An annotated look at a NetBSD Pinebook's startup
reddit / BSD

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MaxPayneNoir · 2018-05-22 10:01

I was seriously thinking of buying a pinebook; looks like I'll put
NetBSD on it (with a wifi dongle)

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jaypatelani · 2018-05-23 05:00

And LXDE updates coming soon
https://twitter.com/YouriMouton/status/998946526406893568?s=19

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MaxPayneNoir · 2018-05-25 10:03

cool! I'm still waiting for better Lumina implementation though ;)

On the other hand I recon the netbsd-light-desktop project is very
nice

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Kernigh · 2018-05-26 05:39

This looks good, except for missing SMP, so it only uses 1 of the 4
cores. It has a working framebuffer for graphics (obvious from the
picture) and also claims to have audio. I read elsewhere that
[audio(4)](http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi/man?audio+4+NetBSD-
current) will have virtual channels in NetBSD 8, so multiple programs
will be able to play audio at the same time.

OpenBSD/arm64 ~~has no graphics~~ (corrected by phessler below) and
needs a serial console. FreeBSD also does ARM but I don't know about
it.

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phessler · 2018-05-26 12:18

OpenBSD/arm64 does have graphics with simplefb(4).  I use it on my
pinebook, too.

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ezaquarii_com · 2018-07-12 05:44

I thought about buying it until I seen a disappointing battery life.