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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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NetBSD Toaster
I read
I find a hard time keeping track of all the *BSDs. There's
OpenBSD
NetBSD
FreeBSD
I also see DeadBSD a lot here on /. Can't find the website to download.
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
Just think, they get laid about as offten as they reboot. Never.
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.
Linux.org lists 415 Linux distributions. Four hundred fifteen! Just take the most common ones, like Suse and Red Hat, and exchange executables or configuration files between them. At least you can do that with the listed BSD distributions.
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.
who loves BSD! I still do!
me too! but seriously, i run 2.0.2/current at home on a couple of boxes (along with slackware and *gasp* w2k) and its great. small, stable, elegant, has a wide selection of packages (with stellar management, i might add) and a whole array of nice toys to play with. its strongest point, imho, is the separation of the base system from the extra software, which also goes for the other younger bsds out there.in other news pkgsrc on SFU updated, the new pf from obsd/3.8 is getting ported, there is also a kernel emulator for fbsd/5+ and a smbus implementation. matlab works too and some people might be interested in a list of translations for the `of course it runs netbsd' motto.
what else can be said, its great that *the* bsd is still alive
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
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
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 #!
I don't switch exactly, but each bsd seems to have a niche on certain hardware. NetBSD is the fastest os i've ever used on sparc hardware and openbsd runs great on g3 macs. I tend to run FreeBSD on ia32 hardware.
MidnightBSD: The BSD for Everyone
NetBSD is very fast for certain operations and is often used in networking research (internet2, ipv6, etc). If you don't have an SMP box or hyperthreading its quite fast and in my opinion the best os on sparc architectures. The ports system is a bit different. They have something called pkgsrc thats portable across operating systems. All bsds have a twist on the ports collection really. Its a big factor in choosing.
I'm a FreeBSD user primarily and I think NetBSD has some good points like major portability. I think they do more testing and its generally a more stable OS. FreeBSD 6.0 release should fix most of the recent problems. Think of NetBSD like a continuation of FreeBSD 4.x more. There are a lot of differences, but mostly small things. FreeBSD 5 and 6 are attempts to improve dual core, SMP, and hyperthreading based computers in the long haul.
NetBSD and FreeBSD people don't tend to get along simply becuase there's real competition lately between the two projects. Both are great operating systems and I think both are good at different tasks. If you plan on running a bsd on non ia32 hardware, definetely check out NetBSD. It might be worth trying it just to see if there are any unique features. If you are a programmer and like freebsd more, you can help out and add some of the great netbsd features to freebsd or vise versa.
MidnightBSD: The BSD for Everyone
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