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NetBSD 1.5.3 Released, 1.6 On The Way

Posted by timothy on from the runs-on-hearing-aids-toasters-thermostats dept.

djcdplaya writes: "The highly portable NetBSD has reached a new milestone. OSNews.com is reporting that NetBSD 1.5.3 has been released. 1.5.3 was released correcting some bugs and adding some additional security. It also has improved device driver support." Part of the same announcement: "Please note that a new major release of NetBSD, version 1.6, is currently in beta test and should be released within a few weeks.

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  1. Re:Lets Thank All the Developers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, I think you misunderstand a few things.

    RMS has little to do with NetBSD (but GCC amd other GNU tools are used in NetBSD).

    Linus T. has exactly nothing to do with NetBSD.

    ESR is a prominent BSD hater.

    NetBSD is _not_ Linux (and hopefully will never be)