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NetBSD 7.0 Available

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday October 11 2015, @09:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the sounds-like-an-improvement dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The NetBSD Project has announced the release of version 7 of the operating system, which is known for its portability.

Acceleration, with a direct rendering manager (DRM) and kernel mode-setting (KMS), is now available on recent Intel and Radeon graphics chips.

The new version ships with a daemon, blacklistd, which can block unwanted network connections.

The installer now supports GPT-partitioned disks.

ARM multiprocessing is now possible, and several ARM-based single board computers are now supported.

NetBSD now has an experimental port to certain Psion PDAs.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by throwaway28 on Monday October 12 2015, @12:49AM

    by throwaway28 (5181) on Monday October 12 2015, @12:49AM (#248222) Journal

    FYI, GPT partitioning is necessary to support drives greater than 2 terabytes. Lack of support for it, was one of the reasons for moving away from slackware.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @02:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @02:26AM (#248256)

    Actually, it is limited to 2^32 sectors. Most newer hard drives use 4096 sectors and therefore have a maximum of 16 TB of space. However, if your OS uses 512 emulation or has 512 wired in, then they can freak out with the larger drive.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @08:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @08:27PM (#248603)

    NetBSD does support GPT partitions, via wedges:

    https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/mlelstv/using-large-disks/ [netbsd.org]