NetBSD 2.0 Released 574
Quique writes "NetBSD 2.0 is the tenth major release of the NetBSD Operating System, and has just been released. It can be downloaded from one of the mirror sites.
NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports fifty four different 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, major security enhancements, and support for many new platforms and peripherals." The release announcement is also available.
Great for mini-processors (Score:4, Insightful)
Now with NetBSD, the same kind of boards could have a mini BSD OS, that could use all the free tools to have a more robust design. I'm not incredibly familiar with NetBSD, but I imagine they do have "real-time" control software for these small processors. Great job. And now of course the choice of processors is very large.
Re:Quique: NetBSD 2.0 Released (Score:2, Insightful)
It's sort of ironic that a story about a dead operating system was submitted by someone with whose user name comes from a dead language...
Is it? Maybe I'm not laughing because I just don't understand the constant need to disrespect everyone else's favorite Linux/BSD distro.
For many architectures there is no other modern operating system available, let alone a powerful open source Unix-like system. I think that NetBSD, although it has a relatively small user base, plays an important part in the open source community in this respect. Can't we all appreciate the fact that such a ported and portable open source operating system like NetBSD exists?
I wonder what sort of insecurities you have about your own operating system fuel your need to trash a such a benign project.
Re:Quique: NetBSD 2.0 Released (Score:4, Insightful)
No.
Irony is an incongruity between what's to be expected and what actually happens. If NetBSD truly were a dead operating system, what's so incongruent about a fan of a dead language posting an article about a dead operating system? I vaguely recall something about "birds of a feather" banding together and forming small social orders based on similarities or something like that, so there's nothing surprising about a fan of an alleged dead language posting an article about an alleged OS.
Or were we playing buzzword-bingo and I missed the part where they handed out the game charts?
Re:54 hippy architectures ... because no GPL? (Score:2, Insightful)
Do you know what "public domain" even is? Any software under the GPL is specifically *NOT* in the public domain.
Re:No G5 support (Score:3, Insightful)
Thank you Anonymous Coward, your jackassery has shown me the light! Surely Linus can afford to buy every kind of computer in the world! I'm off to the Linux section to call Richard and Linus teabaggers and teabaggees for doing free software developement! There I shall call every Linux fundraiser and developer names and proclaim the death of free software!
Huzzah!