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| 2009-08-02 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 5.0.1 |
| Soren Jacobsen has announced the release of NetBSD 5.0.1: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 5.0.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 5.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for security or stability reasons. Please note that all fixes in security/critical updates (i.e., NetBSD 5.0.1, 5.0.2, etc.) are cumulative, so the latest update contains all such fixes since the corresponding minor release. These fixes will also appear in future minor releases (i.e., NetBSD 5.1, 5.2, etc.), together with other less-critical fixes and feature enhancements." See the detailed release notes for a complete list of all changes, security fixes and known issues. Installation CD images for 42 processor architectures are available for download from the project's FTP mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images (SHA512): i386cd-5.0.1.iso (229MB, torrent), amd64cd-5.0.1.iso (242MB, torrent). |
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| 2009-04-29 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 5.0 |
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| The NetBSD project has announced the release of NetBSD 5.0: "The NetBSD project is pleased to announce that NetBSD 5.0, the thirteenth release of the NetBSD operating system, is now available. NetBSD 5.0 features greatly improved performance and scalability on modern multiprocessor (SMP) and multi-core systems. In addition to scalability and performance improvements, a significant number of major features have been added. Some highlights are: a preview of metadata journaling for FFS file systems (known as WAPBL), the jemalloc memory allocator, X.Org instead of XFree86 on a number of ports, the Power Management Framework, ACPI suspend/resume support on many laptops, write support for UDF file systems...." See the release announcement and release notes for a full list of changes and new features. Installation CD images for 42 processor architectures are available from NetBSD's main FTP server and its mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd-5.0.iso (229MB, MD5, torrent), amd64cd-5.0.iso (242MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2009-04-17 |
Development Release: NetBSD 5.0 RC4 |
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| Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for NetBSD 5.0, a BSD operating system designed to run on a large number of processor architectures: "Today, we have two things to be happy about. First, the fourth release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is available for download. Second, this announcement, like RC3's, coincides with an important birthday: that of Billy West. Below are some highlighted changes since RC3: added the RLIMIT_AS resource, which limits the total address space available to processes; improved NFS server stability; FFS improvements; a fix for a pf(4) DoS; re(4) now works with the RealTek 8111C, which is found on many current motherboards with Intel chipsets. As usual, src/doc/CHANGES-5.0 has the full details." Here is the brief release announcement. As usual, CD images for 41 processor architectures are available from NetBSD's FTP server and its mirrors. Two quick links to the i386 and amd64 installation CD images: i386cd.iso (229MB), amd64cd.iso (241MB). |
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| 2009-03-22 |
Development Release: NetBSD 5.0 RC3 |
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| Celebrating NetBSD's 16th birthday, Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the third release candidate for NetBSD 5.0: "Today, on the 16th birthday of NetBSD, I have the pleasure of announcing the availability of NetBSD 5.0 RC3. Below are some highlighted changes since RC2: considerable improvements to WAPBL; further X.Org refinements, including switching sgimips to X.Org; scheduler activations support is now disabled by default in sysctl.conf; ddb.onpanic is now set to 1 in the kernel by default, but 0 in sysctl.conf - this avoids trying to dump if a crash occurs during the install phase; puffs is now enabled by default on amd64, i386, macppc, and sparc64; SSP kernels should work again; a handful of assorted stability improvements. As always, see src/doc/CHANGES-5.0 for full details." Here is the brief release announcement. Installation CD images for 40 processor architectures are available for download from these mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd.iso (229MB), amd64cd.iso (242MB). |
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| 2009-02-11 |
Development Release: NetBSD 5.0 RC2 |
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| Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the second release candidate for NetBSD 5.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am proud to announce that the second release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for download. Since RC1, 103 tickets were pulled up. Interested readers can find the details of these tickets in src/doc/CHANGES-5.0. RC2 represents a great deal of progress over RC1, but with that amount of change, increased time for testing is required. To put it bluntly, there will definitely be a third release candidate. We are aware of a number of release-blocking issues, but it is important that we get a jump on testing the many changes made since RC1." Here is the brief release announcement. As always, installation CD images for 40 processor architectures are available for download from these mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd.iso (238MB), amd64cd.iso (252MB). |
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| 2008-10-15 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 4.0.1 |
