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NetBSD 5.0 RC1 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the while-it's-hot dept.

jschauma writes "The first release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for download from the NetBSD FTP site. Here is the Release Engineering status of 5.0."

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  1. But how green is it? by mangu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a lot of hardware that would have been relegated to scrap if it hadn't been for NetBSD

    Recycling is good, of course. But is it worthwile? How much power do all those old computers drain, compared to a new server with the same processing capacity?

    Where I work, we replaced a couple of PDP-11 computers with PCs for the energy savings alone, even if there was a cost associated with migrating the software.