Jan Schaumann announced today that, in order to provide a summary of the most important changes over the last few months, the NetBSD Foundation has decided to follow the example of other projects of releasing official status reports on a regular basis. The first quarterly status report, covering the activities within the NetBSD Project during the first three months of 2004 is now available online.
First NetBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2004
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I see netbsd are following in openbsd footsteps and removing gnu stuff (gawk in this case) kinda cool looking at the changelog for nawk and seeing fixes going back to 1987, on a slightly similar note i came across a version of Debian woody built with uclibc instead of glibc.
http://people.debian.org/~andersee/uwoody/main/binary-i386/
1.6.2 runs like gangbusters on my Sun Sparcstation 5, I can’t wait until 2.0. Shouldn’t be suprised that its much faster on this older hardware then Solaris 9. 🙂 No disrespect to Solaris though. The more time I spend with NetBSD the more I like it.
Shouldn’t be suprised that its much faster on this older hardware then Solaris 9
I some how doubt it. First, for every new revision they are many bugs produced by such an overhaul. That means that if it were going to be faster, it probably wouldn’t be faster until 2.1 or 2.2, 2.0 will probably just getting the new framework which has the potential to be faster. Second, I’m guessing that since Linux’s improvements in SMP, they will probably want to improve their own SMP capabilities which often produces more code need to control the system to allow it to scale. But I wish them all the luck in the world.
Keep in mind the age of my hardware, 32-bit with limited resources (64 megs RAM, 2 gig HD) – Solaris is much larger (and more robust, of course) and NetBSD is much more light weight. Naturally Solaris will outscale NetBSD, no one would argue against that, but on older hardware I have no doubts that Linux or NetBSD would rule Solaris’s ass. On a newer, SMP monster? Solaris. “Faster” is quite subjective, and it all depends on what you mean. For me, NetBSD is snappy as hell on this older Sun. I’d like to give Linux a whirl but Aurora Linux crashes on install, damn it.
I got a semi-dead Ultra 60, anyone know of where I could go for repairs or info? Thats the box I wanna run Solaris on, much newer, faster, more RAM, etc etc.
Are you looking for some place to send it, or for parts? Check sunhelp.org, they have a vendors page or something.
yeah!
I still run Solaris 9 in my old ss20, and it runs flawlessly. All my hardware works with it, even my old scsi dds tape drive. I’ll try NetBSD on it when the SMP feature make it’s way to Stable. Linux is ok, but it has some details….like the sound.
BSDero