Raspberry Pi 2 is now officially supported

Jun 21, 2015 23:40 GMT  ·  By

Soren Jacobsen from the NetBSD project had the pleasure of announcing earlier the immediate availability for download and testing of the first RC (Release Candidate) version of the upcoming NetBSD 7.0 operating system.

While not a Linux kernel-based operating system, NetBSD 7.0 RC1 is the first release to introduce ARM multiprocessor support, as well as to improve support for AMD Radeon and Intel graphics cards by porting the Linux DRM/KMS code. Also, the X.Org display server and many of its components have been updated as well.

Support for the Raspberry Pi 2, ODROID-C1, BeagleBone Black, Merii Hummingbird, BeagleBoard-xM, GlobalScale MiraBox, Banana Pi, Sharp Netwalker PC-Z1, BeagleBone, Marvell ARMADA XP, Cubieboard 2, Kobo, and Cubietruck single-board computers has been added as well in NetBSD 7.0 Release Candidate 1.

"On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the first release candidate of NetBSD 7.0," says Soren Jacobsen. "Many changes have been made since 6.0. [...] Please help us out by testing 7.0_RC1. We love any and all feedback. Report problems through the usual channels (submit a PR or write to the appropriate list)."

NetBSD 7.0 will bring many interesting new features

Additionally, this release comes with many other new features, such as Lua kernel scripting, GPT support in sysinst, multiprocessor USB stack, GCC 4.8.4, LLVM/Clang 3.6.1 (optionally at the moment), and numerous enhancements to the NetBSD packet filter, NPF.

Those of you who want to test the NetBSD 7.0 Release Candidate 1 operating system can download the binary images right now from Softpedia, but please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version and it's not ready for production use. We only offer ISOs for the 64-bit and 32-bit platforms, but you can download NetBSD 7.0 RC1 for more architecture from the project's FTP server.