Random NetBSD News
Here's a bunch of NetBSD and related news floating around.
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NetBSD: Report From the 2004 Annual Meeting
An interesting summary from the 2004 Annual NetBSD Group Meeting was posted to the NetBSD -announce mailing list. The report discusses past achievements as well as future goals.
NetBSD Status Report for October – December ’04 published
The NetBSD Foundation has published its fourth quarterly status report, covering the months October through December of 2004. Among many other things, this status report covers the publication of the new NetBSD Logo, the new pkgsrc branch, the new NetBSD/iyonix port and of course the release of NetBSD
2.0.
Understanding NetBSD 2.0’s New Technology
NewsForge has published an interview with several prominent NetBSD developers:
"NetBSD is widely known as the most portable operating system in the world. It currently supports 52 system architectures . . . To celebrate the release, we've asked several well-known NetBSD developers to comment on some of NetBSD 2.0's new features." Read the interview here.
NetBSD: Ideas on Audio Framework and Hardware Mixing
Tamura Kent formally unveils his plans to add new functionality to NetBSD's audio framework (audio(9) and audio(4)) - specifically, the addition of an audio converter pipeline and in-kernel mixing. These additions along with audio device cloning would make it possible to natively support hardware mixing without the use of a software based soundserver.
NetBSD 2.0 Officially Available
The long wait for NetBSD 2.0 is over, the official release is here.
Netbsd 2.0 stable is out
The ISO of NetBSD 2.0 is currently available here.
NetBSD pkgsrc will freeze for preparation of stable branch
Alistair Crooks announced today that the NetBSD Packages Team will start a freeze on the pkgsrc tree in order to prepare for the release of the fourth stable branch, pkgsrc-2004Q4. The freeze will begin on December 6th
2004, and will last for a maximum of 2 weeks, during which the developers will bring down the PR count and fix problems shown by the bulk builds. Update: LiveCD/ISO instructions.
Interview with Hubert Feyrer of NetBSD
The NetBSD-PT Group did an interview via e-mail with Hubert Feyrer.
He has been a NetBSD developer for years and we wanted to know his views on NetBSD, his projects and some personal questions.
New NetBSD Logo Available
The NetBSD project has chosen their new logo. High-res version available too.
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter
"In NetBSD's sweet spot are organizations looking for a slim, lightweight, highly stable, and capable operating system to run the latest server applications on modest or specialized hardware." Read the article at ServerWatch.
A week in the BSD CLI
"I've always been comfortable using the command line interface to get specific tasks done. I already knew that I could do pretty much anything from the command line if I was willing to sit down, read manual pages, and learn -- or if I really had to. To prove it, recently I forced myself to use only the CLI for a week. I ended up learning a lot more than just a few command line arguments." Read the article at NewsForge. Jeff also writes: "I used Lynx as my browser; I don't really like Lynx, but what else is there?" May we suggest eLinks 0.10.x, Links and w3m? They all have way better rendering than Lynx!
New NetBSD Port, NetBSD/Iyonix
Gavan Fantom of NetBSD, has imported a new port into the NetBSD source tree, the new NetBSD/iyonix port.
The IYONIX pc is an ARM-based desktop machine. It offers virtually silent operation, low heat, and all the other odds and ends offered by a modern PC. NetBSD is one port closer to a
NetBSD/toaster port.
NetBSD 2.0 RC4 Tagged
A new release candidate RC4 of NetBSD 2.0 has been tagged. The changes since RC3 include fixes for IP Filter (concerning IPv6 and better backwards compatibility with existing configurations), checksum processing for bridge interfaces, support for the Adaptec AAR 2810SA raid controller, linux compatibility and changes to the pagedaemon in order to improve performance under heavy disk load.
NetBSD 2.0RC1 timings
John Finigan has made a few timing benchmarks of a kernel compile on NetBSD 2.0RC1 on single, dual, and quad SPARC configurations.
NetBSDs Quarterly Status Report published
Jan Schaumann published the NetBSD Foundation's third quarterly status report, covering the months July through September of 2004.
NetBSD 2.0 RC2 tagged
The much anticipated release of NetBSD 2.0 is getting closer and closer.
NetBSD 2.0 RC1 is out
And here is the official release and info of NetBSD 2.0 RC1.
NetBSD 2.0-RC1 Third Party Builds Available
Some NetBSD 2.0-RC1 builds for those how wants to try this RC1 for the i386 and sparc64. These are unofficial builds without extra patches, made by a NetBSD enthusiast/developer. UPDATE: Jan Schaumann of NetBSD writes:
NetBSD 2.0 status report
James Chacon of the NetBSD release engineering team has sent a report covering the status of the NetBSD 2.0 branch to the netbsd-announce mailinglist. The report contains a schedule for the release cycle, and a list of 2.0-specific bugs that need to be closed. This is still a good time to help us making this the best NetBSD release ever, by trying out the latest snapshots, and reporting bugs.