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NetBSD 2.0 Status Report

Posted by michael on from the not-dying dept.

Daniel de Kok writes "James Chacon of the NetBSD release engineering team has sent a report covering the status of the NetBSD 2.0 branch to the netbsd-announce mailinglist. The report contains a schedule for the release cycle, and a list of 2.0-specific bugs that need to be closed. This is still a good time to help us making this the best NetBSD release ever, by trying out the latest snapshots, and reporting bugs."

2 of 40 comments (clear)

  1. Re:IP Filter bugs by alan_d_post · · Score: 5, Informative

    PF is already in -current. It won't be in 2.0, though.

  2. Bloated GENERIC kernel by LizardKing · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're finding that the GENERIC kernel is too bloated, then the quick fix is to create a custom kernel usung the adjustkernel script. This parses the output of dmesg, and creates a custom kernel config file with only the devices found on your machine enabled.

    On my laptop, I was able to pare the kernel down to 1.8Mb. Not such a big deal on a machine with 512Mb of RAM, but it's useful on something like my Vax which only has 24Mb.