Last week both NetBSD and Intel Pentium celebrated their 20 years “birthday”. On March 21st 1993 the project had its first commit to CVS. The first Intel Pentium CPUs were released the day after on March 22. Pentium trademark currently lost it power to Core one but it is still used as less powerful line than their Core counterparts (though based on the same architecture). My first computer had Intel Pentium 200 MHz with MMX instructions around 1998, however I’ve used Windows 95 and 98 at that time. My initial introduction into NetBSD world came much later and it wasn’t very pleasant (I destroyed my partition table just before bachelor thesis had been completed). Nevertheless I started to use it more and more often. Currently NetBSD coexists as major OS with Fedora Linux and it is used in some other environments. You can also read this interesting article about key NetBSD history facts.

What is more, NetBSD 6.1 Release Candidate 2 was released last week too. You can download it at http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1_RC2/ or some other mirrors. Changes between RC1 and RC2 are described at official release announcement. If you can, please, test it on your systems and provide a feedback to the project developers in any form :).