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NetBSD 3.1 and 3.0.2 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fresh-daemons dept.

hubertf writes, "The NetBSD release engineering team has announced that the NetBSD 3.1 and 3.0.2 releases are now available. NetBSD 3.1 contains many bugfixes, security updates, new drivers, and new features like support for Xen3 DomU. NetBSD 3.0.2 is the second security/critical update of the NetBSD 3.0 release branch which includes a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons. See the NetBSD 3.1 Release Announcement and the NetBSD 3.0.2 Release Announcement for more information."

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  1. Re:I don't get it by LizardKing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've found doing anything in *BSD is more painful than it should be.

    I'm struggling to think of an example. For instance, installing init scripts for third party software is far more painful on Linux:

    cp foo.sh /etc/init.d/
    ln /etc/init.d/foo.sh /etc/rcS.d/K69foo
    ln /etc/init.d/foo.sh /etc/rc0.d/K69foo
    ln /etc/init.d/foo.sh /etc/rc1.d/K69foo
    ln /etc/init.d/foo.sh /etc/rc2.d/K69foo
    ln /etc/init.d/foo.sh /etc/rc3.d/S69foo
    /etc/init.d/foo.sh start

    Unless your Linux distribution supports one of the other half-baked init schemes of course.

    Meanwhile, on NetBSD it's:

    cp foo.sh /etc/rc/
    vi /etc/rc.conf (add the line foo=YES)
    /etc/rc/foo start

    Basically, anything administrative I can think of is more tedious or complex on Linux than on NetBSD.