I’ve been meaning to upgrade my workstation to NetBSD -CURRENT (the HEAD branch) for a while now, and yesterday I finally got around to it. The upgrade (from a mid-July 3.0_BETA) went very smoothly – I followed my standard manual upgrade procedure, which completed without any problems.

uname -a:
NetBSD tesla.pimp.org.za 3.99.15 NetBSD 3.99.15 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jan 17 04:27:07 UTC 2006 builds@b4.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/HEAD/sparc64/200601160000Z-obj/home/builds/ab/HEAD/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC sparc64

I normally build my own non-release builds but my build server has been overheating of late, so decided to grab one from the Release Engineering team instead. My first impressions are favourable – X11 seems quite a bit snappier, in particular things that use the RENDER extension (like xterm with anti-aliased fonts).

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