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Throwing it all away (Score:1)
I think they wanted to be able to use three numbers: major, minor, patch. To stick with a leading "1.", that would mean release numbers like "1.7.1.2".
> throwing away their excellent logo
Are you referring to the WWII image? It is too complicated to shrink to a small size. Some people don't like the association with war.
I'm not a big fan of the new logo, but I don't really care that much about it either.
> They're going to cram in more features
I won't say anything about PAM, since it doesn't address my needs at all. Presumably it meets someone's needs, or Core wouldn't want it in.
As for the other features, I expect them to come in rather slowly and carefully. For me, 2.0 has worked fine , but then again I haven't been stressing the new stuff (SMP and threads). It seems like NetBSD is doing time-gated releases, rather than feature-gated release, given that they're about to ship 3.0 without much in the way of new stuff (PAM -- what else?). That should prevent a FreeBSD5-style never-ending development cycle.
If you want a maintained NetBSD branch with no major features being added, OpenBSD might be appropriate.
Though I too would rather have NetBSD-1.5 with security patches.
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