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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:NetBSD-current by LizardKing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If only there were a native pkg for OpenOffice (recent - the earlier port did not work at all under -current for me).

    The Linux binary package of OpenOffice runs perfectly on my laptop, as does the Linux version of Sun's JDK 1.4.2_04. If you've not tried running stuff under Linux emulation before, then give it a whirl. I run Java and the NetBeans IDE on a 256Mb NetBSD laptop where it is totally usable. On my desktop machine (same RAM, similar CPU), it crawls under Linux.

    In short, Linux emulation under NetBSD seems to be far more resource friendly than running native under Linux. Performance isn't noticably different, and anecdotal evidence suggests it's actually faster.

    Chris