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NetBSD Packages Collection Releases A New Branch

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-giant-underground-fungus dept.

jschauma writes "On behalf of the pkgsrc team, Alistair Crooks announced today that a new pkgsrc-2004Q1 branch of the NetBSD Packages Collection was created last night, and the freeze on committing to the pkgsrc trunk is now over. This branch, which includes some 4518 actively-maintained and supported packages, introduces a self-hosted pkgsrc infrstructure as part of the ever growing support of even more operating systems as well as a number of other goodies. Please see Alistair's message to the netbsd-announce mailing list for details."

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  1. Filthy cowardss stole our FROSTY PISS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wantss the FROSTY PISS, we do! Must gets uss that preciouss FROSTY PISS!

  2. who was first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which one died first Open, Net or Free ?

    1. Re:who was first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Have you stopped beating your penguin?

  3. where to provide information about BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Truth is a virus, and judging by the posts in this thread, the truth about BSD has finally reached everyone in slashdot community. Now go spread the truth in these BIGGER BSD heretic groups:

    FreeBSD

    NetBSD

    OpenBSD

    1. Re:where to provide information about BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yup, the great thing about the high class of BSD zealots there is, they always bite.

  4. Linux and the corporate desktop user. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    'All the *BSD is dying posts are contained in this one post'

    Thankyou for merging these posts into a coherent and well thought out argument for the adoption of Linux in the corporate server and home desktop markets.

    Slashdots reputation and continuing value as a source of relevent information and its unbiased support for all things open source are an inspiration to me. - Mr KnightCap.

  5. South Park by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Remember the episode when Kenny was zombified ?
    His dead corpse dropped his arm in front of an old wonman who called it cute.
    I suppose the same thing happend here.
    Dead corpses tend to "branch" bits out.

  6. Re:tired of bsd trolls :-( by HitScan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Slashdot has to post BSD stories once in a while so they can act like a sponge for the retards to ruin and keep them from ruining all the other stories. The comments are useless on any BSD story, due to retard concentration. Allowing Anonymous posts doesn't help anything.

    --
    HitScan
  7. A clue for the "BSD is dying" trolls. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    From Improving
    Passive Packet Capture: Beyond Device Polling.

    "Linux, a very popular OS used for running network appliances,
    performs very poorly with respect to other OSs used in the same
    test"         (FreeBSD and Win2k).

    "The Linux kernel module is almost as fast as the userspace
    FreeBSD application".

    Percentage of packets captured (in user space), using device polling, at
    80,000 packets per second? Linux 5.6%, FreeBSD 99.9%. Linux manages
    99.5% only using a kernel module.

    SO LINUX MUST GO TO KERNEL SPACE TO ALMOST BE AS FAST AS FREEBSD
    WITHIN USER SPACE!

    Maybe if you BSD is dying trolls stopped crapping on here about BSD
    dying and instead actually learned a language apt for your OS of choice,
    you might actually be able to bring Linux up to "dead status" with the
    BSD's.

    But wait, it gets worse! While trying to capture packets from a
    DoS application, Linux could only manage capture rates of 0.8% in user
    space and 9.7% in kernel space, while FreeBSD managed 74.7% in user
    space!

    "FreeBSD performs much better than Linux"

    "it is obvious that a vanilla FreeBSD systems is much more
    efficient than a vanilla Linux system when used for packet
    capture."