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USB v2.0 Support Added To NetBSD

Posted by timothy on from the universality-indeed dept.

hubertf writes: "There's news over at the NetBSD web site that Lennart Augustsson has added support for USB v2.0 devices into NetBSD-current. The new ehci driver is still in development but is in a working state for some mass storage devices, such as CD-RW drives. USB v2.0 offers a vast speed improvement (480Mb/s instead of 12Mb/s) over the original USB specification, and retains a good level of compatibility. For more details, see Lennart's announcement on current-users@netbsd.org."

13 comments

  1. osx ownz you... by heldlikesound · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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    1. Re:osx ownz you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not until I can run it on my IIci, punk.

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  2. *BSD is dying... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know how it goes...

  3. Anonymous Cowards are dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is how it goes.

  4. THIS STORY SUCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    1. Re:THIS STORY SUCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      To be a "gay [...] motherfucker" you would have to be female. This contradicts your previous statement about slashdot readers ;)

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  5. *BSD is the way, the truth, and the light by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My BSD Experience is as follows.. NetBSD and OpenBSD on a Macintosh IIci, FreeBSD 4 on i386, FreeBSD 4 on Alpha, and MacOS X on an iBook. I must say that my favorite OS's are BSD and Solaris. Seems BSD people take *stablilty* serously.... not like Linux changing the entire damned VM subsystem in the middle of kernel 2.4... something that should never, never have been tolerated in a real production environment (at work, I have 288 Solaris and HP-UX boxen in production). I guess Linux is a toy in this respect... written and played with by the people who use it.

  6. USB 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess if they can keep the CPU suckage to a minimum at full speed, USB 2.0 might make an interesting networking system.

  7. *BSD got me laid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's really true!

    One day I was browsing the personals with my Colecovision ADAM fully loaded with NetBSD. One afternoon, after I finished porting ruby to the PDP-11, I was browsing the personals with lynx.

    I found a hot chick who's only computer was a NeXT cube with that horrible operating system. I went over to her place and put NetBSD on the cube. That got her all hot & bothered, so I put away my cd-case and lubed up all of her serial I/O ports. It was great.

    And talk about stability. While all this was going on, my online store sold $32767 worth of stuff. The colecovision can handle Apache and MySQL with no problems at all, not even a single buffer overflow.

    I am a proud Canadian and a proud *BSD user.

    1. Re:*BSD got me laid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That got her all hot & bothered, so I put away my cd-case and lubed up all of her serial I/O ports.

      I like girls that are into parallel I/O port action.

    2. Re:*BSD got me laid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hot damn! Where can you get the NetBSD port for an ADAM? Unix running on only 80k of memory and a cheesy cassette tape drive? Wahoo!