Submitted by “The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 4.0 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection.”
Looks like it is time to upgrade my IBM Z50.
I’m glad to see it advance onward… whatever you guys behind this great os do…. don’t stop!
Keep up the good work NetBSD developers.
I am waiting for Stallman comments
He will declare that NetBSD is evil because you can surf on sites with non-free software in it with the browser that comes with NetBSD!
RMS is great programmer but other than that he’s non-practical fanatic.
Cool! I really like NetBSD. I’ve used Linux for a few years now, and decided to try something different a few months ago. NetBSD is very fast, clean, and minimal. A great stable kernel.
Congrats to the NetBSD project. I certainly hope they meet their goals for their fundraising campaign, as well.
I just check NetBSD.org and they have not announced it there yet
It’s on the main page now, but this is often done intentionally for many OS distributions: finish a release, allow for some time so that mirror sites can grab the ISO’s, and only *then* announce it widely (followed by a spike in download activity).
Shit… the Sinclair ZX81 I repaired last week, isn’t on the list of supported platforms
Maybe your inclair is not supported but my Celeron D does for sure. Great work guys. It is time to use it.
It’s not exactly NetBSD, but there are some *NIX type systems for the Z80, like UZI: http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html
You’ll need to add a few RAM packs to a ZX81 first though.
“It’s not exactly NetBSD, but there are some *NIX type systems for the Z80, like UZI:”
Wow, this seems to be a chance to have a UNIX emulator running on the GDR’s U880 (Z80 clone) based computers I still have down in the cellar.
On the other hand, maybe it’s possible to have some of robotron’s CP/M and UNIX style OSes run on the original Sinclair ZX81…
Maybe, one day we get a NetBSD version for the EAW P8000 UNIX machine: http://ans-netz.de/P8000/ – but there’s still the original UNIX OS called WEGA, a UNIX System III lookalike.
It in place, and popular, cause my torrent work on 400kbps rate
I’ve been following the netbsd-4 branch and it was very stable (for me) since 4.0RC2.
Congratulations to all the developers and users for this release.
It seems that NetBSD is becoming “relevant” again
What a nice birthday present to me!
Thank you NetBSD developers, your OS rocks!
Just finished installing NetBSD 4 on my Z50 and it is looking good. Actually, it works far better than NBSD 3, which had some problems. Xhpc in NBSD 3 was messed up. Thanks again NetBSD!
Edited 2007-12-19 22:39
It’s a shame their torrent files are transferred via ftp, as their ftp server only allows for 80 simultaneus users. Those ought to be http links (or hosted on another ftp server with less restrictive settings).
FYI: the same directory tree is served over http as well.
It seems that the 2007-Q3 pkgsrc tarball is the latest stable tarball but there is no modular-xorg-server package in x11. How does one install modular xorg from binary packages in NetBSD 4.0?
After this http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html its feels kinda sad to hear from NetBSD..
The mail is over a year old, so what’s your point about NetBSD 4.0 and NetBSD in general? The question “Where is NetBSD?” doesn’t make much sense and you better ask “where is NetBSD for me?” – NetBSD 4.0 is a good start to find this out