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| Manuel Bouyer has announced the release of NetBSD 4.0.1, the first update of the stable NetBSD 4.0 branch: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that update 4.0.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 4.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 4.0 release branch. This represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons, no new features have been added. NetBSD 4.0.1 runs on 54 different system architectures featuring 17 machine architectures across 17 distinct CPU families, and is being ported to more. The NetBSD 4.0.1 release contains complete binary releases for 51 different machine types." Read the detailed release announcement for further information. Download the installation CD images from one of the NetBSD mirrors or via BitTorrent. Quick links to the i386 and amd64 ISO images: i386cd-4.0.1.iso (242MB, MD5, torrent), amd64cd-4.0.1.iso (166MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2007-12-19 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 4.0 |
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| Geert Hendrickx announced the availability of the official release of NetBSD 4.0: "Major achievements in NetBSD 4.0 include support for version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor, Bluetooth, many new device drivers and embedded platforms based on ARM, PowerPC and MIPS CPUs. New network services include iSCSI target (server) code and an implementation of the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. Also, system security was further enhanced with restrictions of mprotect(2) to enforce W^X policies, the Kernel Authorization framework, and improvements of the Veriexec file integrity subsystem, which can be used to harden the system against Trojan horses and virus attacks." See the release announcement and the complete list of changes for more information. ISO images for a variety of architectures are available from the NetBSD mirrors; quick links to the i386 and x86_64 CD images: i386cd-4.0.iso (242MB, MD5), amd64cd-4.0.iso (166MB, MD5). Torrent files are available here. |
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| 2007-12-08 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC5 |
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| Manuel Bouyer has announced the availability of the fifth release candidate for NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 5. This release candidate has several bug fixes and other changes since the previous release candidate - RC4. Most important bug fixes are: a bug that could prevent hpcmips from booting has been fixed; aac(4) is now fully supported on amd64; a bug in the st(4) driver that could cause a kernel panic or data corruption on tape error has been fixed; a bug that would cause kernel panic with lfs has been fixed; com*/lpt* at acpi has been removed from GENERIC kernels, so that the on-board com(4) and lpt(4) ports will be at their traditional locations." See the release announcement and changelog for a more detailed list of changes. As usual, ISO images for a variety of architectures are available from these NetBSD mirrors; quick links to the i386 and x86_64 CD images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (166MB). |
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| 2007-11-10 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC4 |
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| Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the fourth release candidate for NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 4. This release candidate has several bug fixes and other changes since the previous release candidate - RC3. Most important bug fixes are: a transition mechanism from Sendmail to Postfix was implemented; a security issue in OpenSSL was fixed; an earlier pullup to ipf has been reverted, because it prevented RDR sessions from expiring; a bug in MTRR handling causing a reboot on amd64 when starting the X server has been fixed; a security issue in FAST_IPSEC has been fixed; bio(4) has been updated to handle RAID volumes larger than 4GB; fix a heap corruption in rpc.lockd...." More details about the changes can be found in the release announcement. Download: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (166MB). |
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| 2007-10-19 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC3 |
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| Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the third release candidate for NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 3. This release candidate has several bug fixes and other changes since the previous release candidate - RC2. The most important ones are: build of the 32-bit sparc64 kernel is fixed, allowing the sparc release to be built; many fixes to nfe(4) and bge(4) drivers; fixed PR 37037 - kernel memory corruption due to ipnat; support for the HP ML110 G2 / Adaptec 2610SA SATA RAID added to aac(4); fix of an off-by-one error in OpenSSL; avoid kernel crashes in signal handling (PR 37004) and Linux emulation (PR 36920); fix ACPI related interrupt storms due to differences between IOAPIC and classic interrupt routing." Here is the complete release announcement. Installation CD images for a large number of architectures are available from the NetBSD mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (165MB). |
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| 2007-10-04 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC2 |
