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From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: What are the "new" things in 1.2.1
Date: 14 May 1997 16:46:04 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
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Christoph Rimek (chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de) wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Recently I looked to one of the NetBSD mirror sites and found a new
> distribution release 1.2.1 (March 97), but without any documents or
> READMEs that explain the changes to the 1.2 release?
> 
> Can anyone help me out?
> What is new in this 1.2.1 release, is there so much new/better stuff
> included that it is worth upgrading?
> 

1.2.1 is a bugfix release for 1.2. It is worth upgrading only if you have
some stability problems with your 1.2 system, or unsupported (or not well
supported) hardware, or if you care about security.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.                 bouyer@masi.ibp.fr
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