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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. 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..