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2006-11-09 BSD Release: NetBSD Live! 2007
The NetBSD project has released a complete live CD with automatic hardware detection and an option to boot into a graphical desktop with KDE. Called NetBSD Live! 2007, the CD image is available for the i386 processor architectures: "This CD-ROM contains a specially constructed version of NetBSD 4.0_BETA sporting a modified kernel based on NetBSD-CURRENT. Booting is done using an adapted version of the GRUB boot loader. The CD contains the following software packages in addition to the base operating system files: XFree86, KDE 3.5.4 with multiple language sets; joe and kvim text editors; AbiWord word processor, Dia 0.9.4 flow-charting and diagramming application, Inkscape 0.44 vector graphic application; The GNU Image Processor (GIMP) 2.2; Firefox web browser...." Read the complete release notes for further information. Download: netbsd-live-2007.iso (701MB); also available via BitTorrent.
2006-11-04 BSD Release: NetBSD 3.1
NetBSD 3.1 has been released: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 3.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available in both source and binary form. NetBSD is a general-purpose Open Source operating system that provides interfaces for running a wide range of applications on a big number of different hardware platforms, all from one source tree. NetBSD 3.1 contains many bug fixes, security updates, new drivers and new features like support for Xen3 DomU." Read the rest of the release announcement for a detailed list of changes and new features. Download (MD5): i386cd-3.1.iso (208MB), amd64cd-3.1.iso (151MB). The CD images for a large number of processor architectures are also available for download via BitTorrent. On a related note, NetBSD 3.0.2, an updated version of the NetBSD 3.0 branch, is also out.
2006-10-12 Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC4
Geert Hendrickx has announced that the fourth release candidate of NetBSD 3.1 is ready for testing: "We had become aware of a few OpenSSL vulnerabilities which we didn’t want to leave unfixed in the NetBSD 3.1 release, hence we’ve extended the release cycle with a fourth release candidate. Binaries and ISOs for NetBSD 3.1_RC4 are available on the releng FTP mirrors. Apart from the OpenSSL fixes, we took advantage of this extra release candidate to add some more improvements: MS DOS file system: write performance of large files has been improved; toolchain: NetBSD 3.1_RC4 can be cross-built from NetBSD 4.0_BETA and -current (GCC 4.x); daily security report for /etc/exports has been improved; dhclient(8) exits gracefully if another instance is already running...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and download links. Download (i386): i386cd-3.1_RC4.iso (208MB, MD5).
2006-09-18 Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC3
The third release candidate of NetBSD 3.1 is ready for testing: "It is my pleasure to announce that the third release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. Improvements since the second release candidate include: fixed recent security issues with BIND, OpenSSL and X11 font handling; added ’xm shutdown’ support for Xen3 domUs; honor the user’s umask when creating UNIX domain sockets; fixed some Xen timing and clock issues; fixed serial console on the second serial port of sparc64 machines; fixed DHCP in sysinst on 64-bit archs. We anticipate this to be the final release candidate for the NetBSD 3.1 release, so, if no serious problems arise, we expect NetBSD 3.1 to be released on October 2." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download the i386 ISO image from here: i386cd-3.1_RC3.iso (208MB, MD5).
2006-09-05 Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC2
Geert Hendrickx has announced the availability of a second release candidate of NetBSD 3.1: "on behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the second release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. Improvements over the first release candidate include: fixed the build of NetBSD-vax; fixed a buffer overflow in PPPoE/ISDN PPP; closed a socket leach in accept(2); removed references to sushi(8) from the afterboot(8) manpage; fixed an integer overflow in FreeType; disabled threading in named(8) to avoid a crash on sparc and sparc64; fixed a potential DoS vulnerability in sendmail(8)...." More details about the changes can be found in the release announcement. CD images for a number of processor architectures are available from the project’s main FTP server and its mirrors; here is a quick link to the i386 image: i386cd-3.1_RC2.iso (208MB, MD5).
2006-08-22 Development Release: NetBSD 3.1 RC1
Geert Hendrickx has announced the first release candidate of NetBSD 3.1: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the first release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. NetBSD 3.1 is a feature update for NetBSD 3.0, and features domU support for Xen3, massive LFS stability improvements, and lots of other, smaller improvements, additions, and bug fixes. If you want to build NetBSD 3.1_RC1 from source, cvs up your source tree to ’netbsd-3-1-RC1’, or just along the ’netbsd-3’ branch. NetBSD 3.1_RC2 is expected to be released in two weeks, and will have fixed the build for NetBSD-vax." More details can be found in the release announcement. Download the i386 ISO image from here: i386cd-3.1_RC1.iso (208MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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