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NetBSD 2.0 RC5 Tagged

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the bsd-everywhere dept.

ulib writes "NetBSD 2.0_RC5 has now been tagged. Changes since RC4 include fixes to various COMPAT_ emulations, IP Filter backward compatibility fixes, XFree86, pax(1), rsh(1), hp300 boot blocks, pthread fixes for amd64 and i386, documentation updates. Binary snapshots of NetBSD 2.0_RC5 are available in the daily builds directory on the main FTP site."

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  1. Re:1 comment? by wooby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Posting works. It's morning EST; the nerds slumber. I for one am pumped about 2.0. I'm a recent convert from Linux and I like NetBSD's installer as well as its bloat and crap-free default software arsenal.

    With Fluxbox, the GNU coreutils, and bash, my P133 makes a reasonable desktop workstation. Though Linux would work, the low hard-drive footprint of a NetBSD install is what makes the installation trouble-free. Comparable modern Linux distros seem to me to take time to whittle down to a sub-300MB install. With NetBSD, the core system with XFree uses only 290.

  2. Licensing aside by HighOrbit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Licensing aside, most of the development seems to be happening at X.Org and that is a good reason to migrate.