NetBSD Archive

Chock full o’ NetBSD

Submitted by Jan Schaumann 2003-12-14 NetBSD 9 Comments

While it's no Indigo Espresso or a VAX Bar (though, of course, there is NetBSD/sgimips and NetBSD/vax), at least you can log in on a Mr. Coffee. And while the JavaStation has been running NetBSD for a while, full support is now completely in-tree:

New sysctl Infrastructure on NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-12-05 NetBSD 5 Comments

Andrew Brown has just committed a complete rewrite of the NetBSD kernel's sysctl infrastructure to the tree. More info here.

Binary Compatibility of Darwin on NetBSD; DragonFly BSD Slides

Submitted by Bascule 2003-11-03 NetBSD 9 Comments

NetBSD Emmanual Dreyfus says that COMPAT_DARWIN is now able to run MacOS X's XDarwin (X11). Darwin is Apple's MacOS X core. A fully functional Darwin binary compatibility on NetBSD/powerpc & NetBSD/i386 will imply getting MacOS X libraries to run any MacOS X program, just like NetBSD is now able to run binaries from Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and many other OSes. In the meantime, a very interesting slide show was released about DragonFly, showing many aspects of the work Matthew Dillon and cia are working on.

Wasabi Systems & BSDmall to Collaborate on NetBSD CD Distribution

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-23 NetBSD 12 Comments

BSDmall and Wasabi Systems today announced a collaboration to support the NetBSD user community by publishing regular distributions of the open source NetBSD operating system, beginning with the long-anticipated NetBSD 2.0 due early next year.

ARM Port Xscale Optimizations on NetBSD; AMD64 Crossbuilding

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-18 NetBSD 11 Comments

NetBSD's Steve Woodford announces that he has committed various Xscale micro-optimizations to the NetBSD/arm ports. NetBSD/arm is a collective term for NetBSD running on systems based on ARM Ltd's ARM architecture. Also, NetBSD's Frank van der Linden announced that he has added gdb support to the tree, as a result the NetBSD/amd64 port is now completely crossbuildable. NetBSD/amd64 is a port to the AMD64 family of processors.

New NetBSD Core Team Announced

Eugenia Loli 2003-10-15 NetBSD 5 Comments

NetBSD's Alistair Crooks announced the appointment of a new NetBSD core team.

Expanding Small NetBSD Systems

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-26 NetBSD 3 Comments

"Now that you have NetBSD installed on your palmtop, what will you do with it? Customizing and enhancing the installation can be tricky, but what if you had access to much more disk space? Michael Lucas explains how to enhance your palmtop experience with NFS support, so you can build and install software." Read the article at OnLamp.

Alpha, ARM, i386, SPARC NetBSD Ports Switch to GCC 3.3.1

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-22 NetBSD 7 Comments

The GCC3.3.1 switch on NetBSD has happened for some of the popular platforms. Matthew Green announced that he has switched the Alpha, ARM, i386, sparc and sparc64 ports to use GCC 3.3.1 as the default system compiler.

GCC 3.3.1 Switch Coming Soon on NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-09-06 NetBSD 18 Comments

Matthew Green says he is ready to switch Sparc, Sparc64, i386 & Alpha ports to using GCC3.3.1 by default. He's uploaded 4 snapshots, all cross compiled from i386-netbsd. However, there appears to be work involved with fixing approximately 193 broken packages, BSDForums reports.

Java 2 for NetBSD/i386 Binaries Available

Eugenia Loli 2003-07-21 NetBSD 4 Comments

Todd Verling says that binaries for JDK 1.2.2 and 1.3.1 for NetBSD are now available. You'll find binary packages from pkgsrc-wip, as well as Sun-style JDK images, including standalone JRE and debug JDK symbols. Another relevant story about it, here.

Palmtop NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-06-08 NetBSD 11 Comments

"Of course it runs NetBSD". NetBSD is fantastically portable, but that doesn't make it supremely easy to install on oddball hardware like a Dreamcast or a palmtop computer. Michael Lucas demonstrates cross-installation with the HP Jornada 728.

The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system

Guest post by Jago 2003-05-24 NetBSD 22 Comments

After the recent announcement that the FreeBSD boot scripts in /etc have been replaced with the next generation version imported from NetBSD, I've wanted to learn more about the new system, but wasn't able to find much info.

Debian NetBSD for SPARC

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-29 NetBSD 11 Comments

Matthew Garrett demonstrated his success in building a Debian system on the Sparc architecture on top of the NetBSD kernel. Additionally Joel Baker reported about significant work for the NetBSD/x86 port, such as dpkg and APT, that will work without additional patches. NetBSD runs on hardware unsupported by Linux.

NetBSD 1.6.1 ISOs are Online

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-21 NetBSD 6 Comments

Following the source and binary release of NetBSD 1.6.1, now the ISOs are up and ready for your downloading pleasure. Choose among almost 40 architectures.

NetBSD 1.6.1 Released

Submitted by SharkByte 2003-04-19 NetBSD 14 Comments

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.6.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 1.6.1 is a maintenance release for users of NetBSD 1.6 which provides the following updates relative to 1.6:

Open Source Alternative: NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-11 NetBSD 64 Comments

NetBSD's main claim to fame, so to speak, is its portability. Although ports of Linux are available for several platforms, NetBSD blows the penguin's doors off when it comes to platform support. Read the article at NewsFactor.

Staying Current with NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-11 NetBSD 20 Comments

Open source never stands still. Even the flexible and mature BSDs are continuing to evolve. In this article, Michael Lucas looks at the NetBSD upgrade process, demonstrating the most common steps to stay abreast of the current source code.

IRIX Binary Compatibility for NetBSD, Part 6

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-05 NetBSD 3 Comments

The sixth part of the interesting series of articles that discusses IRIX binary compatibility under NetBSD, is published at OnLamp.

UFS2 Ported to NetBSD

Eugenia Loli 2003-04-03 NetBSD 4 Comments

Frank van der Linden has committed UFS2 code (based on FreeBSD's UFS2 by Marshall Kirk McKusick) to NetBSD. UFS2 is an extension to FFS. It adds 64 bit block pointers (breaking the 1T barrier) and support for extended file storage. On other BSD news, OpenBSD got a port of XFree86 4.3.0, while Kerneltrap features an article about the new 1:1 threading implementation that has been merged into FreeBSD -current.

The NetBSD Project Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

Eugenia Loli 2003-03-19 NetBSD 12 Comments

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of development of the NetBSD Operating System. Erik Reid has been working on getting DRI support for NetBSD to work. Under NetBSD/i386 1.6P, a Matrox G450 has been reported to work, Radeon and Riva128 should be functional as well.