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NetBSD 1.5.2 Released
KiwiSurfer writes "NetBSD 1.5.2 has been released. Check out the release announcement and the changelog from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2. Grab NetBSD 1.5.2 from ftp.netbsd.org or one of their mirrors."
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Things only get better, I also believe FreeBSD 4.4 will be released today.
Refreshing news.
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
From the changelog:
"...Update versions to 1.5.2, leaving some references to 1.5.1 (as 1.5.2 is released as a rapid bug-fix release relative to 1.5.1)"
Rapid bug-fix... that pretty much sums it up. Lots of bug-fixes you shoulda already taken care of (telnet, sendmail, etc...) and the usual round of fixes.
Always nice to see the work on the BSDs continue...
At the risk of starting a flamewar or being modded as OT or redundant, can anyone point me to a site where the relative merits of the various *BSD OSes are discussed. I've seen this sort of thing for Linux distros...
Nik is stupid for posting a URL to an FTP server.
I thought slashdot had learnt their lesson on this one.
Can a karma whore please post the changelog so that the ftp server does not get overwhelmed from all the slashbots.
DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN
But will it run on my ti85 calculator yet? :)
Apparently SlashDot can't handle posts that provide NetBSD-Changelogs ... because of their stupid (doesn't work anyway) Lameness Filter.
It won't allow me to post the contents of the CHANGES-1.5.1 file that contains the changes from 1.5.2 compared to the 1.5.1 Release.
Things told dead are living longer
I think that *BSD will never die, because
I know of many commercial software products
(mostly firewalls) which use some edited
*BSD as a operating system.
I am using linux since 0.9, I've tried
FreeBSD about 2 years ago, but I was not
very happy about it (I used it as a firewall,
but I had lots of problems on desktop with it
I've downloaded the 1.5.1 about 2 or 3 months
ago and I think that it is a *lot* faster than
my linux. Besides of that, I am currently
running the 1.5.1 on my second system,
X11 with AfterStep, two mozilla windows,
three terminals and GKrellM and it's only using
61 MB of memory
That said, with the Linux port apparently stalled, NetBSD is currently the closest I have to getting a free Unix on my NeXT black hardware. It doens't work yet, because mine are the Turbo model, but it's the closest of the bunch...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
I went to the ISO mirrors and all the sites are either denying access or do not have the 1.5.2 directory set up yet. You may want to give it a couple days before trying.
Perhaps the crew at slashdot can create a temporary mirror site where they cache a site before they post the article. Then they can have an option on the page to either go to the referenced site or to view the cached site. Granted this would take up some space, but they would only need to do it for a couple, maybe three days, then they could retire the cache and refer everyone to the original site. This would keep the slashdot effect to a minimum. Of course I am not sure about the legal ramifications of this.
Remember, You are unique...just like everyone else.
Is it time for another "which BSD is better" flame-war already?
- "Linux good, M$ crappy!"
"How to Get Modded Up on Slashdot", Chapter 3
Alan rickman was just rushed to hospital this morning following a mild heart attack too.
Do they always go in 3's?
Well, damn, there goes my uptime.
Many thanks to the netbsd developers for such a wonderful product -- as I've said before, I always point friends who want to "learn about Unix" to NetBSD, or occasionally OpenBSD. They've all come back to thank me.
Keep up the good work.
--saint
Why on earth would you post links to their main ftp server here on slashdot. Wasn't linking to their list of mirrors enough? Their ftp servers are pretty much unreachable.
The BSD's and Linux are all extremely useful, vibrant, tremendously exciting, innovative, and lots of fun to boot.
.NET.
However, I don't think open source os's have a future. This has nothing to do with MS or
What will finally end them is the SSSCA. Requiring copy protection in the OS is inherently closed-source. SSSCA effectively will make open source os's illegal.
I don't think SSSCA can be stopped. The recording and movie industries will push it through quietly, and one day we'll wake up to sadly find the BSD's are illegal.
- one of my greatest pleasures is wiping out CE and booting NetBSD on this great little laptop..
h pc mips/
- i've put up a quick mini-howto w/screenshots of the Z50 in action at:
http://www.tux.org/~bball/z50
- i use an Adaptec SCSI PCMCIA adapter and an external CD-ROM attached to the Z50 to install NetBSD onto a 1GB microdrive... (a 340MB microdrive, going for about $170 on ebay, is perfect, and will leave 110MB user space, even with a full NetBSD install!)
- the z50 is the most inexpensive wireless X11 terminal with a full keyboard and 640x480 (1280x960 if you use tvtwm!)... my favorite accessories:
D-Link DWL-650 wireless card
IBM microdrive(s)
Xircom CF Ethernet
Targus CF WWF card (serial i/o for my Moto StarTAC, so i can use the z50 for net access nearly anywhere in the U.S.)
Adaptec 1260D PCMCIA & Yamaha CDRW drive
192MB CF flash
i also keep a Linux distro on a 128MB CF card... unfortunately, while Linux supports the trackpoint, X, and audio, it will only use 16MB of RAM, even if 48MB is installed (4MB is a video hole)... on the other hand, the hpcmips port of NetBSD supports all installed memory (minus the hole), has trackpoint support, but no audio... right now, NetBSD is the best choice for this unit...
