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  1. New NetBSD/amd64 Snapshot

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by timothy · from the runs-everywhere dept. · 25 comments
    fvdl writes "As the number of AMD64 users grows, new snapshots of NetBSD/amd64 will be made available on a regular basis, until the next NetBSD release (2.0) is out. NetBSD/amd64 is almost two years old by now, but did not have a formal release yet, since hardware was not publicly available at the time of the last major NetBSD release. The latest snapshot is available at ftp.netbsd.org. It is a fully-featured NetBSD port, made available in the form of a bootable ISO image."

  2. Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by CowboyNeal · from the getting-to-know dept. · 116 comments
    Gentu writes "The main commercial company behind NetBSD is Wasabi Systems. The company has contributed advances and big chunks of code to the open source project, while they do offer a boxed release of NetBSD. However, their main business for the company is the embedded market and NetBSD is marketed as an embedded OS. OSNews talked to the Vice President of Wasabi Systems, Jay Michaelson. Linux in the embedded market is also discussed."

  3. NetBSD Powered iSCSI Accesible Appliance Released

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by chrisd · from the wasabi-makes-fish-taste-good dept. · 16 comments
    hubertf writes "TeamASA and Wasabi Systems cooperated to bring out a new "Personal Internet Network Attached Storage/Server" which runs on a 733MHz XScale CPU, does LVD SCSI and Gbit Ethernet with AppleTalk, Samba and most interestingly iSCSI to access the system. And of course this runs on NetBSD! Check out the appliance's web page." Looks like a really nice box.

  4. NetBSD Ported to AMD x86-64 (Sledgehammer)

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the write-once-run-anywhere dept. · 117 comments
    fvdl writes: "Last week, a port of NetBSD to the x86-64 (tm) architecture was committed to the NetBSD CVS repository. The x86-64 is AMD's upcoming 64bit line of CPUs. For now, it is only known to work on the Virtutech simulator, since no x86-64 hardware is available yet. In this environment, it runs multi-user. NetBSD/x86_64 is the 44th architecture that NetBSD runs on (12 different families of CPUs). The porting was done by Frank van der Linden of Wasabi Systems, with kind support from AMD, who provided the simulator and fast machines on which ro run it. The Wasabi press release is here. For more information on the x86-64, see of course AMD's website and x86-64.org"

  5. NetBSD Ported to AMD x86-64 (Sledgehammer)

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the write-once-run-anywhere dept. · 117 comments
    fvdl writes: "Last week, a port of NetBSD to the x86-64 (tm) architecture was committed to the NetBSD CVS repository. The x86-64 is AMD's upcoming 64bit line of CPUs. For now, it is only known to work on the Virtutech simulator, since no x86-64 hardware is available yet. In this environment, it runs multi-user. NetBSD/x86_64 is the 44th architecture that NetBSD runs on (12 different families of CPUs). The porting was done by Frank van der Linden of Wasabi Systems, with kind support from AMD, who provided the simulator and fast machines on which ro run it. The Wasabi press release is here. For more information on the x86-64, see of course AMD's website and x86-64.org"

  6. NetBSD Ported to Motorola Sandpoint

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the can't-you-people-ever-be-happy dept. · 8 comments
    howardjp writes: "NetBSD has been ported to the Motorla Sandpoint, a reference PPC design board. Wasabi Systems did the port. I will not be happy until NetBSD runs on my Atari 1200XL."

  7. Tucows BSD Is Back

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the night-of-the-living-daemon dept. · 7 comments
    howardjp writes "Today, Feb. 7, Tucows announced they would bring back the BSD section. Apparently a number of users sent mail encouraging the Tucows/BSD group and with the help of both Wasabi Systems and BSDi, it will be back."

  8. plex86 ported to NetBSD/i386

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by Nik · from the they-should-call-it-multiplex dept. · 41 comments
    hubertf writes "plex86 is now works on a second Open Source operating system. So far plex86 only supported Linux as host platform, and thanks to Frank van der Linden of Wasabi Systems, it now also works on the i386 port of the NetBSD multi-platform operating system. Tested operating systems include FreeDOS beta 4, MS-DOS 6.22, Red Hat 6 Linux and NetBSD 1.5. See the NetBSD site for more information.

