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NetBSD 2.0 RC4 Tagged and Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-the-bsdies-in-the-audience dept.

agent dero writes "According to recent news at NetBSD.org, NetBSD 2.0 Release Candidate #4 has been tagged and released to the release engineering server Check out the announcement for more info on changes since RC 3. Also note worthy, the final release has been pushed back a few weeks to allow for testing of RC4"

5 of 74 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Significant changes from NetBSD 1.6 to 2.0
    http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/changes-2.0.htm l

  2. Re:Question by noselasd · · Score: 5, Informative

    2.0 major new features.
    + they've decided to change the versioning scheme ;)

  3. Re:Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    They decided long ago to call the first version with decent SMP support (on i386) version 2.0. So here it is :-) (almost...).

  4. Re:Microreleases by Dahan · · Score: 3, Informative

    I tend to agree, but Slashdot posted a series of articles about Linux kernel 2.5.n and FreeBSD 5.3-BETAn, so I guess beta OS releases are deemed newsworthy here.

  5. Re:Verified Exec by noselasd · · Score: 2, Informative

    >I've been looking for something like this for Linux some time ago. Anyone here know if it exists?
    here