NetBSD 2.0 Released

Quique writes "NetBSD 2.0 is the tenth major release of the NetBSD Operating System, and has just been released. It can be downloaded from one of the mirror sites. NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports fifty four different system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. NetBSD 2.0 continues the long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, major security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals." The release announcement is also available.

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Great for mini-processors

[LM741N]

I can see many microcontrollers going this route. One of the cheapest (and oldest) ways to get a u-controller up and running was to buy one of the 8086 based mini-boards and program it with the old Borland Turbo C.

Now with NetBSD, the same kind of boards could have a mini BSD OS, that could use all the free tools to have a more robust design. I'm not incredibly familiar with NetBSD, but I imagine they do have "real-time" control software for these small processors. Great job. And now of course the choice of processors is very large.

Re:Quique: NetBSD 2.0 Released

[plasticsquirrel]

It's sort of ironic that a story about a dead operating system was submitted by someone with whose user name comes from a dead language...

Is it? Maybe I'm not laughing because I just don't understand the constant need to disrespect everyone else's favorite Linux/BSD distro.

For many architectures there is no other modern operating system available, let alone a powerful open source Unix-like system. I think that NetBSD, although it has a relatively small user base, plays an important part in the open source community in this respect. Can't we all appreciate the fact that such a ported and portable open source operating system like NetBSD exists?

I wonder what sort of insecurities you have about your own operating system fuel your need to trash a such a benign project.

Re:Quique: NetBSD 2.0 Released

[Anonymous Coward]

It's sort of ironic that a story about a dead operating system was submitted by someone with whose user name comes from a dead language... Don't you think?

No.

Irony is an incongruity between what's to be expected and what actually happens. If NetBSD truly were a dead operating system, what's so incongruent about a fan of a dead language posting an article about a dead operating system? I vaguely recall something about "birds of a feather" banding together and forming small social orders based on similarities or something like that, so there's nothing surprising about a fan of an alleged dead language posting an article about an alleged OS.

Or were we playing buzzword-bingo and I missed the part where they handed out the game charts?

Re:54 hippy architectures ... because no GPL?

[Brandybuck]

NetBSD isn't under GPL which I guess is a good reason why ports to things like OMAP and PXA27x are not in the public domain.

Do you know what "public domain" even is? Any software under the GPL is specifically *NOT* in the public domain.

Re:No G5 support

[Nimrangul]

Well, Dale doesn't count as a member of the NetBSD crew as he does OpenBSD's PPC stuff; though I suppose that is good advise for us all:

Ignore any people that say they will help you by porting your operating system of choice to some new hardware if you help them get it folks. And for God's sake, whatever you do, don't donate 25 bucks to any causes you happen to believe in.

Really, all we're doing is giving this sad little man the attention he wants, if we ignore Dale surely he will do all the porting himself and support all the Apple hardware within minutes. This is obviously just him trying to be an attention whore, it's so apparent to me now.

Thank you Anonymous Coward, your jackassery has shown me the light! Surely Linus can afford to buy every kind of computer in the world! I'm off to the Linux section to call Richard and Linus teabaggers and teabaggees for doing free software developement! There I shall call every Linux fundraiser and developer names and proclaim the death of free software!

Huzzah!