NetBSD 2.1 RC5 Released

10 Comments

1. 2005-09-26 8:33 am

   Anonymous

   I can’t find the iso image, is there? It seems they only provide floppy images (hmm, I don’t have a floppy drive! ). I’m waiting for final 2.1 release, it’s going to be great for NetBSD and whole community
• 2005-09-26 8:45 am

  Anonymous

  > I’m waiting for final 2.1 release

  At the end of October 3.0 will be released, so if you are going to do a brand new install I’d wait for it.

  For testing you can test 3_BETA here:

  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3

  I think, I could be wrong, that 2.1 is an evolution of 2.0.

  Those many versions are making me some confusion, though.
• 2005-09-26 8:48 am

  Anonymous

  Those many versions are making me some confusion, though.

  Oh, come on, it’s not that difficult.

  netbsd-2 branch -> netbsd-2-0 branch (at 2.0 release)

  -> (upcoming) netbsd-2-1 branch (at 2.1 release)

  netbsd-3 branch -> (upcoming) netbsd-3-0 branch (at 3.0 release)

  I mean, compared to the version scheme of Linux or even FreeBSD…
• 2005-09-26 10:23 am

  Anonymous

  WTF?

  i agree thats its better than the linux naming scheme

  but common, freebsd has the best and most logical system, IMHO

  it doesnt work that good these days anyway
2. 2005-09-26 8:40 am

   Anonymous

   netbsd known as the most mature and welltested *bsd, is going to fast since 2.0 release, is it panic ?
• 2005-09-27 12:30 pm

  Anonymous

  No, there is no panic in NetBSD at all .

  All they did was to fix some things to improve the progress. For example: you can build a NetBSD-Release for your Sun-Workstation (wich has a sparc CPU) on your common Debian-PC (wich is x86 CPU).

  Try that with any other OS .

  Also NetBSD has very clean code, it’s easy to create new functions compared with many other projects.

  BTW, i run NetBSD 3 on my Servers for 5 Month now. It has a lot more to offer and i am very satisfied. However, it’s marked as beta.
3. 2005-09-26 8:47 am

   Anonymous

   To be more precise about timelines, they are approsimative you know,

   http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/08/22/0000.html
4. 2005-09-26 11:34 am

   ghen

   I can’t find the iso image, is there? It seems they only provide floppy images (hmm, I don’t have a floppy drive! ).

   Assuming you’re talking about i386, you can generate an iso (with our without install sets) with boot-big.fs as bootable part, using “mkisofs -b boot-big.fs …” (that’s how the official iso’s are created too).
5. 2005-09-26 10:38 pm

   Anonymous

   Are the common USB2 controllers working?

   is mass storage working such as the ipod mini
• 2005-09-27 12:24 pm

  Anonymous

  USB2 should work. Dunno about the ipod-family.