Justine SmithiesMar 18
I'm this close 🤏 to reinstalling #OpenBSD back onto my Thinkpad. Might be a project for this weekend?  

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Show threadZenieMar 20

@justine @prahou
I love BSD. I ran it for years.

But now I'm on linux because
I've embraced sustainability and I use little ARM SBCs for most of my computers. ARM isn't well supported by BSD.
It really needs to be. I'd drop Linux like a hot potato

I really don't like it that much, Armbian, the best ARM distro by far has just dropped Debian releases. They are all Ubuntu gnome. Both of which I detest. I refuse.

I've been looking at making my own images.

Show threadAndrew BallMar 20
@Zenie @justine @prahou I find #NetBSD/evbarm works on the 32-bit boards. People tell me it (partially) works on some 64-bit boards but not mine. In fairness I think there's a lack of documentation for the SoCs.
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@ball @justine @prahou
It's true about the documentation.

I've been running 64 bit Rockchip 3588. 8 cores 32g.
They are quite capable and at this point old.

One thing I've considered is taking an Armbian image and replacing the boot and the system bits. It's the d tree that needs all the futzing and that is the hardware.

It's just an idea. But if Armbian can then
it should be possible for any system image that is compiled correctly.

Mar 20 at 6:11pmWeb