Alistair Crooks announced today that the NetBSD Packages Team will start a freeze on the pkgsrc tree in order to prepare for the release of the fourth stable branch, pkgsrc-2004Q4. The freeze will begin on December 6th
2004, and will last for a maximum of 2 weeks, during which the developers will bring down the PR count and fix problems shown by the bulk builds. Update: LiveCD/ISO instructions.
NetBSD pkgsrc will freeze for preparation of stable branch
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Does anyone know anything about the schedule for the release of NetBSD 2.0? In the meantime they have released a fifth RC, which was not even announced on netbsd.org…
According to Hubert Feyrer’s blog entry http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html NetBSD 2.0 should be well on its way. Perhaps the final release will be out sometime during this week?
Really soon now. The release engineering team is currently working on the final release builds, ISO’s, etc. And the final release announcement is being drafted. I’d say in a few days.
Allright, thanks!!
Looking forward! 😉
Another question: will binary packages be built for sparc32? In the past there where packages for sparc64 but not for sparc32…
http://netbsd.org/Changes/#netbsd2.0-rc5
RC5 was tagged. Its on the home page.
I heard SMP is a focus in 2.0. I have also heard that it is basically the FreeBSD 4.0 SMP with Giant Lock everywhere. How does the SMP capabilities compare to Linux 2.6, FreeBSD 5, and DragonFly?
i think in a lot of these threads people eventualluy ask about the relative performance of these ssystems. just as netcraft monitor websites, and distrowatch monitors distros … it might be an idea to have a http://www.osperformancewatch.org which continuously maintains a set of -release and -current ditros/OSes and performs nightly benchmarks, and presents the resulting plots.
so when a major change is committed to netbsd-current the benefits or otherwise are shown the next day at the latest (or triggered?).
common benchmarks might include mmap, socket alloc/dealloc, net throughput, opengl fps, flops, etc
Can’t wait for this release! i have a dual 1GHZ P-III waiting for it to test the SMP capabilities. Hopefully it runs nice on HT processors also.
What is the least time consuming way to (semi-automatically?) check for all package updates and upgrade all NetBSD packages to newer (relatively bugfree) versions? After getting used to Debian’s ease of use in this repsect I don’t like to spend too much time upgrading packages or ports one by one, not to mention taking care of all the potential problems too. So I hope there was a relatively simple make world (etc.) style thing with ports, and/or the binary equivalent, like apt-get upgrade on Debian?
It is easy to upgrade ports via “pkg_chk” on NetBSD.
Their is an unnoficial 2.0/i386 ISO already:
http://netbsd.student.utwente.nl/netbsd-2.0-i386-20041129.iso
Packages for NetBSD 2.0/i386 (from pkgsrc-2004Q3) can be found on
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/2.0/i386/
Unofficial ISOs are OK for testing RCs, especially since there are no official ones available, but I wouldn’t trust any unofficial “releases” or unsupported download sites for installing the final release of NetBSD 2.0.