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JMJ_coder
February 6th, 2009, 12:41 AM
Good news! NetBSD has released the first release candidate for NetBSD 5.0. Read more here (http://www.netbsd.org/changes/#5.0rc1).
cardinals_fan
February 6th, 2009, 03:26 AM
Hooray!
Sorivenul
February 6th, 2009, 07:43 AM
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
mohitchawla
February 6th, 2009, 08:32 AM
I hope ath5k and the related HAL issue is fixed (in their wiki on ASUS netbook, it says "might be fixed").
kk0sse54
February 8th, 2009, 08:31 PM
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.
Sorivenul
February 8th, 2009, 09:45 PM
: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.
cardinals_fan
February 11th, 2009, 07:03 AM
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
Sorivenul
February 11th, 2009, 07:16 AM
RC 2 is out!
Thanks for the update!
kk0sse54
February 12th, 2009, 01:26 AM
RC 2 is out!

You beat me every time :P
cardinals_fan
February 12th, 2009, 03:06 AM
You beat me every time :P
I'm just good like that ;)