Jan Schaumann published the NetBSD Foundation’s third quarterly status report, covering the months July through September of 2004.Among many other things, this status report covers NetBSD version numbering scheme changes and of course upcoming release of NetBSD 2.0. It is available here.
After tagging NetBSD-2.0_RC1 and NetBSD-2.0_RC2, 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.
Right now available are some unofficial RC3 Iso-Images here (sparc, sparc64, macppc, mac68k, vax and of course i386) made by some enthusiasts.
It’s my observation the RC’s are stable enough and very usable. I had problems with the snapshots, mainly compiling from pkgsrc. Now, with RC1, I had no hiccups whatsoever in compiling, especially Gnome 2.8.
I like netbsd for its `hypefree`ness. But I have to admit, I love reading about it in the news from time to time.
How is gnome 2.8 working for you on nbsd? When 2.0 is released I’m doing a fresh install and plan on using it g2.8. I’ve been playing with it on Ubuntu briefly. I like it so far.
Also, are you using xorg or xfree?
-adam.
NetBSD 2.0 has XFree86 in the base system, but you can install Xorg through pkgsrc.
Yeah I know. Just wondering what people’s experience with xorg on NetBSD is.
Thanks for the note though.
-adam.
Unofficial Builds are here:
http://netbsd.student.utwente.nl/NetBSD-2.0_RC3-iso/
I wrote that URL in another News (RC3 is tagged), but i guess the Statusreport was enough NetBSD-News for one day.
Note that Gnome or KDE or even Apache are not part of NetBSD, they are thirdparty applications installed via PKGSRC or binary Package. You have to separate that. If you want pure NetBSD use twm as your Windowmanager, xmh for Email under X11 and xedit since all this is part of NetBSDs install sets
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Of course there are eventually binary Packages available. But don’t expect the Releng-Team to build ~5000 Packages for ~50 Platforms for a RC
. OMG! Thats 250 000 Packages 
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Thats just for the guy who asked something in that direction in one of the earlier NetBSD-News.
How is gnome 2.8 working for you on nbsd?
It’s snappy and sweet; I have compiled it with gcc optimizations; -O9 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp. I am using xfree.
It’s snappy and sweet; I have compiled it with gcc optimizations; -O9 -mcpu=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp. I am using xfree.
There’s no such of -O9 in GCC option. There only has -O to -O3 and -Os.
thats funny.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2002/03/09/0003.html
Xorg on NetBSD works. It took a bit of tinkering with a few files in pkgsrc to get it running but once it runs it works well. It might be easier to actually install in manually from the source.
>There’s no such of -O9 in GCC option. There only has -O to -O3 and -Os.
Small correction, gcc treats everything above -O3 as -O3.
On the other hand, -O3 should generally be used to shake out compiler bugs, or if you have done some rather heavy testing compiling your programs with -O3 and not found any oddities.
NetBSD has a nice utility called “Adjustkernel” that makes it easy to optimize the kernel size. 🙂
Adjustkernel is a nice nifty little tool. However, it only removes unnecessary hardware drivers (not always 100% foolproof). If you really really want to dig down and get a lean mean kernel, you would still need to manually remove the unused pseudo devices.