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NetBSD 2.1 Released
jschauma writes "NetBSD for everyone! Lots of news
regarding new NetBSD releases: On October 31st, 2005, NetBSD 2.0.3, a
source-only security update of the NetBSD 2.0 release, was announced.
Since many people are still somewhat confused by the new versioning scheme
used in NetBSD, this release was preceeded by an
explanation of the NetBSD branches. Only two days after the 2.0.3
announcement, on November 2nd, 2005, NetBSD
2.1 was released. NetBSD
2.1 is the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch, and
was announced with binary distributions for 54 architectures. Primary means
of distribution include bittorrent."
jschauma continues, "Not
entirely by coincidence, a number of security
advisories was released almost simultaneously, which for the most part
have been fixed in these two latest releases. However, since the release
engineering process could not be delayed even further, there are three
advisories that affect even NetBSD 2.1 -- a security update on this branch (ie
NetBSD 2.1.1) is expected to be released very soon as well. Finally, the
NetBSD release engineering team also released an update of revised
estimate for the release date of NetBSD 3.0, the next major release which
will bring a number of new features. Please consider making a tax-deductible (in the US)
donation to support NetBSD."
NetBSD 3.0 is also coming in a few weeks (end of November).
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A really obscure architecture they don't support?
Consoles, Handhelds, Toasters?
nobody can think of anything to qualify as +5 Funny..
Is it more time-effective to work on security patches for NetBSD or to upgrade the three or four affected machines to Gentoo?
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
the crickets on this thread....who loves BSD! I still do!
I hope my usb keyboard and my netgear nic are supported.
I may have to wait for netbsd 3.0. Its fustrating and my nic worked with linux 2.0.
http://saveie6.com/
Just think, they get laid about as offten as they reboot. Never.
I think you've stumbled into the wrong place. linux.slashdot.org is just down the hall, to your left.
*ducks and runs* I kid! I kid!
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
MMU-less CPUs and/or itanium (this one has been started i think), s390, FR-V, nec v-850, 64-bit MIPS, super-h, all of them supported by Linux. Of course netbsd also supports lots of architectures that linux doesn't but that doesn't means netbsd supports "everything". Linux also has pretty good support for everything that IBM uses.
Due to the recent release of more advanced and secure OpenBSD 3.8, I suspect that NetBSD 2.1 is stealing codes from OpenBSD.
Oh wait, both of them were derived from the same codebase and are under BSD license...
I actually have a VAX and no tape drive (nor any machine that could load NetBSD onto a tape drive). Without some way to get NetBSD onto it, it's pretty much a paperweight. I have a Linux box and a SCSI card, so I could install that way, except that doesn't seem to be an option.
I find a hard time keeping track of all the *BSDs.
There are THREE (not counting DragonFly BSD)
OpenBSD = Secure
FreeBSD = Feature-Rich
NetBSD = Portable (54 Architectures?!)
Contrast that to the seventeen-jillion Linux distros out there; I hardly think folks can complain about being confused by the overwhelming multitude (NOT!) of BSD derivatives.
Seriously, though. I like to tell people BSD stands for "Better Stripped Down" 'cuz if you need a small server, running on commodity (read: "used") hardware, BSD will serve you very well.
You don't want your firewall running OOo, or come standard with seven different mail readers. Lean and mean, that's BSD's selling point.
I still run FreeBSD on my server. Yes, any other distribution of Linux/BSD would do just fine, but I just find FreeBSD is more at home.
Oh wait, it was my first Unix varient. Oops.
...run on my playstation 2 linux kit?
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/playstation2/
I'm a linux newbie, I'm still learning bash and gnu/posix; what's the advantage of netBSD/BSDs over linux?
Guess you missed the install document detailing how to netboot a VAX.
X -netboot-HOWTO.html
http://vaxarchive.pimpworks.org/swdist/bsd/bdc/VA
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
... on a slightly related topic, anyone know how the hell to get *BSD installed on an HP/Compaq laptop (specifically the HP zv6000)?
... then I'm going to have to eat your brain. It doesn't work.
And if you say the following, as they have been in the mailing list:
set hw.acpi.skip_timer_override="1"
set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9"
set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
However, if you are trying to draw a distinction between the BSD license and a free license such as the GPL, you might have a point.
But then there's always that slim, slim chance you have neither a point, nor a clue how open source works.
you had me at #!
Two of most my favourate OS released in close proximity to each other. Yay :)
Anyone else here find they often switch back and forth between BSD's ?
I've been using FreeBSD for many years, and I admit to having never tried NetBSD. Could anyone convince me of a reason why I should try it, why it may be better than FreeBSD, what advantages it holds over other BSDs?
May this post be indexed by spiders, and archived for all to see as my Internet epitaph.
It looks like they're still using XFree86. Are they planning to change?
*silence*
IIRC gxemul can emulate a PS2...
http://gavare.se/gxemul/
- Hubert
I've always wondered, is there some web repository or list I could look at to see what current versions of software is available on the various releases of the BSDs?
Linux is only useful on either a $300 crap box or a high end mainframe? WTF are you talking about? Anything in the middle and your better off with another OS?
"To summorize, its like asking why linux is better than windows to me. (linux is obviously better) "
Really? I guess you must own one of those crap walmart boxes then.
Your post has a few truths and a lots of BS. It's really unhelpful for someone truly interested in the differences between netbsd and linux.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
So you see the linux system is flawed in one sense.. the kernel is not tied to the userland (software that you run).
You don't know what you are talking about. Both BSD and Linux interface with 'userland' the same ways, through device drivers and the C library.
There's an effort among the BSD zealots to replace every GNU program with a BSD licensed replacement.
Such people are in the minority. The GNU Core Utilities are generally regarded as superior to their BSD counterparts. Indeed it was the builtin limitations of BSD utilities motivated many of the standards to which GNU software is written. May I also point out that BSD uses the GNU compiler stack. It won't be easy to purge BSD of that, unless you still fancy programming in old style C on the PDP-11.
Its a big pissing match. You can love linux and not like the GNU and i think most people fall into this category that give kudos to linux.
The only ones left pissing are the BSD fanboys. The GNU/Linux folks are too busy.
If this weren't true, everyone would be working on GNU/Hurd right now.
Stallman himself has said that he wouldn't have pursued Hurd if the Linux kernel has been available when the Hurd project was launched. There is no controversy.
an ill wind that blows no good
You don't know what you're talking about. I've installed and run Linux on probably 70 different machines from el-crappo PCs, high end PCs, laptops, low and middle end servers... Runs beautifully on all of them. You should try it some time.
richard stallman is the guy that made this all possible. His vision is to give everyone NEXTSTEP by duplicating software from 1988 that steve jobs had and rebranding it GNU/Mach GNU/Hurd and using the GNUSTEP and windowmaker software to accomplish his task. Someday we'll have free NEXTSTEP.
See above: This is complete rubbish. For Stallman's vision, see gnu.org and fsf.org.
you had me at #!