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NetBSD 5.1_RC1 available

April 30, 2010 posted by Soren Jacobsen

The first release candidate of NetBSD 5.1 is now available for download at:

http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.1_RC1/

Those of you who prefer to build from source can continue to follow the netbsd-5 branch, but the netbsd-5-1-RC1 tag is available as well.

There have been quite a lot of changes since 5.0. See src/doc/CHANGES-5.1 for the full list, or your platform's INSTALL notes for a summary.

Please help us test this and any upcoming release candidates as much as possible. Remember, any feedback is good feedback. We'd love to hear from you, whether you've got a complaint or a compliment.

Enjoy!

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Comments:

I wonder if it is still lacking xv for intel cards... Is anyone able to tell? It is frustrating to not be able to use mplayer & Co (the computer is to slow for software scaling).

Posted by 127.0.0.1 on April 30, 2010 at 07:34 AM UTC #

hmm.. I have an Intel i945GM chipset and mplayer -vo xv runs correctly. Just try these options for /etc/X11/xorg.conf : Option "DRI" "true" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy" in Device section

Posted by chets on May 09, 2010 at 08:35 PM UTC #

when can we expect final release? waiting for it...

Posted by ripple on May 20, 2010 at 05:55 PM UTC #

What mailing list should I read to follow discussion about 5.1_RC1?

Posted by jm on May 24, 2010 at 07:21 PM UTC #