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| Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the second release candidate of NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 2. There have been many fixes since the previous release candidate, RC1. The most important ones are: ICH9 support in wm(4); enhanced Speedstep support for VIA C7/Eden and amd64; many bug fixes for IPF; FAST_IPSEC fixes; wpi(4) bug fix; proplib local DoS fix; fix procfs exposing the real path of an executable inside chroot; msdosfs bug fix; fix of crash dumps on sparc64; ACPI SCI (system control interrupt) bug fix, addresses interrupt storms seen on some machines. Please note that in this release candidate, the sparc platform has been accidentally omitted. This will be corrected in the next RC cycle. We plan to release another release candidate next week." Read the release announcement for further details. Installation CD images for a variety of processor platforms are available for download from these mirrors; quick links to the i386 and amd64 images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (165MB). |
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| 2007-09-04 |
Development Release: NetBSD 4.0 RC1 |
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| Liam Foy has announced the availability of the first release candidate of NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the first release candidate for NetBSD 4.0 has been released. The NetBSD 4.0 release provides numerous significant functional enhancements, including support for many new devices, integration of hundreds of bug fixes, new and updated kernel subsystems, and many user-land enhancements. The result of these improvements is a stable operating system fit for production use that rivals most commercially available systems." For more information and further links please read the release announcement and visit the list of changes and features. Installation CD images for 36 processor architectures are available for download from this directory; quick links to the i386 and amd64 CD images: i386cd.iso (242MB), amd64cd.iso (165MB).
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| 2006-11-09 |
BSD Release: NetBSD Live! 2007 |
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| The NetBSD project has released a complete live CD with automatic hardware detection and an option to boot into a graphical desktop with KDE. Called NetBSD Live! 2007, the CD image is available for the i386 processor architectures: "This CD-ROM contains a specially constructed version of NetBSD 4.0_BETA sporting a modified kernel based on NetBSD-CURRENT. Booting is done using an adapted version of the GRUB boot loader. The CD contains the following software packages in addition to the base operating system files: XFree86, KDE 3.5.4 with multiple language sets; joe and kvim text editors; AbiWord word processor, Dia 0.9.4 flow-charting and diagramming application, Inkscape 0.44 vector graphic application; The GNU Image Processor (GIMP) 2.2; Firefox web browser...." Read the complete release notes for further information. Download: netbsd-live-2007.iso (701MB); also available via BitTorrent. |
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| 2006-11-04 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 3.1 |
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| NetBSD 3.1 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 3.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available in both source and binary form. NetBSD is a general-purpose Open Source operating system that provides interfaces for running a wide range of applications on a big number of different hardware platforms, all from one source tree. NetBSD 3.1 contains many bug fixes, security updates, new drivers and new features like support for Xen3 DomU." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of changes and new features. Download (MD5): i386cd-3.1.iso (208MB), amd64cd-3.1.iso (151MB). The CD images for a large number of processor architectures are also available for download via BitTorrent. On a related note, NetBSD 3.0.2, an updated version of the NetBSD 3.0 branch, is also out. |
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| 2006-10-12 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC4 |
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| Geert Hendrickx has announced that the fourth release candidate of NetBSD 3.1 is ready for testing: "We had become aware of a few OpenSSL vulnerabilities which we didn't want to leave unfixed in the NetBSD 3.1 release, hence we've extended the release cycle with a fourth release candidate. Binaries and ISOs for NetBSD 3.1_RC4 are available on the releng FTP mirrors. Apart from the OpenSSL fixes, we took advantage of this extra release candidate to add some more improvements: MS DOS file system: write performance of large files has been improved; toolchain: NetBSD 3.1_RC4 can be cross-built from NetBSD 4.0_BETA and -current (GCC 4.x); daily security report for /etc/exports has been improved; dhclient(8) exits gracefully if another instance is already running...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and download links. Download (i386): i386cd-3.1_RC4.iso (208MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-09-18 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC3 |
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| The third release candidate of NetBSD 3.1 is ready for testing: "It is my pleasure to announce that the third release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. Improvements since the second release candidate include: fixed recent security issues with BIND, OpenSSL and X11 font handling; added 'xm shutdown' support for Xen3 domUs; honor the user's umask when creating UNIX domain sockets; fixed some Xen timing and clock issues; fixed serial console on the second serial port of sparc64 machines; fixed DHCP in sysinst on 64-bit archs. We anticipate this to be the final release candidate for the NetBSD 3.1 release, so, if no serious problems arise, we expect NetBSD 3.1 to be released on October 2." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download the i386 ISO image from here: i386cd-3.1_RC3.iso (208MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-09-05 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC2 |
