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NetBSD 1.5 released

Posted by michael on from the slow-but-steady dept.

Leto2 writes "I'm happy to see NetBSD has released version 1.5 of their OS. NetBSD-1.5 currently runs on about 20 platforms, with an additional 10 avaliable as experimental. Get it from your local mirror today!"

6 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. Re:BSD? by wjw · · Score: 3

    > BFD
    Yes, it is big deal indeed. NetBSD project doesn't release new version every day. NetBSD 1.4 was announced in May 1999.
    And the changes are well worth new number. Soft updates in FFS, full featured RAID implementation, LFS improvements, Kerberos V and more cryptography support integrated (and available outside US as well), NFS lockd, IPv6 and various performance and reliability enhancements to name only a few.

  2. Compatibility support for Win32 programs?? by morel2k · · Score: 2

    What is that supposed to mean?

    1. Re:Compatibility support for Win32 programs?? by wjw · · Score: 3

      It means that NetBSD can run win32 binaries (PECOFF format) just like those for Linux, NetBSD, Solaris, etc.

      Basic system libraries (win32 API) have to be replaced by versions specifically written for NetBSD.

      Look at compat_pecoff(8) (the manual page) and http://chiharu.haun.org/peace/ (libraries).

    2. Re:Compatibility support for Win32 programs?? by hubertf · · Score: 2

      Someone else already mentioned that the Windows
      execution format is only a modified version of COFF, the Common Object File Format. But I think something that really rocks the boat can be looked at at this URL: http://chiharu.hauN.ORG/peace/screenshot/cmd.png.

      (Using a cmd.exe as your login shell :-)

      - Hubert

  3. Oh, come on! Moderate this guy up! by dcs · · Score: 2

    This is a _fair_ question. The recent releases of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD (1.4.3) all got the front page. Why didn't 1.5?

    --
    (8-DCS)
    1. Re:Oh, come on! Moderate this guy up! by frankie · · Score: 2

      Agreed. From the release announcement, it looks like 1.5 addresses most of the complaints in the discussion of 1.4.3 -- FFS soft updates, improved VM, IPsec, etc. Just about everything except SMP.