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NetBSD 2.0 Release Engineering Process Underway

Posted by Hemos on from the planning-the-release dept.

jschauma writes "James Chacon of the NetBSD Release Engineering team has announced that the Release Engineering process for the much awaited NetBSD 2.0 release has begun! At this time, the expected final release is scheduled for the end of May 2004. Please see James' message to the netbsd-announce mailinglist for details."

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  1. Re:I want NetBSD... by LizardKing · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a good chance it does work with your USB wifi adapter. I don't own any myself, but I've noticed plenty of discussions about them on the NetBSD mailing lists (mostly people adding quirks for more esoteric devices from what I recall).

    There should be a list of supported devices on the NetBSD website, although stuff that's only in -current may not be listed yet. If so, then you could either take a look at the GENERIC kernel config file, or ask on one of the excellent mailing lists.

    Chris

  2. Re:Preemptive BSD post by LizardKing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not sure what your getting at. I assume you're talking about comparisons between Scheduler Activations and the plethora of scheduler algorithms available for Linux. NetBSD's SA is not a conventional scheduler in the "new, expermental one every week" Linux sense. They are a sophisticated system that allows layering of higher level abstractions like POSIX threads.

    Chris

  3. Re:Great news! by bccomm · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, if you have a radeon or matrox card, you can get hardware acceleration. Just put

    X11DRI=yes
    -Bruce

  4. Re:ISO images by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not sure there will ever be "2.0 beta" ISO's. However, they're really easy to create yourself, and some users on the lists (current-users, I think: search http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/) are creating unofficial ones.

    To roll your own: Go to http://releng.netbsd.org/ to find out the latest sucessful build (so far, it's still -current, soon the 2.0 branch builds should appear), specifically at http://releng.netbsd.org/ab/B_HEAD/arch.html

    Look for your arch (i386, I'm guessing?) and note down the date of the "Last Success" build.

    Now go to ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/current/
    and download the contents of the directory corresponding to your architecture. Use wget -r, it'll be about 150M. You have everything to make a bootable CD at this point.

    See http://netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html on how to make a bootable CD out of what you just downloaded: actually, it's a single mkisofs command if you're doing it for i386:

    mkisofs -o output.iso \
    -b i386/installation/floppy/boot-big.fs \
    -c boot.catalog \
    -l -J -R -L /your/dir/with/the/data

    Make sure the resulting iso image has the arch directory (eg i386 or sparc) on the top level.

    Enjoy!
    Joachim Thiemann

  5. Re:OpenBSD's packer filter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Quote Luke Mewburn from newsforge.com interview:

    PF and IPF -- is there a religion war?

    Not really. I prefer IPF myself, but that's probably because I know Darren Reed personally so I can ask him IPF questions in person :-) IPF is portable across many platforms, including various commercial Unix variants, and that is a benefit for heterogenous sites with those systems.

    http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/02 /1 946219

    Of course it rocks - NetBSD. by alph.