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NetBSD 2.0 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the unix-on-a-microwave dept.

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.

2 of 574 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What are NetBSD's strengths? by ArbitraryConstant · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Rather, it's just as secure as OpenBSD"

    No, it's not.

    -a great deal less of the privsep stuff
    -no propolice
    -no W^X

    A number of vulnerabilities common to NetBSD and OpenBSD were mitigated by ProPolice on OpenBSD. That was 1.6... but I didn't see anything about propolice on the 2.0 release page.

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    I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
  2. The arithmetic game. by Eil · · Score: 0, Redundant


    NetBSD 2.0 is the tenth major release of the NetBSD Operating System

    Er, I'd argue that as the major version number is 2, this would make it only the second major release.