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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: What are the "new" things in 1.2.1
Date: 19 May 1997 22:43:57 GMT
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In article <5ldl5v$orc@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>,
hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer) writes:
>> Recently I looked to one of the NetBSD mirror sites and found a new
>> distribution release 1.2.1 (March 97), but without any documents or
>> READMEs that explain the changes to the 1.2 release?
This is something I've been meaning to comment on for a while. It seems
to me that the NetBSD project isn't very well coordinated and not very
well documented compared to say the FreeBSD project.
[No, that's not a cue for a NetBSD vs. FreeBSD argument, thank you].
Granted, the main reason must be that FreeBSD must be a lot easier to
coordinate with one platform compared to the 10+ for NetBSD.
But for example, the above lack of CHANGE history in the 1.2.1 release
tree (which I myself was looking for a few days ago, and I wouldn't have
thought to look in the src tree, although obvious now). Also, AFAICR lack
of announcement of the 1.2.1 release, at least in c.u.b.netbsd.announce,
go to prove my point, and the last time I looked at the web site, it still
said 1.2 was the latest release.
Don't get me wrong, I love what the NetBSD project has done, the above
is just intended as constructive criticism, the basic documentation and
release announcements could be better IMO.
> jabberwocky% cat NetBSD-1.2.1/source/src121/*.?? | tar plzvxOf - ./usr/src/PATCHLEVEL
> ./usr/src/PATCHLEVEL
>
> This file describes official patches for the NetBSD 1.2 release.
[...]
In fact quite a lot of changes.
-Paul-