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Pi-Lovers? There Are Two New OSes for You to Bite

posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 03 2018, @12:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-think-of-the-NUC dept.

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

[...] While it has been possible to get Alpine on the Pi for some time – Raspberry Pi 2 owners have been able to get it working since version 3.2.0 – this is the first version to add support for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and also offer an arm64 (aarch64) image to ease deployment.

The Pi 3 Model B+ packs a surprising amount of power into a small package, rocking a 64 bit 1.4GHz processor and gigabit ethernet (over USB 2.0). The 1GB RAM (unchanged from the previous Model B) should give the slimline Alpine incarnation of Linux more than enough headroom, depending what else you decide to run.

[...] Alpine's frugal nature makes it appealing as an alternative to some of the more resource intensive distributions available for the Pi, with optimisations such as OpenRC replacing systemd as the init system. A minimal disk installation will only consume around 130MB and the maintainers claim a container only needs 8MB.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @08:57AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @08:57AM (#702457)

    The real question is.. Will it run FreeBSD [freebsd.org] or any other BSD..?

    Avoids poettering'd and provides a integrated kernel + userland, conservative code changes etc.

  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:07PM

    by KritonK (465) on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:07PM (#702508)

    Of course it does [raspbsd.org]. However, the situation appears to be even worse regarding multimedia, or even a graphical environment. (Or, these guys simply don't know how to promote their own product. What does "The Graphical Images currently only have a VideoCore kernel modules added to them. In the future a GUI and other tools will be preloaded" mean? Is GUI support something that has not been implemented yet, or is adding a GUI simply a matter of installing the relevant packages after the installation of the base system?)

    Even with FreeBSD, my question remains: does it fulfill my requirements for a multimedia machine?