Diary for jschauma
Older diary entries for jschauma (starting at number 164):
13:00
NetBSD
Alrighty! Every IRIX Sysadmin's nightmares end, as NetBSD's Packages Collection is now also available for IRIX. Porting bootstrap-pkgsrc over wasn't even too much of a pain. Everybody enjoy - I certainly do!12:35
NetBSD
Finally, it has happened: NetBSD-current now has SMP support! Frank van der Linden has merged Bill Sommerfeld's i386mp branch into i386/-current. i386 SMP support should work fine on 1-CPU systems and quite well on a lot of multiprocessor systems. Please see Frank's E-Mail to the current-users mailinglist for details.11:14
NetBSD
The NetBSD Project has announced the availability of NetBSD 1.6 ISO images. Bootable images are available for NetBSD/alpha, NetBSD/cats, NetBSD/i386, NetBSD/pmax, NetBSD/sparc, NetBSD/sun2, NetBSD/sun3 and NetBSD/vax. Please use a mirror close to you.23:30
Hmmm, something really odd seems to have fucked up my last message. I recall an untermined quote in a tag, but that's not it. Weird, that. Well, sorry, <standard-excuse>wasn't my fault<standard-excuse>.14 Sep 2002 (updated 14 Sep 2002) »
11:51
NetBSD
NetBSD 1.6 has been released, with binary releases for 39 architectures. More information is available in the 1.6 release announcement.Users are strongly encouraged to consider upgrading to 1.6, as we believe this to be the best release of NetBSD yet!
Many of the FTP Mirrors are now carrying the NetBSD 1.6 distribution. Please try to use the NetBSD FTP Mirror Site closest to you.
Czech, German, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish language translations of the NetBSD 1.6 release announcement are available.
10:29
NetBSD
With the publishing of the final ballot of the Board Elections on September 12th, a one-year long effort to establish a more democratic structure in the NetBSD Project came to a successful end. The Nomination Committee's slate for the new Board has been accepted by the Members of the NetBSD Project with an overwhelming majority. Out of the 124 valid votes cast, 122 approved the Nomination Committee's slate.The members of the new NetBSD Board are:
- Chris G. Demetriou, 2 year term
- Luke Mewburn, 2 year term
- Alistair G. Crooks, 1 year term
- Scott Reynolds, 1 year term
- Christos Zoulas, 1 year term
The details of the election procedure are available online.
15:30
NetBSD
ONLamp.com has published the second part of Emmanuel Dreyfus's ``IRIX Binary Compatibility'' article series. In this part, Emmanuel talks about Unix Program Startup and the ELF Auxiliary Table.14:10
NetBSD
``IRIX Binary Compatibility'', the first paper of a series on IRIX binary compatibility on NetBSD by Emmanuel Dreyfus, has been published by ONLamp.com. The paper goes into the details of the implementation in the NetBSD kernel. As it explains how things are implemented, the paper documents various kernel susbsystems and reverse engineering techniques.26 Jul 2002 (updated 26 Jul 2002) »
10:22
It's System Administrator Appreciation Day - so be nice to your geek, lest she turns into a BOFH.21:00
NetBSD Following Harvard Eidnes' posting to the NetBSD-announce Mailinglist, it is now official: NetBSD 1.5.3 is out! Please see the aforementioned posting or the announcement on the website for details. When downloading, please use a mirror close to you.
