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NetBSD 1.6.1 Release Process Has Begun 30

Posted by timothy from the because-it-runs-everywhere dept.
jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that NetBSD 1.6.1 has been branched and the release engineering process has begun. NetBSD 1.6.1 is a maintenance (or patch) release for users of NetBSD 1.6, not to be confused with NetBSD-current (which will become the next major release). As a patch release, it is not branched off the head of the CVS source tree, but instead includes all security fixes and patches applied to the 1.6 branch. A complete list of changes since 1.6 is available in src/doc/CHANGES-1.6.1 of the branch, which can be checked out by passing the -rnetbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC1 flag to the cvs command: cvs -rnetbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC1 co src. Details on the release cycle and status information is available from www.netbsd.org/releng/releng-1.6.html."
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NetBSD 1.6.1 Release Process Has Begun

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  • Comments? (Score:3, Informative)

    by Dr. Photo ( 640363 ) on Thursday January 30, 2003 @04:48PM (#5191558) Journal
    Most... underrated.... OS.... ever.

    Hearken unto me, O children of Slashdot:

    End your torture at the hands of lesser OSes; try NetBSD today! (or whenever 1.6.1 is properly released ;)

  • Dead? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by mistermark ( 646060 )
    Well, I'm surprised by the figures I read here. I use netBSD since september last year and it's been a good experience ever since. It gave me what I was looking for on Linux, a small footprint after the installation and I guess that's not what linux is about anymore, hence the 5-7 CD-set on most of the distributions. Burning just another set of iso's just to give another linux-flavour a try isn't my idea of efficiency. But hey, we all have fat pipes and fat systems, haven't we? So who cares about a small footprint and a 5 iso download? Well, I do... In the meantime I'll be happy with my netBSD bootfloppy and a ftp-install to match.

  • clarification (Score:3, Informative)

    by jschauma ( 90259 ) on Friday January 31, 2003 @10:04AM (#5196066) Homepage
    In the above, it should read 'NetBSD 1.6.1 has been tagged', not branched. Sorry for the confusion.

  • First NetBSD Rulz Post! (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Guess all the NetBSD users out there are too busy at work
    to bother making any postings here. Oh well, for them, I'll
    write this:

    NetBSD Rulz!!!!!

  • NetBSD is a brill OS (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Nice, small, clean system, which is consistent across loads of architectures. Love it.

    Anyway, if anyone is reading this page, will there be any improvements to Sushi? That's the little setup tool for NetBSD -- nice boxes/windows/text-based affair, but it was full of bugs and glitches in the first 1.6 release.

  • Definitely Underrated (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    People tend to think of NetBSD as only good for obscure architectures and not for any serious systems. In my experience this is far from true.

    My experience with NetBSD has actually only been with i386 platforms, and I've been very impressed. It is actually my preferred UNIX (over Open/FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris). I find the default install to be nice and minimal, and the packaging system layout to be very clean and effective.

    I like the way NetBSD uses /usr/pkg for package placement, making it very clear what is built from pkgsrc or installed as a package. This leaves /usr/local available for you for packages build and installed outside of the package system.

    Upgrades of NetBSD are also very smooth, both binary and source, with security patches released nearly instantly.

    A lot of the innovation in the BSD's is actually originated by NetBSD (which has a team of excellent developers), then incorporated in by the other BSD's, taking much of the credit from their less popular counterpart.

    Anyways, after that rant, give it a try, you won't be disappointed!

  • In my computing experience, I have used NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. I can't stand FreeBSD's installation process. I always end up going in a loop with assigning disks or labels. The ports collection works most of the time, but is damn annoying when it doesn't. OpenBSD's installation is fine, but post-install it's a pain getting everything up to the point of functionality. NetBSD strikes a good balance between the two, with the purely text-based installer but also a functional post-install.

    I am also happy knowing that all my non-SMP servers can be running the same OS, no matter if they are Intel, MIPS, SPARC, Alpha, VAX, or otherwise. Hardware age doesn't matter, either. I use an old 486DX with 32MB of RAM as a DNS/DHCP/SMTP/IMAP/LDAP server for a network, and it handles the load beautifully.

    I remember I once had an errant Perl script that kept on spawning itself, sucked all the available memory, and pegged the CPU load average to around 70. It was slow, but I managed to log in, kill all the Perl scripts, and everything returned to normal instantly. No crash, no fallout. I'd like to see Windoze 2000 (or even Linux) do that!

    As another anecdote from my work at my school, I have a professor who, while on our FreeBSD 4.6.2 server, forgot to grep for nfsd in an awk script when he was trying to kill and restart NFS. This killed all the processes on the server, and left it without init, basically in an unusable state. I can recall doing that in NetBSD, and it appears that there is a kernel function that checks that init is still running and will respawn it if it dies, and then place the machine in single-user mode. I would still have had to run over to the science building and get things going again, but our uptime would have been preserved, and I would have been able to do administrative work immediately.

    It's a pity that NetBSD doesn't have more users than it does. It has got to be one of the most capable open-source OSs, and I certainly prefer it over some commercial UNIXs such as AIX.

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