On 13 November 2015 at 21:22, carlos antonio neira bustos <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought of something like a NeXT black cube but using NetBSD and GNUStep > and a raspberry pi 2.
NetBSD is quite a lot more primitive than Linux. E.g. Linux (and only Linux) has graphical acceleration on RasPi, NetBSD does not. Linux can recognise and handle most arbitrary USB devices, NetBSD probably won't. Pretty much all the Howtos and docs online about RasPi discuss Linux -- I know this because I run Risc OS on mine, and there's very little info about that. Configuring networking on Linux is relatively simple because of tools like NetworkManager. (For users that dislike GNOME tools, there's Wicd, but it's basic and rather ugly.) NetBSD doesn't have anything like that. If you want to make it relatively easy and accessible to non-experts, Linux, mainly Raspian on the RasPi, is the only serious option, I'm afraid. Because of this list, I tried OpenBSD for the first time a couple of years ago. I was shocked at how crude and primitive it felt compared to Linux, to be honest. It's aimed at a very different type of user. I've been saying for years that we need a GNUstep Ubuntu remix if we're going to attract any serious interest to the product, but it seems to me that the community don't really use it as a desktop and aren't interested in that role for it. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
