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."

Comments

Cool

[rjamestaylor]

I loved NetBSD on my Workpad z50 and look forward to trying this new version on the Thinkpad 750 (486 DX with 8BM RAM and 350 MB HD) I just got from eBay. It's great to turn these "out of date" machines into powerful multiuser network servers.

Refreshing news.

"Rapid bug-fix"

[heyetv]

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...

Re:Great!

[Jace of Fuse!]

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.

Don't post FTP URLs please

[Matthew Luckie]

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

Re:What OS?

[Brilldon]

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

That's great

[MadCamel]

But will it run on my ti85 calculator yet? :)

Re:BSD _is_ dying

[fluedke]

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 :))

Re:Why so many "ports"

[gr]

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).

Re:What OS?

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

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.