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NetBSD Packages Collection Up To 3525 Packages

Posted by timothy on from the it's-not-likely-to-go-down dept.

Dan writes "NetBSD's Alistair Crooks says that by his calculations, at the end of February 2003, there were 3525 packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 3461 the previous month, a rise of 64. The Package of the Month award goes to pkgdepgraph (yet again), nominated by Andrew Brown (yet again)."

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  1. Re:Is this really "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matt by ComputerSlicer23 · · Score: 1, Informative
    This is either the second or third time it's been posted, as a monthly statistic. It's just odd. I find a lot of the BSD stories interesting. When OpenBSD posts a new 3.X version that had the GCC patches for helping to detect and stop stack overflow attacks, or when the big packet filter fiasco happened, those are interesting stories that involved something there was to discuss. When NetBSD finally gets ported to the handheld abacus that Sir Issac Newton used (I made that up). When NetBSD has a new stable release. This is basically saying NetBSD is being maintained... I don't find that shocking, or news worthy in any way shape of form. It was good a story first time or two. If they posted about the package of the month (especially, if 3 of them in 3 months, instead of two).

    One example story was here: Stats for Feb

    Posted by timothy, submitted by Dan, with a link to bsdforums.

    Here is another story: Stats for January

    Look at that posted by timothy, submitted by Dan with a link to bsdforums.

    Like I said, I didn't mind the first or second time it was posted, but it seems silly to post them on a monthly basis. I suppose I can start submitting the number of LOC a base Linux kernel has.

    There are lots of interesting stories about BSD, this isn't one of them.

    I'd rather see them post interesting things about BSD, I'm sure they are out there, this isn't one of them. Statistical updates about NetBSD that consist of a single number seem dull to me. If they had a list of interesting packages, rather then a list of 64 packages of which there are 3 or 4 sets of 6 inter-related packages, so the number isn't particularly meaningful anyways...

    Kirby

  2. Most portable package system ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    All you guys seem to fail to catch one important fact: NetBSD pkgsrc does not support only NetBSD itself, but also many other operating systems, including FreeBSD, Darwin, Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc. This is another place where portability and clean design of NetBSD shines.