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Very disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular. The other day I wanted to build a pihole set-up using it - do you think it works seamlessly with raspberry
by andarleen 6y ago
Very disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular. The other day I wanted to build a pihole set-up using it - do you think it works seamlessly with raspberry pi? It doesn't. Wanted to install it on my UEFI bios - have to take more steps than I should. Wanted to run it on an nvidia jetson i have lying around. Good luck with that! Basically it only works with very common or old hardware. A shame really. I don't want to sound entitled, would have been happy to allocate time to build eyecandy apps to make it more suitable for a desktop (had an app included in the ports tree in the past), but I simply can't without spending too much time to even make it work. I wish this would change, as FreeBSD is my first "love", and for good reason - it's tidy and logically organised.
- metalliqaz 6y agorpi and many other boards use proprietary drivers that are not open to the community. the hardware vendor makes a Linux blob and that's it. What can FreeBSD do about it?
- andarleen 6y ago> What can FreeBSD do about it? That's a good question, and I don't have a clue. I know my comment sounds a bit entitled, because now that I think of it FreeBSD has provided that platform for vendors and the wider community to port drivers, or reverse engineer where possible. If i could do it I would do it myself, but I lack the skill and time. So i'll rephrase my statement: s/Very disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/Very disappointed that vendors do not provide better hardware support for BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/. It really is a shame that such a great OS doesn't have wider support and adoption.
- numpad0 6y agoNDISwrapper
- upofadown 6y ago>...FreeBSD in particular. Which other BSDs did you try?
- andarleen 6y agoTried NetBSD and OpenBSD in the past, and had worse issues in terms of compatibility. However, I had to rephrase my comment based on someone else's comment, and based on the realization that it's not FreeBSD and BSDs at fault: s/Very disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/Very disappointed that vendors do not provide better hardware support for BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/
- liveoneggs 6y agoNetBSD supports those boards, iirc
- GeorgeTirebiter 6y agoIndeed it does, and I've been running RPi3B+ / NetBSD for years successfully. Try it!
- 1over137 6y agoIf you're wanting to use FreeBSD for something pihole-like, check out pfsense and pfBlockerNG.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoWell... you could have tried https://www.invisible.ca/arm/ https://www.invisible.ca/arm/ and https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ along with https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/ https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/