NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4

Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by forinti on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:08AM (#50441461)

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).

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by justin66 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:47AM (#50442035)

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by forinti on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:16AM (#50442447)

2 to 3 minutes.

I'm using a Cat 10 card. Maybe a better card would speed things up.

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by justin66 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:06AM (#50453593)

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by maxmalkav on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:00PM (#50446260)

I have been using a RPi1 B+ (512MB RAM) for 2 months now as DHCP server for my local network. It is still running 11.0, sysupgrade ran fine but I still see version 11.0 after rebooting, I have to figure out what I am doing wrong.

Software installation is indeed slow, my booting times are not terrible though (running just sshd, ntpd and dhcpd probably helps).

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