  9. NetBSD Support From Wasabi Systems, Inc.

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by Nik · from the live-from-the-Usenix-terminal-room dept. · 58 comments
    jmsohn wrote in with a link to a press release announcing the launch of Wasabi Systems, formed to provide a commercial channel for sales, support, and service for NetBSD. With me in the Usenix terminal room is Perry Metzger, NetBSD's release engineer, and CEO of the new company, to talk about the company's plans.

    N: How long have you been working on this?

    P: A couple of months now. Things have moved far faster than we expected. For years we've been hoping that someone would stand up and do this, and no one did. It's a shame that no one's stood up to provide sales and support. There's no central place to get customization done, which is important for some of the commercial users who are using NetBSD in embedded systems, companies like Geocast, or IBM's Network Computer.

    We're trying to be Cygnus of this space, rather than the RedHat.

    N: How big is the company at the moment?

    P: We're in the startup phase. We've got a few people who have already signed contracts, and a few people we're in negotiations with. The non-technical staff is relatively small at the moment, three to four people, the technical staff is larger, and growing pretty fast.

    N: So you're hiring now?

    P: We're very actively hiring. We're looking for developers, people to do support stuff for NetBSD using clients, infrastructure consulting for NetBSD using clients. We're tapping the NetBSD developer community right now, but we're looking for people who are good above everything else. Contact information is on the website, or just get in touch with me directly.

    N: Why Wasabi?

    P: It's a neat name. When all the bad names are already taken, why not use a good one? <laughs> We're a hot young company.

    N: Are you going to be selling NetBSD on CD?

    P: Yes. 1.4.3 on CD within a few weeks when the project releases it. 1.5 as well, which is expected at the end of September (when the RSA patent expires. . .)

    We'll be doing a multi-CD release, and probably a couple of different CD options depending on what people want. We have to release for 29 different architectures, which complicates things.

    N: How many NetBSD project members are involved in Wasabi?

    P: At the moment we have a couple of members from -core, and most of the people involved are developers. We also have a couple of non-NetBSD developers involved.

    N: If clients approach you for NetBSD development are you making sure that it's going to be released under the BSD license?

    P: Everything that we can we will. There will be instances where clients come to us for work that will be used in house, or is uninteresting. But we're unequivocably an open-source company, and we want to release virtually everything we do as open source.

    N: NetBSD is very community led. How is Wasabi going to be contributing back to the community?

    P: We're members of the community ourselves. It's in our interests to help out the community where possible. This might mean covering developer's conference fees, hardware costs, all sorts of things. Whatever we need to do to eliminate barriers to improving the system.

    N: Any plans for other NetBSD products?

    P: You've seen the beachballs? [ At the BSD BoF last night Perry and others were kicking around 300 or so Wasabi beachballs "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" ] I don't think that's a big revenue stream for us. But if people in the community want to buy that sort of stuff then we're happy to be the place they get it from, or to collaborate with other companies to make sure that there is somewhere they can get it from.

    N: Any plans to provide support or consulting for the other BSDs?

    P: Our area of expertise is NetBSD -- it's what we do best, it's what we know. But, if a customer came to us with interesting work involving another BSD we'd of course look at it. They're probably smartest hiring us for NetBSD stuff.

    N: Is this going to be a U.S. operation, or will you be working with NetBSD developers worldwide?

    P: We've already hired developers from outside of the U.S., who are staying where they are. We go where the talent is and where the customers are.

    N: Perry, thanks for your time.

  10. NetBSD Support From Wasabi Systems, Inc.

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by Nik · from the live-from-the-Usenix-terminal-room dept. · 58 comments
    jmsohn wrote in with a link to a press release announcing the launch of Wasabi Systems, formed to provide a commercial channel for sales, support, and service for NetBSD. With me in the Usenix terminal room is Perry Metzger, NetBSD's release engineer, and CEO of the new company, to talk about the company's plans.

    N: How long have you been working on this?

    P: A couple of months now. Things have moved far faster than we expected. For years we've been hoping that someone would stand up and do this, and no one did. It's a shame that no one's stood up to provide sales and support. There's no central place to get customization done, which is important for some of the commercial users who are using NetBSD in embedded systems, companies like Geocast, or IBM's Network Computer.

    We're trying to be Cygnus of this space, rather than the RedHat.

    N: How big is the company at the moment?

