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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
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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."
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.
BSD might not be dead, but people sure don't have a lot to say about it these days. WTF?
Joe
http://www.joegrossberg.com
I was weaned on slackware, then tried FreeBSD and got hooked. Been learning the drivers code of the FreeBSDs lately, to try and add some tokenring cards to em, especially to OpenBSD, so I could use BSD again on my machine. Sadly, will have to stick to FreeBSD till nVidia opensources the Geforce drivers.
A lotta people using Linux and Solaris are torn between idealism (BSD) and pragmatism (M$), instead of being just Penguin zealots
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
NetBSD Rules!
Theo De Raadt suc...oh, this is NetBSD, they're on the side of sanity.
DON'T USE OPENBSD, it's just a ripoff of NetBSD with some useless security crap bolted on!!!!!
That is all.