How Does FreeBSD Compare to Linux on a Raspberry Pi?

Post by crb3 » Sun, Jan 07, 2024, 8:16 PM UTC

cassepipe wrote: post #10

crb3 wrote: post #7

Commenting to something said within the linked article: 32-bit Devuan (with Trinity Desktop aka KDE3.5 on maintenance) is still available at http://exegnulinux.net/ with Devuan/Debian repos. I'm happily running that on a Core2 Duo laptop.

IIRC correctly from my Late 2007 Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook days, that cpu can handle a 64 bits OS (although in my case the EFI could not so you had to modify it in order to be able to boot a 64bits OS)

Post by binary132 » Sun, Jan 07, 2024, 9:08 PM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #15

smodo wrote: post #5

I’m interested in this because lately I’ve been using an rpi4 with Surge XT, a great open source softsynth. The sound engine itself is not cpu bound in most scenarios. The pi can be brought to its knees with a lot of voices and effects but that is to be expected. What baffles me is that it randomly drops a ton of UDP packages, fails to read/write disk and randomly experiences high load only to quiet down later. Basic…

Whatever the OS, if you’re still using the internal SD card, upgrade to an SSD ASAP. The SD card has terrible random IO. When I switched, I saw routine tasks like “apt update” drop from a minute or so to a few seconds. That’s with a high quality SD card, too. I don’t have it nearby at the moment, but it was one of the ones the RPi website recommended.

Post by throwaway0x4 » Mon, Jan 08, 2024, 1:21 AM UTC

Post by LeFantome » Mon, Jan 08, 2024, 6:27 AM UTC

crb3 wrote: post #21

cassepipe wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC correctly from my Late 2007 Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook days, that cpu can handle a 64 bits OS (although in my case the EFI could not so you had to modify it in order to be able to boot a 64bits OS)

The laptop is a Gateway MX8711. I tried the Exe-Gnu 64bit live-USB and it refused to boot, so I shrugged and booted it into the 32bit flavor. Inherent or model-specific (or offended at only having 2G DRAM to play in), it wasn't worth my time to chase down why, not for an ancilliary machine.