    P: We're in the startup phase. We've got a few people who have already signed contracts, and a few people we're in negotiations with. The non-technical staff is relatively small at the moment, three to four people, the technical staff is larger, and growing pretty fast.

    N: So you're hiring now?

    P: We're very actively hiring. We're looking for developers, people to do support stuff for NetBSD using clients, infrastructure consulting for NetBSD using clients. We're tapping the NetBSD developer community right now, but we're looking for people who are good above everything else. Contact information is on the website, or just get in touch with me directly.

    N: Why Wasabi?

    P: It's a neat name. When all the bad names are already taken, why not use a good one? <laughs> We're a hot young company.

    N: Are you going to be selling NetBSD on CD?

    P: Yes. 1.4.3 on CD within a few weeks when the project releases it. 1.5 as well, which is expected at the end of September (when the RSA patent expires. . .)

    We'll be doing a multi-CD release, and probably a couple of different CD options depending on what people want. We have to release for 29 different architectures, which complicates things.

    N: How many NetBSD project members are involved in Wasabi?

    P: At the moment we have a couple of members from -core, and most of the people involved are developers. We also have a couple of non-NetBSD developers involved.

    N: If clients approach you for NetBSD development are you making sure that it's going to be released under the BSD license?

    P: Everything that we can we will. There will be instances where clients come to us for work that will be used in house, or is uninteresting. But we're unequivocably an open-source company, and we want to release virtually everything we do as open source.

    N: NetBSD is very community led. How is Wasabi going to be contributing back to the community?

    P: We're members of the community ourselves. It's in our interests to help out the community where possible. This might mean covering developer's conference fees, hardware costs, all sorts of things. Whatever we need to do to eliminate barriers to improving the system.

    N: Any plans for other NetBSD products?

    P: You've seen the beachballs? [ At the BSD BoF last night Perry and others were kicking around 300 or so Wasabi beachballs "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" ] I don't think that's a big revenue stream for us. But if people in the community want to buy that sort of stuff then we're happy to be the place they get it from, or to collaborate with other companies to make sure that there is somewhere they can get it from.

    N: Any plans to provide support or consulting for the other BSDs?

    P: Our area of expertise is NetBSD -- it's what we do best, it's what we know. But, if a customer came to us with interesting work involving another BSD we'd of course look at it. They're probably smartest hiring us for NetBSD stuff.

    N: Is this going to be a U.S. operation, or will you be working with NetBSD developers worldwide?

    P: We've already hired developers from outside of the U.S., who are staying where they are. We go where the talent is and where the customers are.

    N: Perry, thanks for your time.

  11. NetBSD Support From Wasabi Systems, Inc.

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by Nik · from the live-from-the-Usenix-terminal-room dept. · 58 comments
    jmsohn wrote in with a link to a press release announcing the launch of Wasabi Systems, formed to provide a commercial channel for sales, support, and service for NetBSD. With me in the Usenix terminal room is Perry Metzger, NetBSD's release engineer, and CEO of the new company, to talk about the company's plans.

    N: How long have you been working on this?

    P: A couple of months now. Things have moved far faster than we expected. For years we've been hoping that someone would stand up and do this, and no one did. It's a shame that no one's stood up to provide sales and support. There's no central place to get customization done, which is important for some of the commercial users who are using NetBSD in embedded systems, companies like Geocast, or IBM's Network Computer.

    We're trying to be Cygnus of this space, rather than the RedHat.

    N: How big is the company at the moment?

    P: We're in the startup phase. We've got a few people who have already signed contracts, and a few people we're in negotiations with. The non-technical staff is relatively small at the moment, three to four people, the technical staff is larger, and growing pretty fast.

    N: So you're hiring now?

    P: We're very actively hiring. We're looking for developers, people to do support stuff for NetBSD using clients, infrastructure consulting for NetBSD using clients. We're tapping the NetBSD developer community right now, but we're looking for people who are good above everything else. Contact information is on the website, or just get in touch with me directly.

    N: Why Wasabi?

    P: It's a neat name. When all the bad names are already taken, why not use a good one? <laughs> We're a hot young company.

    N: Are you going to be selling NetBSD on CD?

    P: Yes. 1.4.3 on CD within a few weeks when the project releases it. 1.5 as well, which is expected at the end of September (when the RSA patent expires. . .)

    We'll be doing a multi-CD release, and probably a couple of different CD options depending on what people want. We have to release for 29 different architectures, which complicates things.

