FreeBSD on the Pi
The RaspBSD project has announced RaspBSD, a new Raspberry Pi distribution based on FreeBSD, a free version of Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix that is older than Linux and considered by many users to be more stable and secure. Regardless of your preference, the new project will give you a means for testing and experimenting with FreeBSD 11 using the conventional boot-from-the-SD-card Raspberry Pi installation techniques.
So far, RaspBSD images exist for the Raspberry Pi Model B and B+ systems. The project reports that images for Banana Pi and BeagleBone Black are in the works.
The nature of open source systems makes it easy for a seasoned developer with sufficient time and resources to port an operating system to new hardware. Developers have run BSD on Raspberry Pi systems in the past – the real news is that RaspBSD offers a sustained development effort to maintain an ongoing branch of the FreeBSD kernel for Pi-like systems and to integrate the necessary tools and documentation to make the system easy to install and use.
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