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NetBSD 1.6.1 Release Process Has Begun
jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that NetBSD 1.6.1 has been branched
and the release engineering process has begun. NetBSD 1.6.1 is a maintenance
(or patch) release for users of NetBSD 1.6, not to be confused with
NetBSD-current (which will become the next major release). As a patch release, it is not branched off the head of the CVS source tree, but instead includes all security fixes and patches applied to the 1.6 branch. A complete list of changes since 1.6 is available in src/doc/CHANGES-1.6.1 of
the branch, which can be checked out by passing the -rnetbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC1 flag to the cvs command: cvs -rnetbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC1 co src.
Details on the release cycle and status information is available from www.netbsd.org/releng/releng-1.6.html."
Well, almost the whole MCS School at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand use it. And they have at least 150 Intel boxes running it. Thats where I first used it, and how I got into *NIX.
Incorrect conclusion. Going by these comments, very few slashdot readers use NetBSD. In fact, I'm willing to bet that the majority of the slashdot GNU/hippies that rant on and on against Microsoft and fawn over Linux are all too happy to activate their Windows XP and click about in their MSIE. I make this judgment from the complete dearth of technical information in slashdot comment pages.
Of course, this is quite hypocritical of me as here I am adding no useful technical information. In all honesty, I've never had the chance to use NetBSD for any significant task. I know (and love) FreeBSD and OpenBSD inside and out I've only put NetBSD on esoteric machines that don't run the other BSDs quite as well (really old Macs and Sparcs).
Anyway, congratulations to the NetBSD folks. The next time I need to do something useful with strange hardware, I know where to look.
Give it a try. It really doesn't matter what kind of machine you have, as long as it's 32 bit and supports an Memory Mapping Unit, it should work ;)
Success is as dangerous as failure, hope as hollow as fear.
Well, I'm surprised by the figures I read here. I use netBSD since september last year and it's been a good experience ever since. It gave me what I was looking for on Linux, a small footprint after the installation and I guess that's not what linux is about anymore, hence the 5-7 CD-set on most of the distributions. Burning just another set of iso's just to give another linux-flavour a try isn't my idea of efficiency. But hey, we all have fat pipes and fat systems, haven't we? So who cares about a small footprint and a 5 iso download? Well, I do... In the meantime I'll be happy with my netBSD bootfloppy and a ftp-install to match.