    N: How many NetBSD project members are involved in Wasabi?

    P: At the moment we have a couple of members from -core, and most of the people involved are developers. We also have a couple of non-NetBSD developers involved.

    N: If clients approach you for NetBSD development are you making sure that it's going to be released under the BSD license?

    P: Everything that we can we will. There will be instances where clients come to us for work that will be used in house, or is uninteresting. But we're unequivocably an open-source company, and we want to release virtually everything we do as open source.

    N: NetBSD is very community led. How is Wasabi going to be contributing back to the community?

    P: We're members of the community ourselves. It's in our interests to help out the community where possible. This might mean covering developer's conference fees, hardware costs, all sorts of things. Whatever we need to do to eliminate barriers to improving the system.

    N: Any plans for other NetBSD products?

    P: You've seen the beachballs? [ At the BSD BoF last night Perry and others were kicking around 300 or so Wasabi beachballs "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" ] I don't think that's a big revenue stream for us. But if people in the community want to buy that sort of stuff then we're happy to be the place they get it from, or to collaborate with other companies to make sure that there is somewhere they can get it from.

    N: Any plans to provide support or consulting for the other BSDs?

    P: Our area of expertise is NetBSD -- it's what we do best, it's what we know. But, if a customer came to us with interesting work involving another BSD we'd of course look at it. They're probably smartest hiring us for NetBSD stuff.

    N: Is this going to be a U.S. operation, or will you be working with NetBSD developers worldwide?

    P: We've already hired developers from outside of the U.S., who are staying where they are. We go where the talent is and where the customers are.

    N: Perry, thanks for your time.

  12. NetBSD Support From Wasabi Systems, Inc.

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by Nik · from the live-from-the-Usenix-terminal-room dept. · 58 comments
    jmsohn wrote in with a link to a press release announcing the launch of Wasabi Systems, formed to provide a commercial channel for sales, support, and service for NetBSD. With me in the Usenix terminal room is Perry Metzger, NetBSD's release engineer, and CEO of the new company, to talk about the company's plans.

    N: How long have you been working on this?

    P: A couple of months now. Things have moved far faster than we expected. For years we've been hoping that someone would stand up and do this, and no one did. It's a shame that no one's stood up to provide sales and support. There's no central place to get customization done, which is important for some of the commercial users who are using NetBSD in embedded systems, companies like Geocast, or IBM's Network Computer.

    We're trying to be Cygnus of this space, rather than the RedHat.

    N: How big is the company at the moment?

    P: We're in the startup phase. We've got a few people who have already signed contracts, and a few people we're in negotiations with. The non-technical staff is relatively small at the moment, three to four people, the technical staff is larger, and growing pretty fast.

    N: So you're hiring now?

    P: We're very actively hiring. We're looking for developers, people to do support stuff for NetBSD using clients, infrastructure consulting for NetBSD using clients. We're tapping the NetBSD developer community right now, but we're looking for people who are good above everything else. Contact information is on the website, or just get in touch with me directly.

    N: Why Wasabi?

    P: It's a neat name. When all the bad names are already taken, why not use a good one? <laughs> We're a hot young company.

    N: Are you going to be selling NetBSD on CD?

    P: Yes. 1.4.3 on CD within a few weeks when the project releases it. 1.5 as well, which is expected at the end of September (when the RSA patent expires. . .)

    We'll be doing a multi-CD release, and probably a couple of different CD options depending on what people want. We have to release for 29 different architectures, which complicates things.

    N: How many NetBSD project members are involved in Wasabi?

    P: At the moment we have a couple of members from -core, and most of the people involved are developers. We also have a couple of non-NetBSD developers involved.

    N: If clients approach you for NetBSD development are you making sure that it's going to be released under the BSD license?

    P: Everything that we can we will. There will be instances where clients come to us for work that will be used in house, or is uninteresting. But we're unequivocably an open-source company, and we want to release virtually everything we do as open source.

    N: NetBSD is very community led. How is Wasabi going to be contributing back to the community?

    P: We're members of the community ourselves. It's in our interests to help out the community where possible. This might mean covering developer's conference fees, hardware costs, all sorts of things. Whatever we need to do to eliminate barriers to improving the system.

    N: Any plans for other NetBSD products?

