Issues Installing NetBSD on a PineBook Pro
01-05-2021, 07:16 AM
Once you get into it, NetBSD is very enjoyable. At least that's how I find it. Exactly the right stuff and only that, comes with the default installation. The rest is entirely up to you. It bugs me to no end when I have to use a new GNU/Linux installation that all kinds of fancy things I'll never use are installed, but not simple necessities like vi and NFS.
I came from Solaris, and found NetBSD to be far more familiar than any of the linuces. I'm not sure how I would've felt coming from a Linux background. BSD is just different, and I think more down-to-Earth.
I don't think you'll have any issues starting out on the PBP. On x86 and other platforms, the installation, via sysinst, is menu-driven and very intuitive. That's the biggest difference. But we start out in a state which is after that process, using the images from armbsd.org. One of the best parts about NetBSD is that it is so platform independent. Once you're running, it's pretty much the same on any hardware platform.
I came from Solaris, and found NetBSD to be far more familiar than any of the linuces. I'm not sure how I would've felt coming from a Linux background. BSD is just different, and I think more down-to-Earth.
I don't think you'll have any issues starting out on the PBP. On x86 and other platforms, the installation, via sysinst, is menu-driven and very intuitive. That's the biggest difference. But we start out in a state which is after that process, using the images from armbsd.org. One of the best parts about NetBSD is that it is so platform independent. Once you're running, it's pretty much the same on any hardware platform.
