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6 Dec 2003  »

New York
Lots of snow. Neat!

NetBSD
Andrew Brown has committed a complete rewrite of the kernel's sysctl infrastructure. Some of the new features are:

Andrew also cross compiled 150 kernels for 30 architecures to see where some problems might come up. Additional information can be found in Andrew's email to current-users.

4 Dec 2003  »

NetBSD:
As many users will probably have noticed by the increase in recent pkgsrc commits, the NetBSD Packages Collection freeze is now officially over. Starting October 6th, 2003 and lasting almost two months, the NetBSD Packages team concentrated upon stabilizing the over 4,000 software packages and the pkgsrc infrastructure to prepare for a stable pkgsrc branch. During that time, the number of broken packages during a i386 bulk build was brought down to a mere 15, and a large number of PRs was closed.

A new branch with the tag ``pkgsrc-2003Q4'' was created, allowing our users to maintain a highly stabilized third-party software package managment environment, as only pullups of significant importance (such as security issues) are applied to this branch.

20 Oct 2003  »

NetBSD:
The NetBSD Project has created a new mailing list, tech-cluster. As the name suggests, this list is intended for technical discussions on building and using clusters of NetBSD hosts. Initially, this list is expected to be of low volume, but we hope to advocate and advance the use of NetBSD in such environments significantly. Subscription is via majordomo -- please see this page for details.

29 Jul 2003  »

CrossOver Office for NetBSD/i386
Todd Vierling has created kernel diffs and an installer wrapper script that makes it possible to run CrossOver Office. See his posting to the current-users MailingList as well as http://www.duh.org/cxoffice/ for full details.

22 Jun 2003  »

2vcard
2vcard version 0.5 released; now supports eudora and ldif format.

20 Apr 2003  »

NetBSD
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 and earlier, with binary releases for 40 ports, and of course also including NetBSD's Packages Collection. A complete list of changes can be found in CHANGES-1.6.1. Please use a mirror close to you.

1 Apr 2003  »

22:09
NetBSD
In an effort to get more people actively involved in pkgsrc, NetBSD's Packages Collection, Thomas Klausner created a sourceforge project called "pkgsrc-wip".

See Thomas's announcement to the tech-pkg MailingList for more details.

19 Mar 2003  »

13:00
NetBSD
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of development of the NetBSD Operating System. The very first commit to the NetBSD source tree (src/Makefile) was by Chris Demetriou on Friday 21 March, 1993. Parties are being held in various cities around the world, see the press release for more details. Happy 10th Birthday, NetBSD!

21 Feb 2003  »

18:31
NetBSD
Andrew Brown has committed changes to -current implementing a new ``topdown'' uvm. With these changes, the areas for heap growth and mmap(2)'ed allocations, which used to be separate, are now one and the same, allowing either one to grow much larger than before. As an example, on i386 it is now possible to mmap(2) over 2GB of memory! Furthermore, the work leading up to this has already dramatically reduced the number of entries in the kernel's map.

At the moment, this option is available for the i386, macppc, prep and the PowerPC OEA based ports, but particularly ports with small amounts of virtual memory such as the acorn26 benefit from these changes.

For more details, please see the thread starting with Andrew's posting to the current-users MailingList.

13 Feb 2003  »

15:00
NetBSD
Alistair Crooks has created the pkgsrc-1-6-1 branch from -current to correspond with the upcoming release of NetBSD 1.6.1. Like the previous pkgsrc-1-6 branch, this branch provides a stable, known working set of packages which will have only security and build fixes applied. It is intended for systems where stability is preferred over bleeding-edge packages, and also for slower systems which can find it difficult to keep up with the flux of pkgsrc-current.

A few highlights of this branch are:

To check out the branch with anoncvs, run

cvs checkout -rnetbsd-1-6-1 pkgsrc

See The NetBSD Packages Collection documentation for more information.

Please note that this branch is separate from the 1.6 pkgsrc branch, as there have been some large structural improvements since that time.

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