NetBSD 1.5ZB

Dahan writes: "I just saw that the development branch of NetBSD is now at version 1.5ZB. A change log is available for those interested. Note that although the title of the page says it's a list of changes from NetBSD 1.5 to 1.6, NetBSD 1.6 is not out yet--the page lists changes that will be in 1.6 whenever it's released. (And when will that be? "When it's ready," of course.) Standard caution about not running development kernels on mission-critical systems applies, although I've been running 1.5ZA on my DEC^H^H^HCompaq Alpha PC164 web/mail/DNS/whatever server for a few months now, and it's been great. And for those of you used to the Linux version numbering scheme and are wondering what all these letters mean, here's an explanation of NetBSD's version numbering."

Comments

NetBSD stopped being useful once I forked OpenBSD.

[Theo DeRaadt]

NetBSD, for all the merits that it had in its early releases, no longer serves a real purpose. When I took the code after being locked out of the development team and made something useful out of it, it only inspired more jealousy from their corner. They were left bickering like old women while I created a more open system where everyone could contribute and no one would have to go out of their way to secure their default install.

What business does anyone have with running UNIX on something so esoteric and outdated as an FIC8234? Is "portability" really an asset when the only platforms it supports that the rest of the UNIX world doesn't are so obsolete that it would be faster and cheaper to simply buy an old Pentium machine? What else does NetBSD have going for it? They were good for a USB system (which was the first of its kind in the UNIX world and is much less broken than it's Linux equivalent) and what else?

Frankly, I think that NetBSD has reached its endgame. There are only so many platforms you can port to until you have it running on your toaster. And frankly, I think its unprofessional to let things like SMP support or a decent packaging system slide while focusing on porting to platform after deficient platform. I have only one question: when I install NetBSD on my toaster one day, how many keys/second will it do for Distributed.net?

Good job...

[LiquidPC]

making sure to notify slashdot that just because there are lists of changes on a web site IT ISNT OUT, because frankly we've already gone through fake posts like that before. They expect money by subscriptions yet they cant even check story authenticy. Disturbing.