"That's it for 3.9! Tree locks are upon us so unless something critical breaks, nothing will go in anymore. For me and Jordan this means to stop ACPI development until the tree is unlocked. So now it is of to test, test, test! That goes for you too; if you are reading this you should stop and install snapshots on as many machines and architectures as possible. We always appreciate test reports from folks in the field."
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AFAIK, OpenBSD is trying to improve its package and ports management, making, for example, upgrading OpenBSD much faster and handier. What is the state of that development process?
(Btw, where can I read what improvements 3.9 will have compared to 3.8 and earlier releases?)
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http://www.openbsd.com/plus.html
guess where it came from? ^^
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There are two ways in which one can search for packages. Download the packages index at ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/i386/index.txt. The second option is to install the ports and use `make search name=appname`. Although this is not the most convenient method for searching for packages, at least it works 
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Does anyone know if there is support for Xen in 3.9? A cursory search of the website reveals nothing.
Xen support would be ideal for testing allowing far more people to provide feedback and bug reports with out the need for more hardware resources.
Oh well perhaps a download of VMWare is required (for those on supported platforms).
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Does anyone know if there is support for Xen in 3.9? A cursory search of the website reveals nothing.
I hit up the mailing list archives a while ago for this. Don't think it's gonna happen, just because nobody is stepping forward with code. I figure it'll never come around because intel and amd will be through with the required hardware support before the problem gets pressing enough.
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NetBSD is ported to the latest version of Xen and FreeBSD is actively working on it too. I took a quick look at NetBSD's code, and everything under src/sys/xen seems to be under a BSD-license - did they rewrote Xen entirely, or are these just the changes they made to their own code and is the core of Xen not in their tree?
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Do they have a ppc distro? I am learning/using my first unix os or BSD or whatever you want to call it. With NetBSD on my apple G3 computer...still in the whole booting stage part >_<" It's been rough.
But if there is an IRC channel for real time help; and some documentation on how to install it on a G3 w/openfirmware prompt 3.1.1 I would try it out.
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Do they have a ppc distro? I am learning/using my first unix os or BSD or whatever you want to call it. With NetBSD on my apple G3 computer...still in the whole booting stage part >_<" It's been rough.
But if there is an IRC channel for real time help; and some documentation on how to install it on a G3 w/openfirmware prompt 3.1.1 I would try it out.
http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html
I don't mean to be nasty, but come on, it's a prominent link right off the main page.
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NetBSD is ported to the latest version of Xen and FreeBSD is actively working on it too. I took a quick look at NetBSD's code, and everything under src/sys/xen seems to be under a BSD-license - did they rewrote Xen entirely, or are these just the changes they made to their own code and is the core of Xen not in their tree?
The Xen kernel is GPL-licensed and is not part of NetBSD (nor FreeBSD or Linux). You need to install it as a package. The NetBSD-on-Xen bits are part of the kernel, and are of course BSD-licensed.
