NetBSD 1.6.1 Released

jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.6.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available . NetBSD 1.6.1 is a maintenance release for users of NetBSD 1.6 and earlier, with binary releases for 40 ports, and of course also including NetBSD's Packages Collection. A complete list of changes can be found in CHANGES-1.6.1. Please use a mirror close to you."

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The changes....

[Anonymous Coward]

Major Changes Between 1.6 and 1.6.1
The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES-1.6.1 file in the top directory of the source tree. Some highlights include:

Kernel

* Support for some newer Ultra/133 controllers has been added to pciide(4).
* Hardware random number support for some Intel chipsets has been added.
* Support for additional Adaptec RAID controllers has been added to aac(4).
* A number of bugs in the VM system have been fixed.
* Bug fixes to audio(4), dpt(4), eap(4), emuxki(4), iop(4), siop(4) and umass(4).
* Some Linux compatibility bugs have been fixed.
* A number of USB bugs have been fixed.

Networking

* IPv6 fixes to various tools.
* Bug fixes to the fxp(4), sip(4), tlp(4), rtk(4), wi(4) and xi(4) drivers.
* Enhancements to the aue(4), fxp(4), pcn(4), wi(4) and wm(4) drivers.
* A driver for Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet cards has been added, bge(4).
* IP Filter has been updated to 3.4.29 and bugs fixed.
* Some IPsec bugs have been fixed (from KAME).
* Some ftpd(8) interoperability bugs have been fixed.
* A number of pppoe(4) bugs have been fixed.

File Systems

* A number of FFS and NFS bugs have been fixed.
* Some NFSv3 fixes have been applied to amd(8).
* Some fsck(8) bugs have been fixed.

Security

* BIND has been updated to 8.3.4 and security patches applied to named(8) and the libc resolver.
* Various security patches have been applied to sendmail.
* OpenSSL has been updated to 0.9.6g and a number of security patches applied.
* A potential buffer overflow in zlib has been fixed.
* Buffer overflow bugs in file(1) have been fixed.
* Some Kerberos 4 security bugs have been addressed.
* A umask security problem in GNU tar(1) has been fixed.

System administration and user tools

* Various bugs in user(8) have been fixed.
* The pkg_* tools have been updated, adding new features and fixing a number of bugs.

Miscellaneous

* Bug fixes to sysinst, the NetBSD installer.
* Various fixes to the toolchain and build process.
* Various fixes to the rc.d subsystem.
* A large number of sparc64 fixes have been applied.
* Timezone files have been updated to tz2002d.
* Many new packages have been added to The NetBSD packages collection, including the latest open source desktop KDE3, OpenOffice.org, as well as a large number of bugs fixed, many addressing security issues.

And of course there have also been innumerable bug fixes and other miscellaneous enhancements.

Re:Gotta love the BSDs

[mnmn]

No I'm trying Mesa OpenGL using SDL. The riva drivers of standard XFree4 will work for a Geforce, but not take the full advantage. On a Geforce3, theres a programmable GPU, that can be used to support the GUI code too.