Download NetBSD 3.1 RC1

NetBSD is a Unix-like operating system with its roots in the 386BSD 0.1 branch. The first version, NetBSD 0.8, was available on April 21, 1993 and has been evolving ever since. Of the three known BSD variants, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, the latter supports most different platforms. The first release candidate of NetBSD 3.1 has been available for a few days now. This includes adding domU support for Xen3 and improving the stability of LFS. Geert Hendrickx’s announcement looks like this:

Hi,

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. Binaries and ISOs are available from here.

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. Alternatively, you can download the source sets from the URL above, under the source/ directory.

NetBSD 3.1_RC2 is expected to be released in two weeks, and will have fixed the build for NetBSD-vax.

Geert