FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi: you fell for it!

The idea is grand: running glorious (until lately) FreeBSD OS on the cheapo Pi hardware. Sounds great on the surface, but the genius implementation is, as always, flawed.

As you might know, FreeBSD out of the box comes with its most critical component missing, although bootstrapped to install itself on first use. I am referring to pkg

Problem is that there is no working repository for it on the FreeBSD servers and it has to be built from source, which takes countless hours on Pi hardware. But first one has to install and extract the ports tree, which in turn takes countless hours.

Both should come on the image OOB, but being genius, the maintainers follow the orthodoxy of their OS rather than common sense, wasting users' time and wearing down their SD cards. How typical!

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