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| Geert Hendrickx has announced the availability of a second release candidate of NetBSD 3.1: "on behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the second release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. Improvements over the first release candidate include: fixed the build of NetBSD-vax; fixed a buffer overflow in PPPoE/ISDN PPP; closed a socket leach in accept(2); removed references to sushi(8) from the afterboot(8) manpage; fixed an integer overflow in FreeType; disabled threading in named(8) to avoid a crash on sparc and sparc64; fixed a potential DoS vulnerability in sendmail(8)...." More details about the changes can be found in the release announcement. CD images for a number of processor architectures are available from the project's main FTP server and its mirrors; here is a quick link to the i386 image: i386cd-3.1_RC2.iso (208MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-08-22 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC1 |
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| Geert Hendrickx has announced the first release candidate of NetBSD 3.1: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the first release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. NetBSD 3.1 is a feature update for NetBSD 3.0, and features domU support for Xen3, massive LFS stability improvements, and lots of other, smaller improvements, additions, and bug fixes. If you want to build NetBSD 3.1_RC1 from source, cvs up your source tree to 'netbsd-3-1-RC1', or just along the 'netbsd-3' branch. NetBSD 3.1_RC2 is expected to be released in two weeks, and will have fixed the build for NetBSD-vax." More details can be found in the release announcement. Download the i386 ISO image from here: i386cd-3.1_RC1.iso (208MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent. |
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| 2006-07-25 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 3.0.1 |
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| After being available for free download for one week, NetBSD 3.0.1 is now officially announced: "NetBSD 3.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 3.0 release branch. This represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons, no new features have been added. NetBSD 3.0.1 runs on 57 different system architectures featuring 17 machine architectures across 17 distinct CPU families, and is being ported to more. The NetBSD 3.0.1 release contains complete binary releases for 53 different machine types, with the platforms amigappc, bebox, pc532 and playstation2 released in source form only. Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 3.0.1 are available for download at many sites around the world." More details can be found in the release announcement. CD images for all the supported architectures are available from a number of mirrors worldwide, as well as via BitTorrent; here is a quick link to the i386 CD image: i386cd-3.0.1.iso (200MB, MD5). |
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| 2005-12-23 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 3.0 |
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| NetBSD 3.0 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 3.0 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports 57 different system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. NetBSD 3.0 continues our long tradition with major improvements in stability, performance, networking, security, also includes support for two new platforms (iyonix and hp700), and many new peripherals." More details can be found in the release announcement. CD images for all the supported architectures are available from a number of mirrors worldwide, as well as via BitTorrent; here is a quick link to the i386 CD image: i386cd-3.0.iso (200MB, BSDSUM). |
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| 2005-12-13 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.0 RC6 |
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| The sixth (and possibly the final) release candidate of NetBSD 3.0 is available: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I'm happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 3.0 RC6 for testing. NetBSD 3.0 RC6 (including ISO images) is available in the 'daily builds' section of your local FTP mirror and we encourage you to test it out and report any bugs. We expect that this will be the final release candidate for NetBSD 3.0, barring any major issues or security problems. Here is a brief summary of changes from NetBSD 3.0_RC5 to 3.0_RC6: fix problems with USB keyboards on newer amd64 and i386 systems; added support for Intel ICH7 and 6300ESB to auich(4)...." Find more details in the release announcement. The binary files and installation ISO images are available from NetBSD mirrors; here is a quick link to the i386 installation ISO: i386cd-3.0_RC6.iso (200MB, BSDSUM). |
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| 2005-12-04 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.0 RC5 |
