First Look At NetBSD 6.0 RC 1

I am just fascinated! While my first look at NetBSD 6.0 Beta 2 was not so much exciting because it made me still angry that I had to use vi and edit a file in order to be able to use pkg_src (what I think almost everyone would like to do), NetBSD 6.0 RC got a real boost! In the installation process, just elect to install "pkgin" and elect to setup pkg_src. Although it was a bit frustrating that ftp.netbsd.org wasn't accessable via IPv6 and that the IPv4-server of ftp.netbsd.org always interrupts transfers (so downloading a few megabytes lasted very long), everything went smoothly. After the first boot, I commanded

pkgin install nano

and confirmed that I would like to download nano and a few seconds later, nano was installed and it worked. :-) That is how things should work! Because I don't like /bin/sh so much, I also installed bash using "pkgin". Really, I am delighted! :-) The only negative point is that "chsh" uses vi, but may be there is a way to change that. My favorite desktop XFCE is installed with the package "xfce4-desktop". Packages "xfce4-session", "xfce4-mousepad", "xfce4-settings", "xfce4-wm-themes" and "xfce4-utils" are highly recommended. After editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc like describes in Chapter 9 of the NetBSD documentation it is possible to start XFCE using startx.