For those who may have missed yesterday’s announcement, after a long beta and release candidate period, NetBSD 5.0 is finally available.

Andrew Doran has prepared a presentation (PDF) giving a high level overview of changes in 5.0 . Some highlights include:

  • Journaling enhancements to FFS (WAPBL)
  • Finer-grained locking on SMP systems
  • A new kernel module system
  • Vastly improved ACPI support
  • Many ports using X.Org instead ofXFree86

All in all, this is probably one of the most significant releases in the project’s history – kudos to all involved.

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