Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

3rd Quarterly NetBSD Status Report Published

Posted by timothy on from the behind-the-counter dept.

jschauma writes "The third quarterly NetBSD status report has been published, covering the months July through September of 2004. Among many other things, this status report covers NetBSD version numbering scheme changes and of the upcoming release of NetBSD 2.0."

26 comments

  1. The logo? by i_c_andrade · · Score: 1

    I am eager to see the new logo, I hope it is remotely cool.

    1. Re:The logo? by hawicz · · Score: 5, Informative

      eh, it's ok. (I've seen it, since I'm a NetBSD developer). The thing to remember is that we were not looking for a mascot so it isn't the same anthropomorphic style as other groups. (i.e. the linux penguin, or the openbsd blowfish)

    2. Re:The logo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can bet that it won't be as cool as the present one.

    3. Re:The logo? by repruhsent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The logo is going to be the FreeBSD devil on the ground with his tongue hanging out. Why, you ask? Simple - because BSD IS DYING.

    4. Re:The logo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I liked the "Iwo Jima" logo. Updating that logo would have been fine by me.

  2. BSDs by brilinux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NetBSD is the open flavour of the free BSDs that I have not tried out. I used FreeBSD quite a bit, and liked it, and I am using OpenBSD on my webserver, primarily because it has native AFS support (I am at CMU), and it does not seem as easy to upgrade or get up to date ports as FreeBSD. I am wondering how NetBSD is. I know the guy who is trying to port AFS to NetBSD and Kernel 2.6 in Linux, and he said that they are making progress. Is there a reason, other than curiosity, to use it? (The curiosity may win in the end anyway, I go through OSes pretty fast.) It seems like an interesting concept.

    1. Re:BSDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
      Is there a reason, other than curiosity, to use it?

      If you have a lot of different computers (or other items with programmable hardware), with different architectures, and want to run one OS on most or all of them, then NetBSD is a solution to consider.

      If you just have a bunch of IBM PC Compatible (x86) boxes of various ages, then you might as well stick with FreeBSD. But if you've also got an old VAX workstation, a Morotorola 68k SBC, and a Sun 3/80, then NetBSD is the way to go.

      Another reason for you to consider, is if you could be of assistance testing the AFS port.

      Of course curiosity is a valid reason, too.

    2. Re:BSDs by epseps · · Score: 1

      NetBSD on x86 is good for cross compiling for other architectures.

      pckgsrc is the equivelant of the ports directory under FreeBSD and is just as easy to keep up to date with.

      A weakness of NetBSD is the amount of configuration needed to get it to work the way you want it too work, but I view this as a strength as well (I advise people wanting to learn Unix to install it for this reason).

      Asside from those two reasons to isntall it on x86 the other good one is just curiousity. A person might end up finding a non-curiousity reason to use it or be convinced that their other *BSD or Linux choice was the right one.

    3. Re:BSDs by epseps · · Score: 2, Informative

      1.6.2 works great on SPARC II (except the Mach64 driver doesn't work for Ultra5). I just installed it this past week.

  3. Internet2 Land Speed World Record by Homology · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Once again a *BSD shows very publically that the *BSD model of development pays off :

    NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

  4. HEY GUYS, NEED SOME HELP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hi I bought this book at a garage sale with something-BSD on a free CD with it. So I wiped out Gobolinux and gave it a shot.

    I managed to install something, but I need to know how to find a .exe file to run. What is the BSD equivalent of "dir"? Does it have this technology? I'd look at the book but some previous user has scribbled all over the pages in black crayon.

    Thanks in advance.

  5. Numbering Scheme by mvdw · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the article: The major version number will from now on be used to indicate a major release and the minor version number to indicate a minor release.

    What the hell were they using these numbers for preiously??

    1. Re:Numbering Scheme by Brandybuck · · Score: 1

      Ummm... just counting? That they said this implies that they were NOT using major numbers to mark a major release.

      --
      Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
    2. Re:Numbering Scheme by abs0 · · Score: 4, Informative

      The minor number was used to indicate a new release:
      1.0 -> 1.6, and the tiny number for a minor release
      1.6 -> 1.6.1 -> 1.6.2

    3. Re:Numbering Scheme by kivaapina · · Score: 4, Informative

      The major version number used to be 1 and the minor number used to indicate a major release. For example, 1.5 and 1.6 were major releases. There was also a third number that was used for fixing bugs, like service packs, 1.6.2 for example.

    4. Re:Numbering Scheme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Too bad, I'm a big fan of non-inflated version numbers. I like the fact that NetBSD has been around for 10 years and is still at version 1.6.2 :)

  6. Report has bad format, this script fixes this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    #! /bin/sh
    # this script is released under the FreeBSD license

    echo *BSD status report:
    echo DEAD, corpse already rotting

  7. WTF??? by Geminus · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the hell is going on with all the BSD postings on /.? Can someone please wake up the editors and tell them to get some other intelligent content for today?

    1. Re:WTF??? by Burb · · Score: 1

      What exactly is your problem? The *BSD postings may not be much more than notifications of beta releases but that's pretty much par for the course here.

      --

    2. Re:WTF??? by R.Caley · · Score: 1
      What the hell is going on with all the BSD postings on /.?

      WHat, `all' two of them?

      --
      _O_
      .|<       The named which can be named is not the true named
    3. Re:WTF??? by festers · · Score: 1

      No, there was a problem a few minutes ago, or at least what *looked* like a problem, when all of the front page stories where *BSD stories. For a second I thought it was a stupid joke, then I refreshed the front page and things went back to normal. Oh well, I guess they jumped the gun on the April 1 stuff...

      --


      -------
      "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief."
    4. Re:WTF??? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Some kind of bug has obviously thrust the bsd.slashdot.org page into the generic slashdot.org front page. Unless you're colorblind, you certainly haven't added to the intelligent content.

      FWIW, I'd like to see a downtime.slashdot.org page, with stories posted about cracks, bugs and outages at good ol' Slashdot itself. The slashdot.org topic hasn't carried one since 4/16/04, but the past few days have been pretty haggard.

      --

      --
      make install -not war

    5. Re:WTF??? by mark-t · · Score: 1
      here here here here here here and here

      That's seven, not two. And all of them are on the front-page as of my posting this.

      --
      File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
    6. Re:WTF??? by mark-t · · Score: 1
      And now it's all back to normal... most peculiar.

      I just noticed that the oldest of those stories is from 2 weeks ago... (and just for the record, I wasn't on bsd.slashdot.org)

      --
      File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
    7. Re:WTF??? by R.Caley · · Score: 2, Funny
      That's seven,

      Over 9 days. Hardly a flood.

      And all of them are on the front-page as of my posting this.

      Shock! The /. software fucked up. Imagine how amazed we all are that there are bugs in software. Oh me, oh my. What has the world come to! Next thing you know there will be bugs in Windows's image handling, and then where will we be!

      --
      _O_
      .|<       The named which can be named is not the true named
  8. New NetBSD logo thanks to google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://www.netbsd.org/~hubertf/newlogo.png :D