Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 23:38:54 -0800 From: jungle boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: arm board purchase for 2017 Message-ID: <16d6ab8d-94fb-38d3-e8ad-1b1daa591355@gmail.com>
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Hi All, I'd like to purchase a SoC arm system and run FreeBSD on it and possibly openbsd, if it's supported. My go to purchase I was thinking of was a raspberry pi3 because of the great support coming along with it in FreeBSD. At the moment I don't plan on doing any hardware hacking, mostly software stuff like seeing how freeswitch would run/build on freebsd ARM, postgres building, possibly tinc and dn42 VPN stuff, etc. Is the raspberry pi the preferred board for software hacking, or is there something a bit better but still under $100US that's preferred? Contenders I'm aware of: banana pi cubieboard odroid pandaboard parallela raspberry pi I own a beaglebone black right now and it runs -current. I also own a pine64, which is running Debian. I haven't yet tried out freeBSD on it. I know (and thankful for) Brad makes images for it. Does anyone know how it's performing? Outside the arm world, has anyone tried freeBSD on a MinnowBoard? https://www.minnowboard.org/ Thanks for any input! I did read through this thread but I'm not looking for industrial usage: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2017-January/015443.html Best!
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