On 13 November 2015 at 21:22, carlos antonio neira bustos
<cneirabustos@gmail.com> 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.