"Ottavio Caruso"  wrote

| I just wanted to point out that my choice would go for NetBSD because,
| it seems, NetBSD can use all the 8GM RAM, while other OSes, including
| Raspbian, can only use 3GB RAM.

  Are you sure you need that? I'm writing this on Windows
XP 32-bit. I run image editing, RAW editing, Visual Studio 6,
Libre Office, sometimes Avidemux, a video player, and various
other things. After feeding the graphics I end up with about 3
GB RAM. I almost never get anywhere close to using it. The
only situation where it might show a difference would be
with video editing or extremely large image editing. From your
initial description it's hard to imagine where you might need so
much RAM.

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