James Chacon of the NetBSD release
engineering team has published the prospective timelines for the upcoming NetBSD releases.According to his
posting, the next major release, NetBSD 3.0, is planned for the end of
July. The next minor release, NetBSD 2.1 (an update to the
NetBSD 2 branch),
should be made public near the end of June, and a last minor update to the NetBSD 1.6 line, NetBSD
1.6.3, is planned for August/September of 2005.
These dates are obviously still subject to change, and further announcement
with more details will be made. In the mean time, the NetBSD team is pleased
to announce the availability of regular daily builds of all major branches,
which had been interrupted late last year due to hardware faults. Daily
snapshots are now again available from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily,
with logs and ticket tracking information available from http://releng.netbsd.org/.
At least it’s good to have some dates to relate to.
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What are the “big” changes that suggested to move from 2.x to 3.x ?
It is good to see this project getting some dynamism. I’ve been using it as my unix-based OS for a time and I am very satisfied with it. The only thing I would like they would make some isos with packages and make them available from their mirrors, not all of us have a coneccion good enough to use pkg_add. Other than that, really nice OS.
What’s that?? 2.0 is barely out and they already talk of 3.0?
What happened to the slow, but good NetBSD development? What about more fine-grained kernel SMP or other rewrites that would actually justify a 3.0 tag?
What’s that?? 2.0 is barely out and they already talk of 3.0?
What happened to the slow, but good NetBSD development? What about more fine-grained kernel SMP or other rewrites that would actually justify a 3.0 tag?
See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2004/09/30/0020.html
It is good to see this project getting some dynamism. I’ve been using it as my unix-based OS for a time and I am very satisfied with it.
Yes, on a related point, there does seem to be the beginings of a real “buzz” around bsd, in particlar FreeBSD (currently “no.12” at Distrowatch)from desktop Linux users – who’d of thought it
Actually if you are using xfce4 or gnome on your desktop PC .. it does not matter what is the kernel or the OS ..
I have been a Debian zealot but a few months ago I installed NetBSD2.0 and I understood that the difference is insignificant