NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4

Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by mrkn1 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:26AM (#50441718)

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

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by coredog64 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:43AM (#50441972)

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).

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by cf100clunk on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @11:22AM (#50442531)

I see in the list of NetBSD packages that the parts for a fairly good Pi-Hole replica seem to be there. This writer seemed to need WiFi and a desktop, but of course neither is necessary for a Pi-Hole type of host.

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/index-all.h...

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Re:NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4 by anthk on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @12:08PM (#50443171)

EMWM would have been far better and lighter than NsCDE, even if compiled from mainline releases with everything: emwm, xfiles, ximaging...

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