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NetBSD 10 on a Pinebook Pro laptop
Aarch64 I've been running NetBSD on a RockPro64 since NetBSD 10-BETA, and I'm still happy with it now with NetBSD 10-RELEASE. I'm always looking for hardware to hack NetBSD though, and I recently watched a FOSDEM 2024 video: NetBSD 10: Thirty years, still going strong!.
The included WiFi card is not supported by 10-RELEASE, so I grabbed a Type A USB ethernet adapter ( axen driver) and plugged it in and NetBSD recognized it on the USB2 port. There is no active cooling, so if you do a build, you might want to put a fan over the keyboard and/or create separation between the laptop bottom and the surface it's resting on. For example, if want to do a late night check on how that ZFS scrub is going on my FreeBSD server, I don't have to use tmux on my phone, I can grab my shiny new NetBSD laptop instead.
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