NetBSD 1.5.2 Package Release

by Wasabi Systems, Inc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00005YTQ3
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 21, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,245 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

NetBSD 1.5.2 open source operating system for 20 architectures, with 2 GB of third-party software for the x86 architecture. This 5-CD set includes window managers, office suites, games, utilities and development tools.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great OS, no documentation., May 4, 2002

By 

Ron R. Carter "Caveat Emptor" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: NetBSD 1.5.2 Package Release (CD-ROM)

NetBSD has been around for years and the fact that it has been successfully ported to many different architectures attests to its cleanliness of design. It offers all the features of a powerful OS and none of the frills--which is left for the user to install. My only complaint with this product is that there is no userās manual with it. Why pay so much money for something you can download from the Web for free? Wasabi plans on providing a userās manual "in the future" but there is no telling when or if this will happen.

Other than that, I was able to easily install NetBSD on my old Micron Pentium 133 notebook with its cracked, nearly unreadable, screen and dead CDROM drive. By consulting various online sources I was able to get X-Windows running and figure out that I had to modify some config files to get basic TCP/IP services running (which suprised me since I installed the BSD packages using ftp). Being impatient with having to search through so much on-line documentation to get simple functions working and not having used Unix for a few years, I ran out and bought a book with the FreeBSD distribution. FreeBSD did not recognize my my PCMCIA interface properly so I was not able to install it using ftp. I am back to using NetBSD with the FreeBSD manual as my guide.

If you are a Unix guru or have some time and patients, your Internet connection is slow, and you do not mind paying someone so much money for simply making a CDROM, then buy this product. Otherwise, be forewarned that it does not come with documentation.