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NetBSD 9.1 Released With X11 Fixes

On October 18th, NetBSD 9.1 was released. A few of the highlights included in the latest NetBSD upgrade are listed below:
  • Parallelized disk encryption with cgd(4)
  • Added support for Xen 4.13
  • Added support for more hardware RNGs in the entropy subsystem
  • Various reliability fixes and improvements for ZFS
  • X11 improvements, default window manager switched to ctwm(1)
  • Improved framebuffer console performance on amd64
  • Various instances of kernel memory corruption and information leakage were fixed
  • Many other miscellaneous bug fixes, and additions to existing device drivers
  • see the full changelog here
NetBSD 9.1 was released on the same day as OpenBSD 6.8, giving BSD users an interesting choice between two very stable operating systems based on a BSD Kernel. The last update before 9.1 was NetBSD 9.0 in February 2020. NetBSD is known to support dozens of different host machines and architectures. The following are probably the most notable, but NetBSD supports at least 40 different types of host machines.

NetBSD/aarch64 Arm 64-bit

NetBSD/amd64 AMD family processors like Opteron, Athlon64, and Intel CPUs with EM64T extension
  
NetBSD/amiga Commodore Amiga and MacroSystem DraCo

NetBSD/amigappc PowerPC-based Amiga boards

NetBSD/bebox Be Inc's BeBox

NetBSD/i386 IBM PCs and PC clones with i486-family processors and up

NetBSD/mac68k Apple Macintosh with Motorola 68k CPU

NetBSD/macppc Apple PowerPC-based Macintosh and clones
   

You can download NetBSD 9.1 from the official website. Choose a download mirror near you for better download speed!

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