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Mini-PC for NetBSD



Hello everybody,

today a small hardware question. I would like to buy a Mini-PC, on which NetBSD should be used as primary desktop operating system. I thought about an Intel NUC. Such a device from the lower end of the performance scale with Celeron-CPU I already have in use as a home server (model NUC5PPYH). But for the desktop it may be a bit more power. An i5 with SSD and 8 GB RAM or more seems to be a good choice. While I assume that the often used Realtek-LAN-chipsets and USB 3.0 are no longer a big problem, I am more concerned about the support of the integrated graphics. In intel(4) the Intel Iris and Intel Iris Pro chipsets and Intel HD are mentioned as supported. Not included are Intel UHD, which is used in some of the newer NUCs. Is there any way to find out in advance if the respective integrated graphics will be supported by NetBSD's Xorg? I would like to use the Intel driver and I would not like to switch to the less performant VESA driver. I would also be grateful for a concrete model name, if one of you has such a NUC with a specification of my choice and can confirm that everything works fine.

Thanks & best regards
Matthias


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