NetBSD 6.0 RC1 Released

Posted by Michael Larabel on August 31, 2012

NetBSD 6.0 RC1 is now available for this BSD alternative to FreeBSD.

This first release candidate of NetBSD 6.0 offers many changes -- mostly bug-fixes and package updates -- compared to the previous beta of NetBSD 6.

The changes for NetBSD 6.0 RC1 can be found in the NetBSD Blog announcement.

Significant changes in moving from NetBSD 5.0 to 6.0 are documented here.

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