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Ottavio Caruso   wrote:
>On 23/08/2020 21:50, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>> My current Thinkpad is dying and I was wondering if the Raspberry Pi 4-B
>> 8GB would be a half-decent laptop replacement, obviously with the
>> addition of a portable monitor (suggestions?) and an external drive.
>
>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.

You can put 64-bit Gentoo Linux on a Raspberry Pi:

https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit

Having a cross-development environment helps, though with more RAM on the
RPi 4, native compiles of most packages shouldn't be too painful.  (You'd
probably still want to cross-compile truly massive ebuilds like Chromium,
though.)

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