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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."

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  1. IP Filter bugs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I found it interesting that most of the bugs in the 2.0 branch were with IP Filter.

    1. Re:IP Filter bugs by debilo · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Not most, but quite a few. I wonder why they don't start working on importing pf from OpenBSD, FreeBSD started working on that a long time ago. Maybe it's a NetBSD vs. Theo thing, which would be a shame. I'm looking quite forward to pf on FreeBSD, which should be quite stable on 5.3 (and it's only around the corner! Code freeze is scheduled for Aug. 15th, as far as I know).

      Anyway, I've used OpenBSD and FreeBSD for quite some time now, and only recently tried out NetBSD. What can I say? Their hardware support is amazing, it pretty much recognized everything on my Samsung X10, and it's been very, very stable this far. I'm quite in love with it. :) The only thing I don't like is the bloated GENERIC kernel, it takes way longer to boot that with OpenBSD or FreeBSD but that's probably the price you pay for good hardware support on installation, and you can always roll your own kernel. I'm pretty excited about NetBSD 2.0. Hurry up, guys!