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| The fifth release candidate of NetBSD 3.0 is out, inclusive of installation ISO images: "NetBSD 3.0 RC5 available. In a message to the netbsd-announce list, Matthias Scheler announced the availability of NetBSD 3.0 RC5 on the FTP server of the NetBSD project. This latest release candidate solves some security issues and fixes a few driver problems. For downloads of NetBSD 3.0 RC5, please consider one of the mirrors of the release engineering FTP server. In addition to the usual set of archive files there were also ISO images created for NetBSD 3.0 RC5." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement. Here is a quick link to the ISO image for i386 processors: i386cd.iso (200MB, MD5). |
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| 2005-11-19 |
Development Release: NetBSD 3.0 RC1 |
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| The first release candidate of NetBSD 3.0 is out: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I'm happy to announce that the release process for NetBSD 3.0 has officially begun. The first release candidate is available for download here. We expect to have RC2 available on the FTP server in about a week, and we hope this will be the final release candidate. So if all goes well the release of 3.0 is approximately three weeks away. We appreciate your patience and support which we hope will make this the best NetBSD release to date!" See the release announcement and installation instructions (i386) for further details. A list of NetBSD mirrors can be found here. |
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| 2005-11-02 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 2.1 |
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| NetBSD 2.1 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 2.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 2.1 is the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch. This release provides numerous functional enhancements, including support for many new devices, hundreds of bug fixes, patches and updates to kernel subsystems, and many enhancements to the user environment. In addition, all of the security fixes and critical bug fixes from the NetBSD 2.0.3 update are included as well." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of changes. NetBSD 2.1 is available for 54 processor architectures; here is a quick link to the ISO image for i386: i386cd.iso (178MB, MD5, BSDSUM). |
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| 2005-09-26 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.1 RC5 |
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| A new release candidate of NetBSD 2.1 is now available for testing: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I'm happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 2.1 RC5 for testing. (A security issue came up shortly after RC4 was tagged, so it was never announced). NetBSD 2.1 RC5 is available in the 'daily builds' section of your local FTP mirror, and we encourage you to test it out and report any bugs using send-pr(1). We anticipate that this will be the final release candidate for NetBSD 2.1, barring any major issues or security problems." Read the rest of the release announcement and installation instructions (i386) for more information. The list of FTP mirrors carrying the RC5 binary packages can be found on this page. |
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| 2005-09-11 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.1 RC3 |
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| The third release candidate of NetBSD 2.1 has been announced and is ready for testing: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I'm happy to announce that the release process for NetBSD 2.1 has begun. Those of you paying close attention will notice that NetBSD 2.1 RC3 is available in the 'daily builds' section of your local FTP mirror, and we encourage you to test it out and report any major bugs using send-pr(1). We expect to have RC4 available on FTP mirrors in about a week, and we expect this to be the final release candidate." See the release announcement and the installation notes (i386) for further details. A comprehensive list of FTP mirror sites carrying the release can be found on this page. |
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| 2005-04-15 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 2.0.2 |
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| The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that update 2.0.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available: "NetBSD 2.0.2 is the second security/critical update of the NetBSD 2.0 release branch. This represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for stability or security reasons. This is also the first binary security/critical update since NetBSD 2.0. NetBSD 2.0.1 was tagged within the CVS repository, and is available from there as a source update, but its full binary release was preempted by patches incorporated into 2.0.2 and build hardware issues." Read the full announcement and check the complete list of changes. Download (i386): i386cd.iso (171MB), also available via BitTorrent. Our regular readers may have already known about the availability of NetBSD 2.0.2 mentioned in the Reader Comment Area of DistroWatch Weekly. |
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| 2005-02-25 |
NetBSD 2.0 Rendezvous |
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| ONLamp has published an interview with the developers of NetBSD: "We are planning to have more frequent releases. We have made a lot of mistakes in the past that have delayed the release schedules, but hopefully we have learned from them. We were very aggressive about committing large sub-system upgrades just before a release, and that added a lot of bugs to the code that needed to be fixed for the release. This not only delays the releases, but also adds extra work, since each bug needs to be tested on head and pulled up via patches by the release engineering group." The 2-page interview starts here.
