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NetBSD 1.5.2 Released

Posted by Nik on from the security-fix-release dept.

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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  1. "Rapid bug-fix" by heyetv · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...

  2. Re:Great! by Jace+of+Fuse! · · Score: 4, Informative

    From the FREEBSD.ORG site...

    We will continue to bring you new releases from both our FreeBSD-stable and FreeBSD-current branches, both as developer's snapshots and as regular full releases. The next scheduled release on the -stable branch will be FreeBSD 4.4 on September 15, 2001. The first release on what is now the -current branch will be FreeBSD 5.0, scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2002.

    So it looks like FreeBSD 4.4 will be tomorrow... but I suppose a day early is possible.

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  3. Re:What OS? by Brilldon · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a good comparison of all of the common *BSDs. I hope this helps.
    http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html

  4. Re:Why so many "ports" by gr · · Score: 5, Informative
    If a change is made in the amiga tree, for example, my guess is that it's not automatically picked up by the other 68k ports.
    Fortunately, that's utterly false. The majority of port-specific stuff is Makefiles and things that really are specific to a given platform. (The booter on mac68k is wildly different from that on amiga, for instance... and don't even get me started on various vendors' proprietary hardware buses.) The vast majority of the code works fine, especially as regards peripheral support. (If a "mac-only" Firewire card gets supported, it gets supported on everything with a PCI bus.)

    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...
    I have that same motherboard in a cube, and I hope to be hacking on it within a few months. Drop me a line at gr at eclipsed dot net if you'd like to help (or just subscribe to port-next68k@netbsd.org and contribute).
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  5. Re:What OS? by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 3, Informative
    In a nutshell:


    FreeBSD - Balls out performance on x86

    NetBSD - Ported to everything with 32 bits.

    OpenBSD - Best on default security.


    There are other differences obviously such as ported software and the like, but at a high level, these are the major diffs.