The NetBSD team recently announced Beta 2 of NetBSD 6.0 and I would like to know in special how good its IPv6 support is. Although I have no productive use of NetBSD and haven't used it in any project yet, nor did I ever work on a productive NetBSD system somewhere else, I'm interested in NetBSD and track its progress because its diversity of available platforms.
I downloaded the amd64 ISO and installed it in a virtual machine using VMware Player 4.0.0 on Windows Server 2008. The installation went quite quick, it didn't even need 10 minutes! One of the first thing that should be done after installation is activating the SSH server, which can be done by executing "chmod u+w /etc/ssh/sshd_config" to enable editing the configuration file of the SSH server and then "vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config", uncommenting "Port 22", "AddressFamily any" and "PermitRootLogin" by pressing the "x" key, than setting the cursor to the "n" of "no", pressing "xx", then "i" and enter "yes" and last but not least pressing ESC and ":wq" to write the file and exit that masochistic program. "/etc/rc.d/sshd restart" restarts the SSH server. Now you can log in using SSH which is much more comfortable, because you can use copy & paste if you find some tips on the web!
Next important thing is to configure "pkg_add" which is required to install software. Last time we need that program that got stuck in 1960! Do a "vi ~/.profile" and go the first line that begins with "export PKG_PATH", press "x" do delete the "#" sign and then ESC, ":wq" to write the file. Now log off and on again or reboot.
With "pkg_add -v nano" we can install an editor that has at least the usability of a 1980 program. Then you could again edit your .profile using "nano ~/.profile" and for example add your favorite aliases. Mine ones are "alias dir='ls -lh'" and "alias adir='ls -lha'". :-)
Helpful documents can be found here and here.
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