OpenDarwin 7.2.1 Released

Hello,

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenDarwin 7.2.1 for both ppc and x86 architectures. OpenDarwin 7.2.1 is based on the Darwin 7.2 (which corresponds to Mac OS X 10.3.2) source release and licensed under the APSL. It includes additions and modifications from the OpenDarwin CVS Repository.

Notable changes from the OpenDarwin 6.6.2 release:

• Install script has been enhanced to allow user creating, settingroot password
• AuthenticAMD cpu's are now properly detected
• cvs from upstream feature releases
• locate from NetBSD
• at/atrun synced with FreeBSD-5
• various unix software has been updated.
• ODTulipDriver, a driver for tulip-based ethernet controllers, hasbeen added.
• ncutil, a network configuration tool for Darwin, has been updatedto version 2.1
• all the changes from Darwin 6.6 to Darwin 7.2

Complete release notes are available in ReleaseNotes.txt.

Architecture specific installation information is available at:

• ppc - INSTALL.ppc.txt
• x86 - INSTALL.x86.txt

The MD5 checksums for the install image is:

MD5 (OpenDarwin-7.2.1.iso.bz2) = 1a19bbf9bcec0dec0dfa7d9b19a4840f

There are 3 available mirrors for OpenDarwin 7.2.1:

• San Francisco, CA - www.opendarwin.org (Primary Mirror)
  OpenDarwin 7.2.1 (ppc and x86) - http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/7.2.1/opendarwin-7.2.1.iso.bz2
• University of Wisconsin - www.wisc.edu
  OpenDarwin 7.2.1 (ppc and x86) - http://mirror.services.wisc.edu/mirrors/apple/darwin/opendarwin/7.2.1/OpenDarwin-7.2.1.iso.bz2
• Germany - bay13.net (Courtesy Robert Depenbrock < robert atbay13.de >)
  OpenDarwin 7.2.1 (ppc and x86) - ftp://cytosine.bay13.net/pub/OpenDarwin/OpenDarwin-7.2.1.iso.bz2

For bug reports, please visit OpenDarwinBugzilla. You can discuss this release on the discuss atopendarwin.org or hackers at opendarwin.org list, asappropriate.

Felix Kronlage
Release Manager, OpenDarwin.org