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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: 3, Touché) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday October 12 2015, @02:51AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday October 12 2015, @02:51AM (#248262) Homepage Journal

    If I am to make a real difference on a codebase, it's best if it starts out as a steaming pile. That just doesn't happen with any of the BSDs.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by cnst on Monday October 12 2015, @03:52AM

    by cnst (4275) on Monday October 12 2015, @03:52AM (#248272)

    It's important to be able to grasp what the code is doing, and make sensible changes easily.

    OpenBSD is one of the easiest ones, I think, because it doesn't have almost any untested or dead code (NetBSD probably has the most), and minimal use of preprocessor marcos, making it much easier to understand the code compared to FreeBSD, which has so many macros and awk-based source files that it gets quite crazy.

    That's not to say that OpenBSD doesn't have bugs -- it has lots of bugs, just as any other software out there, but the difference is that they're quite easy to grasp and fix.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @09:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2015, @09:52PM (#248647)

    I gave it a whirl last night in a VM on my LinuxMint system ... timemachine back to the 1990's. Console welcome.

    login:

    Ok, and then I dared for the impossible:

    > startx

    This brought tears and memories to me. I recall a GEM system back on an Apple ][ that looked like this, circa 1984.

    BSD, for a retro experience in 2015. Worth the 371MB ISO download for a good laugh.