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Favourite Toy of the Week: Mac Pro

Posted on 8 August, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

Apple finally released the Intel CPU based desktop Mac yesterday: The Mac Pro Just like I guessed back in January it took Apple a few more month to replace the old G5 based Power Mac desktops for two reasons: The … Continue reading →

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NetBSD 4 branch created

Posted on 8 August, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

Jeff Rizzo created the NetBSD 4 branch yesterday. It will result in the NetBSD 4.0 release in a few month from now. I’m personally not convinced that NetBSD-current was ready for this. There are e.g. compatibility problems between GCC 4.1.2 … Continue reading →

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NetBSD 3.0.1 released

Posted on 24 July, 2006 by Matthias Scheler

We, NetBSD’s release engineering team, finally finished the release cycle for NetBSD 3.0.1 today. It took (as usual) much longer than we a anticipated and wanted. Most of the delay was caused by stability problems of our build cluster. But … Continue reading →

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