http://www.osnews.com/story/13818/OpenBSD_3_9_Needs_Testing Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 05:40:27 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?99875 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99875 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?)Edited 2006-02-28 01:22 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (irbis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?99876 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99876 http://www.openbsd.com/plus.html

guess where it came from? ^^ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?99879 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99879 Ah, thanks for the link. There they talk about the package management too:

"Many pkg_add(1) improvements including -u option enabled now which automatically will update all installed packages." Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (irbis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?99918 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99918 Hey, that's sweet! One of the few things I find lacking about OpenBSD is actually being taken care of! :-)

Here's hoping that OpenBSD eventually will have a good, solid package management system with search capabilities. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DevL) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?99935 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99935 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 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Archite) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?99949 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99949 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). Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Organic_Info) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?99955 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99955 Well, 3.8 installs just fine under QEMU (Q really - a Mac OS X port of QEMU) so that's an alternative if you don't want to use VMware. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DevL) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?99973 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99973 This is great news! I can't wait to try it. I love it when a project keeps going forward and innovating and doing real progress. I haven't seen a list that big of changes in a distro in a while. Very comforting

--ZaNkY Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ZaNkY) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?99995 http://www.osnews.com/thread?99995 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 >_ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gunblade) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?100098 http://www.osnews.com/thread?100098 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. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kamper) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?100100 http://www.osnews.com/thread?100100 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 >_ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kamper) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?100216 http://www.osnews.com/thread?100216 I very much doubt that Xen will ever be ported to OpenBSD. It has been expressed that there is to be no GNU code in the kernel. So, those who want Xen might have to stick with NetBSD or Linux. Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Archite) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?100317 http://www.osnews.com/thread?100317 "Does anyone know if there is support for Xen in 3.9?"
There isn't. Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?100380 http://www.osnews.com/thread?100380 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? Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (koen) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?100413 http://www.osnews.com/thread?100413 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. Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ghen) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?100538 http://www.osnews.com/thread?100538 This I cannot tell you. I do no actively use NetBSD nor FreeBSD. I know that Xen's source is GPL though. Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Archite) Comments