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From: glass@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 10 Mar 94 15:42:07
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In-reply-to: michaelv@iastate.edu's message of 10 Mar 94 18:15:59 GMT
Michael L. VanLoon writes:
>Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> writes:
Actually, 0.9 is the last official release. I'd recommend getting and
installing 0.9 initially and getting a feel for how the system works.
NetBSD-1.0 is probably a couple months away, yet. The core team won't
release it til it meets all their pre-determined criteria for what
they want 1.0 to contain, and until every bug they're aware of has
been fixed.
So, the interum version is called NetBSD-current. It is a nightly
snapshot of the current development sources. I've been running
NetBSD-current since mid November, and the present state of the system
is the most stable software/OS I've ever run on my PC. Since NetBSD-
current isn't a release unto itself, however, you'll have to have 0.9
installed first, then lay current on top of that. There's a fairly
simple procedure for doing so if you're connected to the internet.
I'll send you personally a much longer spiel on all this.
--Michael
Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
I wanted to clarify a number of points raised by Michael's post.
a) No release date has been announced or promised.
b) The only people who officially speak for the NetBSD project as a
whole are the NetBSD core, who are currently:
Chris G. Demetriou
Theo Deraadt
Charles Hannum
Adam Glass
We can be reached at <core@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>, though
<netbsd-comments@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu> is almost always more
appropriate. We're extremeley busy, and don't read news as much as we
used to in the earlier days...
In addition, the authors/integrators of the various ports are the only
ones who really speak for them. Historically, the core own the i386 port...
c) We will put out a release as soon as possible. A small and well defined
defined set of tasks remain to be completed before we issue a release. We
hope to complete these tasks in short order, but remember we are a
volunteer group with other responsibilities (eat, sleep, be merry, etc.).
d) It is our intent to make this coming release a multi-architecture release.
This means one common snapshot of the mainline tree as the basis for
binary releases for many of our supported platforms.
e) Again, it ain't official unless you hear it from the core or from the port
owner.
later,
Adam Glass