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It is said that BSD, especially NetBSD is very portable. However, I do not find NetBSD being used on Raspberry Pi, a single board computer https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/. Why is this so? Can NetBSD be used on Raspberry Pi?
It is not on NetBSD's list of supported platforms: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/ So it does not appear to be supported. Can it still be installed with hacking? I do not know.
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BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black
Cubieboard 2, Cubietruck, Cubieboard 4, Banana Pi, and other Allwinner boards
NVIDIA Jetson TK1
ODROID C1 and C1+
Raspberry Pi and Pi 2
This page attempts to document and coordinate efforts towards NetBSD/evbarm on Raspberry Pi. All board variants are supported.
Initial, limited, Raspberry Pi support was introduced in NetBSD 6.0. NetBSD 7.0 adds complete support for the board, along with introducing support for the quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 board.
ARM is officially a Tier 2 architecture, as the FreeBSD project does not provide official releases or pre-built packages for this platform due to it primarily targeting the embedded arena. However, FreeBSD/ARM is being actively developed and maintained, is well supported, and provides an excellent framework for building ARM-based systems.
Philip
Last edited by Philip Lacroix; 11-13-2015 at 05:24 PM.
Reason: more about FreeBSD/ARM
Regarding VMs I'm a bit on the lazy side: I never installed one, as I always opted for "true metal" gear. I have a Pi 1/B here, and I guess she wouldn't let me do the VM thing anyway: I installed Slackware ARM and Xfce there, and the result isn't really snappy (forget about Firefox et al.). Still a neat device though, perfect for the CLI.
Last edited by Philip Lacroix; 11-13-2015 at 12:09 PM.
Shortly after getting mine with 512MB-RAM had to see what it could do so I have Virtualbox 5.0 on an SD somewhere, too-many to count and your right CLI on it to do*
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I have a 1" screen from Adafruit going to hang in my beard with the board and say I got Pi in it for the next "Makers Fair." 
Add: last year was the first MF here the Pi was on a hat.
