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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Q: When to expect a 4.4-Lite based FreeBSD/NetBSD?
Date: 12 Aug 94 00:36:39 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <32dt8u$m7p@ra.nrl.navy.mil> cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) writes:
> 1. About when will there be a (beta is fine) release of a 4.4-Lite
> based FreeBSD or NetBSD? (messages saying ``whenever it's out''
> are not useful answers, I'm looking for an order-of-magnitude--
> are we talking a few days, a few weeks, or a few months?)
NetBSD-1.0 is already completely 4.4 based in the kernel.
Approximately half the userland stuff is currently 4.4, from what I
understand. Although there are currently test binaries already
available for NetBSD-1.0, it will probably be next week or the one
after before we see a true 1.0 release.
FreeBSD won't be bringing their 4.4-based system out until end of
September/beginning of October, from what I understand.
> 2. Is there a 4.4-Lite based ``current'' tree available from either
> of the core teams that's enough for an adventurous soul to get
> up and running? (crashing = not a problem. crashing really, really
> frequently = problem)
I'm running the NetBSD-1.0_Beta current tree that is the pre-release
stuff. It works excellently. My last long uptime before I started
doing some hardware upgrades on my machine, rebooting it frequently,
was 32 days. There are binaries of this current distribution on
ftp.iastate.edu -- but they are not an automatic install -- you'll
want to know what you're doing before blindly copying them onto a
drive.
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