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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: 11 Mar 94 03:57:41 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.763358261@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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In <1994Mar10.160735.2842@resonex.com> michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes:
>In article <michaelv.763322728@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>>If you don't want to wait, you can upgrade to NetBSD-current this very
>>minute.
>What's the status of this, now that agate is no longer available as
>a NetBSD ftp site? I would assume the mirror sites still have -current
>as of the time agate when away, but what about future updates?
Actually, sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu is the source of all NetBSD source
developments. This is the machine the core groupd does actual source
committals on, and is where the current sources are generated for sup,
ftp, etc. Agate was just handy to keep the load off sun-lamp, since
it only allows a small number of concurrent connections, being used
for much more imporatant tasks.
Ftp.iastate.edu (among several other sites, including
gatekeeper.dec.com) is a complete mirror of the NetBSD-0.9 and
NetBSD-current sources. We do have the current binaries on line,
also, but are having some problems getting them to stick with proper
ownerships and permissions since the server is actually writing them
to AFS, and AFS isn't cooperating. If we get a local drive to use for
this purpose (no real status on this yet -- may not happen), we will
be able to provide a reliable source of current binaries, also.
>>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.
>Yes, I don't doubt that at all, and NetBSD is still my PC-OS of choice.
>But with a new Linux and a new FreeBSD coming out Real Soon Now, support
>for NetBSD might wane if it's perceived to not be as "up-to-date". After
>all, there were some problems in 0.9, and a lot of people don't want to
>bother with NetBSD-current, but would prefer an easy-to-install package.
NetBSD-current is still beta, and it's already substantially more
stable than 0.9 ever was. I guarantee everyone will be pleased with
it, if my impressions are anything to go by. And, I might add, if the
next release of NetBSD comes out after the other two, that would make
it the most up-to-date of them all. ;-)
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michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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