NetBSD‘s Alistair Crooks has
announced the availability of the new stable branch pkgsrc-2005Q1 of the
NetBSD Packages
Collection (aka pkgsrc). This branch
includes all the updates to the thousands of existing and additions of hundreds of new applications since the hereby obsoleted pkgsrc-2004Q4 branch.
Some noteworthy infrastructure changes applicable to all 13 operating systems
for which pkgsrc is available include the support for multiple digests to
check the integrity of the distribution files as found on the Internet
(triggered by the recently-found problems with the SHA-1 algorithm) and the so-called alternates
framework.
I hope they fixed a few of the bugs I encountered 2 weeks ago right after the freeze..
pkgsrc is pretty good though, and so is NetBSD. It’s currently in the process of replacing my Linux server
Not many people seem to care about NetBSD though lol
Not many people seem to care about NetBSD though lol
It seems that some companies do:
http://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=4927
Let’s just hope that more catch on to this. I mean, why not? It’s free, it’s portable, it’s fast, it’s clean and more. What other reasons do companies need to use this as an embedded OS or server?