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

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Yes these are both ARM cpus and ARM cpus are supported, but the on-chip peripherals etc are not.

If I wanted to use NetBSD on OMAP I'd still have to do the chip support stuff (or pay to get it done). PXA250 is an obsolete part - where's the support for current PXA27x parts which are very different.

With Linux I can download OMAP and PXA27x support off the www.

NetBSD has some ports to VAX and Apollo - both 1980's hardware. Very useful I'm sure.

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.