Submitted by “The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0, the fourteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. Changes from the previous release include scalability improvements on multi-core systems, many new and updated device drivers, Xen and MIPS port improvements, and brand new features such as a new packet filter. Some NetBSD 6.0 highlights are: support for thread-local storage (TLS), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) functionality, rewritten disk quota subsystem, new subsystems to handle flash devices and NAND controllers, an experimental CHFS file system designed for flash devices, support for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) protocol, and more. This release also introduces NetBSD Packet Filter (NPF) – a new packet filter, designed with multi-core systems in mind, which can do TCP/IP traffic filtering, stateful inspection, and network address translation (NAT).”
Congratulations to the NetBSD developers! Well done!
Amigans, ejnoy the improvments in your port :-P.
Your comment is ill educated and most of all abusive of another effort which is not yours.
You should be ashamed.
I have nothing more to say.
I’m the NetBSD developer who put some serious amount of work into the amiga port recently.
In other words: you’re misunderstanding my comment. Stop seeing trolls everywhere.
Edited 2012-10-17 23:40 UTC
I don’t think most people here see trolls everywhere. You may not have intended it, but your comment came off as sarcasm rather than a genuine wish for the Amigans to enjoy your port. It’s hard to judge tone from text, so when in doubt, put a bit of context in.
Yeah, it could not possibly be that it was your fault it must be the victim’s…
I seriously doubt that Judgen’s comment was Darknexus’s fault. ;^)
In any case, thanks for the work on the Amiga platform, Strim!
The owners of a working Amiga don’t need NetBSD to enjoy it. I bet they are already enjoying it. NetBSD is just, as American says, ‘the icing of the cake’.
I’m pleased to see NetBSD still chugging along. It’s an awesome little os. Anyone know how npf compares with OpenBSD’s pf in terms of real world performance? I’ll need to set up a gateway machine soon and was going to use OpenBSD in order to use pf. If npf performs just as well or even better however, I’ll use NetBSD instead as it’s quite a bit easier to find compatible, high-quality Wi-Fi chips that work under NetBSD than OpenBSD not to mention a much broader selection of software in pkgsrc.
Just out of curiosity, which Wi-Fi chips do you believe work better under NetBSD vs. OpenBSD? And what exactly is better about them?
I’m not disputing you…I’m just interested to know.
That has not been my experience. I’ve always found them pretty much the same in terms of drivers due to the bsd cross-pollination.
[/q]a much broader selection of software in pkgsrc. [/q]
How much software do you need on a gateway? I hardly ever install anything other than maybe handful of software from ports on gateways.
As for PF… I use FreeBSD and OpenBSD with PF for the firewall. I’ve been wanting to use NetBSD again which you can use PF, but it doesnt support my (ral0) wireless card. I do like pkgsrc… 😛
OpenBSD/pf support for multiple cores is supposedly not so good. NetBSD version is supposed to scale better with multiple cores.
I haven’t test it.
Unless I was a dev, or a highly interested user willing to do testing, I’d give any new packet filter some time to mature and get some trial by fire. Not taking anything away from the NetBSD devs, and a multicore packet filter is a cool idea, but if it’s for something critical (i.e., your continued employment depends on it) I wouldn’t want to be the first to find any bugs.
Edited 2012-10-19 02:15 UTC
What coreyography says. Plus, unless one is really “into” ~firewalls and such, it’s probably better to just use m0n0wall or pfsense in most cases – both of which give you pf on FreeBSD, with its hw support (and performance …not that your gateway would be likely limited by it?)
Congratulations NetBSD guys! Keep moving forward!
I installed NetBSD 6.0 RC2 as a virtual machine and I was very glad to be able to run netbeans 7.2 smoothly (it is not in pkgsrc but the “all platforms” version found in netbeans website works like a charm).
pkgin (a binary package manager based on packages created using pkgsrc) is a very nice addition too.
Congratulations NetBSDians!
It is really good release at least for amd64, i386 ports (from changelog and some other ports). I would mention acpicpu driver, greatly improved linux compatibility, better hardware support (though you shouldn’t expect the same level as linux or even freebsd). For whose who uses NetBSD I would say you must give it a try. For newcomers it depends on hardware support and your requirements but it could be good, easy manageable OS for various server configurations (on desktop you need older graphics (r4xxx, geforce before tesla) card and some geekiness
).