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Raspberry Pi owners can dig out their SD-card formatting tools of choice again, because a new version of FreeBSD has emerged for the machines,
RaspBSD will work on the Pi models B and B+ and promises to run on more "soon". The "more" looks like including the BeagleBone Black and the Banana Pi.
FreeBSD has been available on the Pi for some time, as recorded in this post by the Pi foundation. This cut of the OS is the work of FreeBSD contributor and forum administrator Brad Davis, who says "The Goal of this project is to build images easily useable by anyone. Sometimes that means images preloaded with different packages to help new users get started."
Anyone working on fun Pi projects this summer?
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Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution
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(Score: 4, Informative) by zafiro17 on Thursday August 20 2015, @05:56PM
Remember kids, FreeBSD has no systemd infection, and while they're planning on replacing init scripts eventually with something better, history shows the FreeBSD project will think long and hard about it before doing it.
In the meantime, installing FreeBSD on your Raspberry Pi means it will stay blissfully clean of any systemd infection. Just one of many advantages of going FreeBSD.
Second benefit: FreeBSD is in my opinion far easier to strip down to just the basics. You can have total control over what's running and what's not. Yes, that's supposed to be the case for Linux as well but I find that it's easier or more intuitive to do it on a FreeBSD machine. Get compiling, people!
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