Re: NetBSD HEAD 5-1

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>]

Gerard Lally <gerard%netmail.ie@localhost> wrote:

> Am I correct in thinking HEAD for 5-1 is the 5-1 RELEASE (of
> November 2010) plus fixes (up to September 2011) *without* the new
> features that will come with the 6.0 release (LVM, NPF, etc.)?

> Sorry - I phrased this the wrong way.

> What I should have said is, am I correct in thinking the latest 5-1
> at NetBSD-daily is the 5-1 formal RELEASE (of November 2010) plus fixes
> (up to September 2011) *without* the new features that will come with
> the 6.0 release (LVM, NPF, etc.)?

> If so, is this a better ISO to use than the formal release ISO of
> 11-2010? Does it include just security patches or does it include new
> drivers as well?

From what I've been told, and my interest in this is access to Linux ext2fs 
partitions, that you need to follow the netbsd-5 branch, not 5-1.

That would be the most advanced, what would lead to NetBSD 5.2 if that ever 
happens.  HEAD is the work in progress toward NetBSD 6.0.

netbsd-5 branch is called "NetBSD 5.1_STABLE".

Tom