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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