NetBSD 5.0 RC1

Good news! NetBSD has released the first release candidate for NetBSD 5.0. Read more here.

Hooray!

The final release of 5.0 will be, IMO, as great for NetBSD as the release of 7.0 was for FreeBSD. I may even make the switch from Free to Net... :-k

I hope ath5k and the related HAL issue is fixed (in their wiki on ASUS netbook, it says "might be fixed").

Sorivenul said: The final release of 5.0 will be, IMO, as great for NetBSD as the release of 7.0 was for FreeBSD.

I hope, I'm really looking forward to the 5.0 release since the beta has been awesome so far.

I may even make the switch from Free to Net... :-k

:p And I want to try out FreeBSD again since last time I tried it with KDE it was just ungodly slow.

C!oud said: :p And I want to try out FreeBSD again since last time I tried it with KDE it was just ungodly slow.

I'm not a KDE fan, and only use KDE on FreeBSD when testing PC-BSD and DesktopBSD releases (these experiences were positive until the adoption of KDE 4). Otherwise, I stick with ion2 mostly.

RC 2 is out!

On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am proud to announce

that the second release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for download.

Since RC1, 103 tickets were pulled up. Interested readers can find the details of these tickets in src/doc/CHANGES-5.0. RC2 represents a great deal of progress over RC1, but with that amount of change, increased time for testing is required. To put it bluntly, there will definitely be a third release candidate. We are aware of a number of release-blocking issues, but it is important that we get a jump on testing the many changes made since RC1.

Binaries of RC2 can be downloaded from

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5-0-RC2/

Of course, those already tracking the netbsd-5 branch by source should continue to to so, and the netbsd-5-0-RC2 tag is available if you prefer to check out the RC2 sources specifically.

I'd like to thank all those who have helped so far in testing and providing feedback. Please keep up the good work, it is very much appreciated!

Enjoy, Soren

cardinals_fan said: RC 2 is out!

Thanks for the update!

cardinals_fan said: RC 2 is out!

You beat me every time :P

C!oud said: You beat me every time :P

I'm just good like that ;)