Recent blog entries for jschauma

NetBSD now a trademark
The NetBSD Foundation is proud to announce that it has registered the ``NetBSD®'' trademark. The foundation would like to thank Jay Michaelson (Wasabi Systems) for filing the application and providing answers to the US Patent Office, and Carl Oppedahl (Oppedahl & Larson) for giving advice and keeping the Foundation informed about the process. An official policy on the use of the NetBSD® trademark is currently being drafted and will be made public soon.

NetBSD Status Report
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.

Of course it runs NetBSD: NetBSD/xen!
Christian Limpach imported a new port into the NetBSD source tree: NetBSD/xen. Xen is is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Xen is Open Source software. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ for more details on Xen or join the port-xen mailing list.

NetBSD Packages Collection releases a new branch!
On behalf of the pkgsrc team, Alistair Crooks announced today that a new pkgsrc-2004Q1 branch of the NetBSD Packages Collection was created last night, and the freeze on committing to the pkgsrc trunk is now over. This branch, which includes some 4518 actively-maintained and supported packages, introduces a self-hosted pkgsrc infrstructure as part of the ever growing support of even more operating systems as well as a number of other goodies. Please see Alistair's message to the netbsd-announce mailing list for details.

NetBSD 2.0 Release Engineering Process has begun
James Chacon of the NetBSD Release Engineering team has announced that the Release Engineering process for the much awaited NetBSD 2.0 release has begun! At this time, the expected final release is scheduled for the end of May 2004. Please see James' message to the netbsd-announce mailing list for details.

Interix (Windows) support added to NetBSD's pkgsrc
Preliminary support for Interix, a UNIX-like environment for Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and 2003, has been added to pkgsrc. The support is still new and incomplete, but it is now possible to bootstrap pkgsrc and install simple packages. Interix is part of Microsoft's Windows Services for UNIX package. See Todd Vierling's email to the tech-pkg mailing list for more information.

NetBSD pkgsrc Conference!

pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and users are all welcome to attend.

For more information, including how to register and how to submit a presentation proposal, please visit http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/.

Too bad I can't go, this should be quite interesting, especially as I'm preparing two IRIX machines for exclusive pkgsrc use, including bulk-builds on IRIX (expect large breakage :-).

NetBSD imports XFree86 4.4.0
It appears that, unlike many other Open Source projects, NetBSD did not find any serious problems with the much-debated license change of XFree86 4.4.0: it was just imported into the tree.

NetBSD 1.6.2 released!
NetBSD 1.6.2 has been released, with binary distributions for 40 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6.2 release announcement.

This is an update to NetBSD 1.6 and 1.6.1, and we strongly recommend users of NetBSD 1.6.1 and previous releases upgrade their systems, as many security issues and other bugs have been fixed.

Many of the FTP Mirrors are now carrying the NetBSD 1.6.2 distribution. Please try to use the NetBSD FTP Mirror Site closest to you.

Czech, Dutch, German, French, Korean, Lithuanian, Russian and Spanish language translations of the NetBSD 1.6.2 release announcement are available.

NetBSD in 2003 - Annual NetBSD Status Report
On February 7th, The NetBSD Foundation held its annual meeting, during which the developers discussed, among other things, how NetBSD progressed over the last year and what things are planned for the comming year. The Annual NetBSD Status Report summarizes this meeting and provides an overview of past, present and future of the NetBSD Project, the NetBSD operating system, pkgsrc and the NetBSD Foundation both in general and from the perspective of each group, to give users and people interested in NetBSD insight into the project. Please join our mailing lists for participating in ongoing discussion, and see our web site for more information about the NetBSD project, http://www.NetBSD.org.