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| 2005-01-05 |
Understanding NetBSD 2.0's New Technology |
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| NewsForge has published an interview with several prominent NetBSD developers: "NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports 52 system architectures, all from a single source tree, and is always being ported to more. NetBSD 2.0 continues the long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, significant security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals. To celebrate the release, we've asked several well-known NetBSD developers to comment on some of NetBSD 2.0's new features." The questions and answers are highly technical, but they give an interesting overview of recent changes in this multi-platform operating system. Read the interview here.
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| 2004-12-09 |
BSD Release: NetBSD 2.0 |
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| The long awaited NetBSD 2.0 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 2.0 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 2.0, the tenth major release of the NetBSD Operating System, has been released, with binary distributions for 48 architectures. More information is available in the 2.0 release announcement. NetBSD 2.0 continues our long tradition with major improvements in file system and memory management performance, major security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals. The addition of a native threads implementation for all platforms and symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) on i386 and other popular platforms were long-standing goals for NetBSD 2.0. Both of these goals have now been met -- SMP support has been added for i386, SPARC, and PowerPC, and the SMP support on Alpha and VAX has been improved." Download (i386): i386cd.iso (171MB), also available via BitTorrent. A large number of screenshots can be viewed here.
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| 2004-10-10 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.0 RC4 |
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| The fourth release candidate of NetBSD 2.0 is now available: "A new release candidate RC4 of NetBSD 2.0 has been tagged. The changes since RC3 include fixes for IP Filter (concerning IPv6 and better backwards compatibility with existing configurations), checksum processing for bridge interfaces, support for the Adaptec AAR 2810SA raid controller, linux compatibility and changes to the pagedaemon in order to improve performance under heavy disk load. To allow for testing of this new release candidate, the final release of NetBSD 2.0 is expected to be pushed back about 1-2 weeks. Binary snapshots will soon be available on the mirrors of the NetBSD release engineering FTP server." This is the announcement. Unofficial ISO images for i386, mac68k, macppc and sparc can be downloaded from here.
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| 2004-10-04 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.0 RC2 |
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| The development branch of NetBSD 2.0 has been tagged as "RC2": "NetBSD 2.0 RC2 tagged. After tagging NetBSD-2.0_RC1, there have been a few pullups that fix some issues with Linux emulation under NetBSD/i386 as well as some installation problems under some of the arm-based ports. This means that the final release of NetBSD 2.0 will need to be pushed back approximately 1-2 weeks to allow for testing of this Release Candidate. As usual, binary snapshots will soon be available on the release engineering FTP server." Read here for more information.
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| 2004-09-28 |
Development Release: NetBSD 2.0 RC1 |
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| Moving closer towards the release of version 2.0, the NetBSD project has announced the first release candidate of NetBSD 2.0: "The NetBSD Releng Team has announced that the first Release Candidate for NetBSD 2.0 (ie NetBSD-2.0_RC1) has been tagged. This is a major milestone in the much anticipated release of NetBSD 2.0: from now on, any pullups must address some form of show-stopping issue to even be considered. The NetBSD Project encourages all users to test the binary snapshots that will soon be available on the release engineering ftp server. If no pullups are necessary, then the 2.0 release should occur around the middle of October." The full release announcement. There are no ISO images for download (except for these unofficial ones), but the product can be installed directly from the NetBSD Release Engineering Server or mirrors by following these instructions.
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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