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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Any idea on release date for NetBSD 1.0?
Date: 10 Mar 94 18:05:28 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.763322728@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
References: <1994Mar10.083714.27067@resonex.com>
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In <1994Mar10.083714.27067@resonex.com> michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes:
>FreeBSD 1.1 is coming out soon, and Linux is approaching a new release.
>Any similar plans for NetBSD?
So far the word has been, it'll come out "when it's ready". There are
certain things the development team want to have finished and
completely bug free before releasing, and as long as that list still
has items to finish, they'll keep working. When all the lists of
things to do are finished, it will be released. I would imagine, in
my completely subjective opinion that it will be out well before
summer. I am not a member of the core team, however, so this is just
my opinion based on the "feel" of the system, and the kind of updates
I see lately to the sources (mostly cleanup, fine-tuning, and obscure
bug chasing).
If you don't want to wait, you can upgrade to NetBSD-current this very
minute. NetBSD-current is the development sources used by the core
team that will become 1.0 when they're done. These sources are
updated nightly, so you can keep your system within a couple days of
the current development tree. I've been running NetBSD-current since
November to get at a lot of the new features, and I must say that the
present state of the system is the most stable software I've ever run
on my PC (i.e. it's not buggy, and it's many times more stable than
even 0.9 was). NetBSD-current is a *very* impressive operating
system, and NetBSD-1.0 (for those who don't do current) will be well
worth the wait.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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