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NetBSD 5.0 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the come-and-get-it dept.

kl76 writes "The NetBSD Project have announced the release of NetBSD 5.0 after two years of development. Highlights of the seven million new lines of code in 5.0 include a new threads implementation, kernel preemption, a new scheduler, POSIX real-time scheduling, message queues and asynchronous I/O, WAPBL metadata journaling for FFS filesystems, improved ACPI support, UDF write support, X.Org instead of XFree86 (on some platforms — at last!) and lots of driver updates. Binary distributions for 53 different platforms are provided."

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  1. 7 million new lines of code? by gzipped_tar · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's $28 million/month in total!!!!!!

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    1. Re:7 million new lines of code? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1, Funny

      You gotta love those guys. Of course, it shows that they love eating C for breakfast. (Must be those C-reals... :-)) Now excuse me, I am going to worship them in course of an OS installation.

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    2. Re:7 million new lines of code? by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 4, Funny

      "1.5.2 completely destroyed my gentoo X a few months ago when I tried installing kde-4.2. Apparently fglrx didn't support 1.5.x yet?!"

      Well thar's your problem, that's like The Perfect Storm, linux edition!

      I jest, I jest...

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  2. Bring Out Yer Dead by chill · · Score: 5, Funny

    NETCRAFT:
            Bring out your dead!
            [clang]
            Bring out your dead!
    CUSTOMER:
            Here's one.
    NETCRAFT:
            Ninepence.
    NETBSD:
            I'm not dead!
    NETCRAFT:
            What?
    CUSTOMER:
            Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
    NETBSD:
            I'm not dead!
    NETCRAFT:
            'Ere. He says he's not dead!
    CUSTOMER:
            Yes, he is.
    NETBSD: Bring out your dead!
            [clang]
            Bring out your dead!
            [clang]
            Bring out your dead!
            [clang]
            I'm not!
    NETCRAFT:
            He isn't?
    CUSTOMER:
            Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
    NETBSD:
            I'm getting better!
    CUSTOMER:
            No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
    NETCRAFT:
            Oh, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
    NETBSD:
            I don't want to go on the cart!
    CUSTOMER:
            Oh, don't be such a baby.
    NETCRAFT:
            I can't take him.
    NETBSD:
            I feel fine!
    CUSTOMER:
            Well, do us a favour.
    NETCRAFT:
            I can't.
    CUSTOMER:
            Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
    NETCRAFT:
            No, I've got to go to FreeBSD. They've lost nine today.
    CUSTOMER:
            Well, when's your next round?
    NETCRAFT:
            Thursday.
    NETBSD:
            I think I'll go for a walk.
    CUSTOMER:
            You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn't there something you can do?
    NETBSD: [singing]
            I feel happy. I feel happy.
            [whop]
    CUSTOMER:
            Ah, thanks very much.
    NETCRAFT:
            Not at all. See you on Thursday.
    CUSTOMER:
            Right. All right.
            [howl]
            [clop clop clop]
            Who's that, then?
    NETCRAFT:
            I dunno. Must be Tux.
    CUSTOMER:
            Why?
    NETCRAFT:
            He hasn't got shit all over him.

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  3. Re:But the real question... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course it will. Toasting multiple toasts simultaneously is now supported, as well as suspending and resuming the toasting process. If toasting fails, the toasts will now be rolled back into the original raw state.

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  4. Re:But the real question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't put toast in a toaster, btw.

  5. Re:But the real question... by the_humeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    And how exactly do you know that K. S. Kyosuke does not put toast in his toaster? For your information I always buy my bread pre-toasted and then put them in my toaster.

  6. Re:But the real question... by GaryOlson · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...rolled back into the original raw state

    Would that be called the undough or redough function?

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  7. I know of a very famous NetBSD project! by jonaskoelker · · Score: 2, Funny

    See this older post: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/11/1754253