NetBSD 2.1 Released

jschauma writes “NetBSD for everyone! Lots of news regarding new NetBSD releases: On October 31st, 2005, NetBSD 2.0.3, a source-only security update of the NetBSD 2.0 release, was announced. Since many people are still somewhat confused by the new versioning scheme used in NetBSD, this release was preceeded by an explanation of the NetBSD branches. Only two days after the 2.0.3 announcement, on November 2nd, 2005, NetBSD 2.1 was released. NetBSD 2.1 is the first maintenance release of the netbsd-2 release branch, and was announced with binary distributions for 54 architectures. Primary means of distribution include bittorrent.”

Although I have never used NetBSD, I have heard good things and really support the principle of their project. One of my clients runs a fairly nice e-commerce web site using a pair of old Sparc workstations. These things are 13MHz beasts. All 8MB of RAM is working on this job. I can tell you however in the 3 years i’ve hosted their servers I have never had a single problem. If NetBSD can offer 3 years of uptime using extremely old equipment its defiantely a contender.