/python for gpio, but then again i don't need it at this point in time.
Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
by bringtheaction on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:20AM
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I am a great fan of FreeBSD and I run it as my main OS on one of my two laptops that I use daily.
That being said, last time I tried to run FreeBSD on a Radpberry Pi was not a pleasant experience. That was several years ago though so things may have improved.
Re:Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
by floatboth on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:26AM
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FreeBSD/arm64 now has official binary packages for 12-CURRENT. RPi3 runs in 64-bit mode with all 4 cores. For the most part, everything is good. But the vc4 KMS driver is not ported yet, so no GPU accelerated desktop for now.