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NetBSD 5.1.1
Has anyone heard about a NetBSD minor release? I was looking for something to try during the cold weather and found this
NetBSD 5.1.1 The NetBSD-announce mailing list does not mention it. It also looks that there are precompiled binaries for 5.1. |
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The availability of 5.1.1 did not seem to be very coordinated. The *.iso's were built 18Dec2011 and there is no announcement/discussion. I have not had much luck with NetBSD so I do not follow development very closely. I do not recall if prior NetBSD releases went though beta/release candidate testing. Given the lack of an official blessing, should this be viewed as something in testing or a release. Anyone with inside information?
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I still cannot find information on the topic. I did a test install and noticed that pkg_add was crying that 5.1-STABLE compiled packages were for a different version (vs. 5.1.1), but they worked nevertheless.
I know FreeBSD sometimes uploads a newer release a day or two prior to announcement (even with 9.0-RELEASE right now), but in this case NetBSD 5.1.1 has been available for download for some time now. Packages are still compiled against a 5.1, though. |
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