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From: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Bsd Based Os's
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:15:33 -0800
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Tom Moore wrote:
> Anyone have any suggestions as to what BSD based os works well on the
> Raspberry Pi machines?
> I'm looking at either FreeBSD or NetBSD.
> Any ideas for one vs another?
> I have a Pi 3b device here to play with.

The ARM is 64bit. The gpu is 32bit. The 3b is 1G, 32 bit will use less 
resources than 64, but...

There are a lot of bsd/s that are ARM.

Here's what FreeBSD says:
https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm/

Open:
https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html (shows RPi3)
https://www.openbsd.org/armv7.html (doesn't show RPi3)

Net:
http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/aarch64/

... more dev is happening for 64bit.
-- 
Mike Easter