NetBSD now supports the TrackPoint pointer! use greg hughe's kernel at:
http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gl2hughe/
(get the Aug. 17 kernel)
where else can you get a laptop with UNIX, wireless Internet connectivity that runs for 16 hours? (i use the extended battery; the 1GB microdrive actually seems to use *less* power)
Linux/BSD fans would be well advised to snap up one of these jewels before they're GONE!
Time again for the Toad Enlightment Program
*BSD is dying
So is Linux. It's just a fucking kernel. BSD is a real OS. Deal with it!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers.
If IDC told you to jump off a cliff for your precious Linux kernel, would you do it? Please say yes, then follow through.
Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.
If Netcraft told you to fly an airplane into a skyscraper, would you do it?
*BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
Oooh. Sys Admin magazine. I'm so impressed. The word is 'Tuning'; look it up!
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future.
And you don't have to be Islamic to be a terrorist. Your point?
The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying.
Then so is GNU/Linux and every other Open Source, Free, WTFE (what the fuck ever) OS out there.
Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Speaking of blood, have you spilled yours yet?
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
You're kidding, right?
OpenBSD leader Theo (blah, blah, blah, yackety, schmakety, ...)
BORING! Can't you do better than parrot the typical bullshit on Usenet? Get a fucking life, please?
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI
BZZT! FreeBSD is not a business.
who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead,its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
BZZT! Non-sequitor. Your facts (sic) are uncoordinated.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share.
I can get anyone to kiss my ass and tell the world how sweet it is. So what?
*BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.
So is Linux.
If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers.
So is Linux.
*BSD continues to decay.
So does Linux.
Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time.
I use it and will continue to use it, therefore I AM GOD!
For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
For all practical purposes, you are still a braindead, fucking toad.
*BSD is dying
And so are you. Enough of your rattling, toadie boy. Your words are tiresome, your arguments are weak, and your relevance in this discussion is nonexistant. AWAY WITH YOU! BE GONE!
It's a very dark ride.
Not so much. They will probably still be legal in Canada, Europe, Mexico, everywhere else.... The US can't kill it on its own.
God save our Queen, and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf Forever!
If you really believe that, why don't you post it like a man, as a non-AC? Right now you sound like a racist white american. (Note the non-capatalised "american". It's a sign of disrespect of this incdividual, non all Americans)
God save our Queen, and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf Forever!
It seems that some people have been saying that Linux is dieing for quite some time. BSD didn't take long to catch up. Fact is, they wouldn't be so insistant on it if it was true, who cares if it's dieing if it really wasn't any threat in the first place?
:-)
Your point on NetCraft was good. Though *BSD isn't used on Webservers much (all that netcraft can determine), I have friends who use BSD for routing quite a lot, and due to the good ipv6 support I might use it for routing also if I had a spare box. Mostly I just don't have time to fool around with getting stuff working "desktop-like" on my machine, and my mom wouldn't appreciate it.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
Is there any reason to use NetBSD on a i386? I'm not asking this to troll, I just heard that FreeBSD is better on that platform and I wondered if that was true.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
I keep asking myself this: when are you going to die?
Just because you don't hear about it doesn't mean it's not happening. The BSDs have historically been put into place and have just worked.
I've noticed a lot of Linux users care more about the public opinion of their OS than how well it works for them. I've got at least nine heavily active BSD machines working in my house at all times. All of my corporate mail is filtered through two NetBSD machines. We've got NetBSD IDS machines in various places. NetBSD application servers, web servers, DNS servers. It'd take me a while to make an inventory, but I think we should all do our part to keep you better informed at what people are doing with their computers so you won't feel so bad about making a non-technical choice.
Did you consider that the reason you don't see as much usenet activity for things like NetBSD as you do for things like Linux is that NetBSD is very clearly documented and pretty much always Just Works? That's been the case in my usage, anyway. I've had nearly no trouble with the OS in the six or so years I've been using it (would've been around 1994 or 1995). When I have had a problem, a web search or usenet search would turn up the answer usually. Outside of that, there are the mailing lists. Did you look at those for activity?
Well, anyway. It's alive as long as one person wants to use it. Even if that's just me.
-- The world is watching America, and America is watching TV.
YHBT. YL. HAND.
(You Have Been Trolled. You Lose. Have A Nice Day.)
Please do not feed the trolls! Thank you.
No problems with the penguin here pud..why don't you go play with the heifers elsewhere?
Your mom sucks bad.
I had to knock her teeth out to keep her from biting.
*bsd is FUCKED.
Same bullshit, different hole
i first started runnning it back in july 1995, 2.0.5. i'll tell you right now, *IT'S SHIT*.
You were six then, right? I suppose the first Leeeeeeeeeeeeenux kernels were "SHIT" too.
what this guy is saying is true, but you bsd lewsers refuse to admit it.
The only thing I'll admit to is that I can't tell which of you the bigger retard.
(Remainder of post snipped 'cause it's sofa king lame)
It's a very dark ride.
Kill the wabbit,
kill the wabbit,
kill the wabbit,
kill the wabbit
-- performed to the music of Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
It's a very dark ride.
It's dead, Jim.
Deal with it. Grieve. Move on.