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Second NetBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2004

Posted by timothy on from the now-runs-on-matcheads-and-twine dept.

Daniel de Kok writes "Jan Schaumann announced that the second NetBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2004 is now available online. This report covers the major recent developments within the NetBSD project during April, May and June."

24 comments

  1. netBSD logo by crackshoe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    how long has this logo been in the running? they manage to mention it constantly, but never actually give any information on it. just strikes me as a bit odd.

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    1. Re:netBSD logo by chaos_echo · · Score: 5, Informative
      how long has this logo been in the running? they manage to mention it constantly, but never actually give any information on it. just strikes me as a bit odd.

      They started it in January, and it closed at the end of February. It was announced on at least their advocacy mailing list, and was on their news section on the front page of NetBSD.org at the time. They've been choosing a winner since then.

      Mailing list announcement
      NetBSD news

    2. Re:netBSD logo by Burb · · Score: 3, Funny

      According to TFA which you might possibly have bothered to R, "earlier this year".

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    3. Re:netBSD logo by obirt · · Score: 1

      There seems to be some trouble at Verio or ISC with the main NetBSD site. I've had no trouble getting to it through Pair.com's mirror www3.us.netbsd.org.

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  2. Re:It is official! by vijaya_chandra · · Score: 2, Funny

    And stuff! But you know they're lying, judging by the number of Slashdot posts on this thread...

    Hope you won't go by the hits on /. and start claiming everyone in the world gets on to /. daily

  3. Re:Developer laments: What Killed FreeBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Good News Everyone!
    Mike Smith now works for Apple, who's OS is based on BSD.
    He's back to writing BSD code, just for a different project.
    Check it out: www.lemis.com/~grog/msmr.html
    and at: daemonnews, under "BSD at Apple"

  4. Re:*BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good News Everyone!
    Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
    According to an Inernetnews article, Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
    There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
    You can read more about FreeBSD here

    If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DragonflyBSD
    Enjoy!

  5. A Good Feature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Xpkgwedge, not a ``real'' program in the traditional sense, is a hack that allows users to compile X11 pkgs from pkgsrc and install them outside of the X11 tree - even if they use imake - by using pkgxmkmf.

    Nice! Anything that keeps binary packages separate on the installed system is a good thing. I'd like to see what would happen if this was carried out even further. NetBSD runs on a lot of architectures, some of which are infeasible to compile on. If I acquired a toaster to run NetBSD on, I'd probably also use NetBSD on another box. I'd like to keep the systems mirrored under the same system, but separated by system type. Mounting the actual directories under the standard FHS using loop devices would be keen, if maybe more complicated than necessary. It might ease the updating of different systems.

  6. Perhaps OT... by pkplex · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was being nasty to an i386 netbsd 2.0F box the other night, by pulling out the ide cable to its hdd while it was up and running :)

    Netbsd then put up some green text, with a few details and a mention of the hdd timing out. After I plugged the hdd back in, it carried on without any problems.

    I done it a few times, and even pulled the cable out during a find /, and it did not die :)

    The only way I manged to get it to crash was to unplug the ide cable and put it into another unrelated hdd... which made it go into ddb mode :)

    Pretty damn stable IMO :)

    1. Re:Perhaps OT... by agent+dero · · Score: 2, Funny

      You sir, are insane.

      That's about all I have to say about that

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    2. Re:Perhaps OT... by Orick · · Score: 1

      That's awesome!

      Now, to go test NetBSD against power interruptions and see how it handles having random internal power plugs pulled....

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