“iMil” has posted a first version of his “pkgselect” tool, which offers a curses interface to navigate through pkgsrc, show installed packages and information on them, and allows easy installation and deinstallation. Very promising!
Haven’t tried this one but IMO such frontend would be more useful for managing binary packages, perhaps with the option to choose from which pkgsrc branch you want to grab the packages. Still, tools like this make NetBSD easier for newcomers. 🙂
That was a random peice of OSNews
netbsd.good.
NetBSD = VERY good
they’re mailling list has also been heating up lately
> Here’s a bunch of NetBSD and related news that I haven’t
> see on DaemonNews that people may be interested in
News stopped at October 2004.
It’s a shame, it was a good bsd journal to read.
feyrer’s blog is good to see what’s new in the netbsd world.
feyrer’s netbsd log is at
http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/NetBSD/blog.html
pkgselect: a pkgsrc curses user interface
“iMil” has posted a first version of his “pkgselect” tool, which offers a curses interface to navigate through pkgsrc, show installed packages and information on them, and allows easy installation and deinstallation. Very promising!
Haven’t tried this one but IMO such frontend would be more useful for managing binary packages, perhaps with the option to choose from which pkgsrc branch you want to grab the packages. Still, tools like this make NetBSD easier for newcomers. 🙂
>> Here’s a bunch of NetBSD and related news that I haven’t
>> see on DaemonNews that people may be interested in
>News stopped at October 2004.
>It’s a shame, it was a good bsd journal to read.
>feyrer’s blog is good to see what’s new in the netbsd world.
Only the ezine at http://www.daemonnews.org/ hasn’t published. The daily news at http://daily.daemonnews.org/ or http://bsdnews.com/ is still publishing regularly.
Anybody know how to edit GRUB on an already existing Linux system to dual boot NetBSD? Just thought I’d ask.