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NetBSD 1.4.2 Poised For Release

Posted by Nik on from the NP:-make-installworld dept.

Mike Lockwood writes: "I haven't seen a formal announcement yet, but the Releases page on the NetBSD Web site says, "The latest patch release, NetBSD 1.4.2, was released on March 19, 2000." Now that I have already downloaded a copy of the mac68k port and installed it on my Quadra 700, I figured it is safe to tell the rest of the world."

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  1. it's more like 26 ports.. by sommerfeld · · Score: 3
    It appears that we're up to 26 ports already in the master sources, plus a few more which haven't been merged back in yet..

    See the list in the right-hand column on www.netbsd.org

    Porting NetBSD is so easy that even we developers lose track of how many ports have been checked in to the master sources..

  2. Time to upgrade! by JDax · · Score: 3

    I have a single x86 NetBSD 1.4.1 box amongst my Linux boxen. &nbsp Once I got it installed and compiled me a new kernel (wow... how easy!), I haven't had much chance to get back to foolin' around with it. &nbsp Now's my chance.

    I have to say that when I was trying to determine which *BSD to try, it really boiled down to FreeBSD vs NetBSD. &nbsp Reason why I picked NetBSD was because of their low-key, no hype profile and a pledge to "release no code before its time". &nbsp It's just a nice, all around good system and I got 2 processes of seti@home running on it too, although the seti folks have ceased supporting the netbsd version of their software and have no plans to upgrade it to the 2.x version... &nbsp :-(.

    What was good was that it came with instant support, no questions asked, for all of my hardware (including ESS Solo-1 sound chip) plus it had USB support before Linux did, by the way! &nbsp ;-)

    Look forward to trying the upgrade!

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    -- Win2k: "It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs, it's just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow."
  3. Re:What's the advantage... by JDax · · Score: 3

    What's the advantage of NetBSD over OpenBSD? The advantage of OpenBSD (of course) would seem to be security. Why would I choose NetBSD instead, since OpenBSD is based on it?

    I had to go through the very same process... &nbsp If I were putting my box out on the network (not behind my firewall), then I would pick OpenBSD, hands down. &nbsp If I'm into applications, etc., and general all-around support, it would FreeBSD. &nbsp I picked NetBSD as a personal decision - it had the apps that I wanted, it is ported to almost everything, and as I posted previously, it purports to not release code before its time - sortof like Debian GNU/Linux, where your programmers are willing to spend that extra time to try to get it right. &nbsp Of course that means that releases come out later, but as a newbie, it's nice to get an install to go right the first time and not get frustrated! &nbsp I just liked their low keyed style, that's all. &nbsp No hype.

    You need to decide what you want to do with your box - that will give you an idea of which one to pick.

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    -- Win2k: "It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs, it's just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow."
  4. s/FreeBSD ports/NetBSD packages/ by sommerfeld · · Score: 4
    NetBSD has a packages collection which is very similar to (and related to) the FreeBSD ports collection.

    We use slightly different terminology -- a NetBSD "port" is a port of NetBSD to a particular platform, and we install into /usr/pkg by default instead of /usr/local, to leave /usr/local free for truly local software, but if you're familiar with the FreeBSD ports collection, it should look very familiar to you..