    P: You've seen the beachballs? [ At the BSD BoF last night Perry and others were kicking around 300 or so Wasabi beachballs "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" ] I don't think that's a big revenue stream for us. But if people in the community want to buy that sort of stuff then we're happy to be the place they get it from, or to collaborate with other companies to make sure that there is somewhere they can get it from.

    N: Any plans to provide support or consulting for the other BSDs?

    P: Our area of expertise is NetBSD -- it's what we do best, it's what we know. But, if a customer came to us with interesting work involving another BSD we'd of course look at it. They're probably smartest hiring us for NetBSD stuff.

    N: Is this going to be a U.S. operation, or will you be working with NetBSD developers worldwide?

    P: We've already hired developers from outside of the U.S., who are staying where they are. We go where the talent is and where the customers are.

    N: Perry, thanks for your time.

  13. NetBSD Support From Wasabi Systems, Inc.

    Bsd · Announcements · · posted by Nik · from the live-from-the-Usenix-terminal-room dept. · 58 comments
    jmsohn wrote in with a link to a press release announcing the launch of Wasabi Systems, formed to provide a commercial channel for sales, support, and service for NetBSD. With me in the Usenix terminal room is Perry Metzger, NetBSD's release engineer, and CEO of the new company, to talk about the company's plans.

    N: How long have you been working on this?

    P: A couple of months now. Things have moved far faster than we expected. For years we've been hoping that someone would stand up and do this, and no one did. It's a shame that no one's stood up to provide sales and support. There's no central place to get customization done, which is important for some of the commercial users who are using NetBSD in embedded systems, companies like Geocast, or IBM's Network Computer.

    We're trying to be Cygnus of this space, rather than the RedHat.

    N: How big is the company at the moment?

    P: We're in the startup phase. We've got a few people who have already signed contracts, and a few people we're in negotiations with. The non-technical staff is relatively small at the moment, three to four people, the technical staff is larger, and growing pretty fast.

    N: So you're hiring now?

    P: We're very actively hiring. We're looking for developers, people to do support stuff for NetBSD using clients, infrastructure consulting for NetBSD using clients. We're tapping the NetBSD developer community right now, but we're looking for people who are good above everything else. Contact information is on the website, or just get in touch with me directly.

    N: Why Wasabi?

    P: It's a neat name. When all the bad names are already taken, why not use a good one? <laughs> We're a hot young company.

    N: Are you going to be selling NetBSD on CD?

    P: Yes. 1.4.3 on CD within a few weeks when the project releases it. 1.5 as well, which is expected at the end of September (when the RSA patent expires. . .)

    We'll be doing a multi-CD release, and probably a couple of different CD options depending on what people want. We have to release for 29 different architectures, which complicates things.

    N: How many NetBSD project members are involved in Wasabi?

    P: At the moment we have a couple of members from -core, and most of the people involved are developers. We also have a couple of non-NetBSD developers involved.

    N: If clients approach you for NetBSD development are you making sure that it's going to be released under the BSD license?

    P: Everything that we can we will. There will be instances where clients come to us for work that will be used in house, or is uninteresting. But we're unequivocably an open-source company, and we want to release virtually everything we do as open source.

    N: NetBSD is very community led. How is Wasabi going to be contributing back to the community?

    P: We're members of the community ourselves. It's in our interests to help out the community where possible. This might mean covering developer's conference fees, hardware costs, all sorts of things. Whatever we need to do to eliminate barriers to improving the system.

    N: Any plans for other NetBSD products?

    P: You've seen the beachballs? [ At the BSD BoF last night Perry and others were kicking around 300 or so Wasabi beachballs "NetBSD support: it's not hot air anymore" ] I don't think that's a big revenue stream for us. But if people in the community want to buy that sort of stuff then we're happy to be the place they get it from, or to collaborate with other companies to make sure that there is somewhere they can get it from.

    N: Any plans to provide support or consulting for the other BSDs?

    P: Our area of expertise is NetBSD -- it's what we do best, it's what we know. But, if a customer came to us with interesting work involving another BSD we'd of course look at it. They're probably smartest hiring us for NetBSD stuff.

    N: Is this going to be a U.S. operation, or will you be working with NetBSD developers worldwide?

    P: We've already hired developers from outside of the U.S., who are staying where they are. We go where the talent is and where the customers are.

    N: Perry, thanks for your time.