NetBSD 2.1 was finally announced today. Ordinarily I’d suggest you grab it while the ISOs were hot, but it’s been available from ftp.NetBSD.org and mirrors for almost a week now. I’m not quite sure why the announcement took so long – perhaps they didn’t want to steal Theo’s thunder? (OpenBSD 3.8 was released on 1 November).

I upgraded my primary boot and DHCP server (a dual SM61 Axil 320 SPARCstation 20 clone) from 2.0.2 to 2.1 this past Sunday without any hiccups.

[p0] mj@sign:~$ date && uptime && uname -srmn
Wed Nov 2 22:50:27 SAST 2005
10:50PM up 3 days, 1:44, 2 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.12, 0.08
NetBSD sign.pimp.org.za 2.1.0_STABLE sparc

I’ve already updated my source tree to netbsd-2-1, hence the _STABLE.

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