Building a lightweight freebsd derivative for raspberry pi 4.

[Alain De Vos]

I try to build a lightweight freebsd derivative for my own on my raspberry pi4.
Maybe you know stuff i can throw out of the kernel.
As desktop i think i3, others ?
Maybe you have ideas for a lightweight music player capable of playing flac and a lightweight media player.
As for browser there seems to be only one option firefox.

 

[eternal_noob]

As desktop i think i3, others ?

Openbox + tint2

lightweight music player

As far as i know, sound doesn't work on a Pi 4/400, see https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry Pi

 

[Alain De Vos]

The integrated audio does not work. But I've added a very cheap USB-audio dongle from the vendor renkforce. Sound works fine with it. I can play youtube files.

 

[eternal_noob]

So you want to build a FreeBSD derivative only for yourself? Maybe a installer script to fetch the necessary packages is more feasible?

 

[Crivens]

Music player: deadbeef
File manager: xfe / worker
Email: claws

... and let me know where to find the result. I have 2 of them in a box waiting for action.

 

[freezr]

I personally think XFCE can work nicely without compositing.

If you know C programming DWM might be a faster alternative:

dwm - dynamic window manager | suckless.org software that sucks less