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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by rustyhancock on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:46AM (#50441141)
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.

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by seanw444 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:48PM (#50445364)
NetBSD is so cool. I love how broad the hardware support is, and how straightforward the whole architecture is. My only complaint is that OpenZFS isn't really a thing yet, and the built-in implementation is very outdated. Otherwise I'd have it on my Orange Pi running my NAS.
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