OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19063/NetBSD_4_0_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:02:26 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Congratulations NetBSD! http://osnews.com/thread?292177 http://osnews.com/thread?292177 Looks like it is time to upgrade my IBM Z50. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jace78) Comments NetBSD 4.0 Released http://osnews.com/thread?292180 http://osnews.com/thread?292180 I'm glad to see it advance onward... whatever you guys behind this great os do.... don't stop!

Keep up the good work NetBSD developers. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bradley) Comments ok http://osnews.com/thread?292181 http://osnews.com/thread?292181 I am waiting for Stallman comments ;) Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Duffman) Comments Cool! http://osnews.com/thread?292183 http://osnews.com/thread?292183 Cool! I really like NetBSD. I've used Linux for a few years now, and decided to try something different a few months ago. NetBSD is very fast, clean, and minimal. A great stable kernel.

Congrats to the NetBSD project. I certainly hope they meet their goals for their fundraising campaign, as well. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (patrick_) Comments Its not even on their site... http://osnews.com/thread?292184 http://osnews.com/thread?292184 I just check NetBSD.org and they have not announced it there yet ;) Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dindin) Comments RE: Its not even on their site... http://osnews.com/thread?292188 http://osnews.com/thread?292188 It's on the main page now, but this is often done intentionally for many OS distributions: finish a release, allow for some time so that mirror sites can grab the ISO's, and only *then* announce it widely (followed by a spike in download activity).

Shit... the Sinclair ZX81 I repaired last week, isn't on the list of supported platforms ;-) Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Alwin) Comments RE[2]: Its not even on their site... http://osnews.com/thread?292190 http://osnews.com/thread?292190 Maybe your inclair is not supported but my Celeron D does for sure. Great work guys. It is time to use it. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments RE: Its not even on their site... http://osnews.com/thread?292195 http://osnews.com/thread?292195 It in place, and popular, cause my torrent work on 400kbps rate ;) Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Punktyras) Comments Happy new release! http://osnews.com/thread?292207 http://osnews.com/thread?292207 I've been following the netbsd-4 branch and it was very stable (for me) since 4.0RC2.

Congratulations to all the developers and users for this release.

It seems that NetBSD is becoming ``relevant'' again ;) Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Beket) Comments NetBSD 4.0 released http://osnews.com/thread?292226 http://osnews.com/thread?292226 What a nice birthday present to me!

Thank you NetBSD developers, your OS rocks! Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE: ok http://osnews.com/thread?292232 http://osnews.com/thread?292232 He will declare that NetBSD is evil because you can surf on sites with non-free software in it with the browser that comes with NetBSD!

RMS is great programmer but other than that he's non-practical fanatic. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kishe) Comments RE[2]: Its not even on their site... http://osnews.com/thread?292234 http://osnews.com/thread?292234
Shit... the Sinclair ZX81 I repaired last week, isn't on the list of supported platforms ;-)


It's not exactly NetBSD, but there are some *NIX type systems for the Z80, like UZI: http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html

You'll need to add a few RAM packs to a ZX81 first though. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vanders) Comments Update on Z50 http://osnews.com/thread?292255 http://osnews.com/thread?292255 Just finished installing NetBSD 4 on my Z50 and it is looking good. Actually, it works far better than NBSD 3, which had some problems. Xhpc in NBSD 3 was messed up. Thanks again NetBSD!Edited 2007-12-19 22:39 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jace78) Comments torrent files http://osnews.com/thread?292287 http://osnews.com/thread?292287 It's a shame their torrent files are transferred via ftp, as their ftp server only allows for 80 simultaneus users. Those ought to be http links (or hosted on another ftp server with less restrictive settings). Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reflect) Comments RE[3]: Its not even on their site... http://osnews.com/thread?292327 http://osnews.com/thread?292327 "It's not exactly NetBSD, but there are some *NIX type systems for the Z80, like UZI:"

Wow, this seems to be a chance to have a UNIX emulator running on the GDR's U880 (Z80 clone) based computers I still have down in the cellar.

On the other hand, maybe it's possible to have some of robotron's CP/M and UNIX style OSes run on the original Sinclair ZX81...

Maybe, one day we get a NetBSD version for the EAW P8000 UNIX machine: http://ans-netz.de/P8000/ - but there's still the original UNIX OS called WEGA, a UNIX System III lookalike. Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Doc Pain) Comments RE: torrent files http://osnews.com/thread?292380 http://osnews.com/thread?292380 FYI: the same directory tree is served over http as well. Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ghen) Comments modular-xorg-server http://osnews.com/thread?292446 http://osnews.com/thread?292446 It seems that the 2007-Q3 pkgsrc tarball is the latest stable tarball but there is no modular-xorg-server package in x11. How does one install modular xorg from binary packages in NetBSD 4.0? Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jackson) Comments Where is NetBSD? http://osnews.com/thread?292701 http://osnews.com/thread?292701 After this http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html its feels kinda sad to hear from NetBSD.. Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ddd_) Comments RE: Where is NetBSD? http://osnews.com/thread?292742 http://osnews.com/thread?292742 The mail is over a year old, so what's your point about NetBSD 4.0 and NetBSD in general? The question "Where is NetBSD?" doesn't make much sense and you better ask "where is NetBSD for me?" - NetBSD 4.0 is a good start to find this out ;) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mawei) Comments