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NetBSD Status Report for Oct- Dec '04 Published

Posted by timothy on from the letter-from-summer-camp dept.

Enrique writes "The NetBSD Foundation has published its fourth quarterly status report, covering the months October through December of 2004. Among many other things, this status report covers the publication of the new NetBSD Logo, the new pkgsrc branch, the new NetBSD/iyonix port and of course the release of NetBSD 2.0."

4 of 27 comments (clear)

  1. pkgsrc by archen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    According to the report, pkgsrc is now supported in DragonflyBSD. So is DragonFly going to use pkgsrc, ports, or cook up their own solution? I'd guess that since DragonFly is free to be rather experimental that they'll try something new, but I'm sure they'll need to use something else in the mean time.

    1. Re:pkgsrc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Last time I checked, the Dragonfly folks were planning to cook up their own packaging system. It's sort of a necessity with the way their VFS system is going to work. I figure that they'll end up with something like ports+portupgrade (but smoother operating) with support for multiple versions of programs/libraries being installed at the same time.

    2. Re:pkgsrc by Homology · · Score: 4, Interesting
      In OpenBSD current there is (alot of) work to enhance the portsystem with a portupdate functionality as well, and hopefully this will be completed before release of OpenBSD 3.7. Looking forward to that functionality.

      As for DragonFly, it's my impression that they want to write their own, but for the moment they piggyback on FreeBSD ports system. I think that DragonFly rejected the other ports systems as inadequate for their needs (in an interview with Dillon).

  2. Re:NetBSD has OpenPAM now by Homology · · Score: 3, Interesting
    NetBSD getting PAM is big news though -- some of the flame wars between the BSDAuth folks and the PAM folks in the NetBSD community were legendary for their ability to burn unsuspecting posters.

    PAM has had a some exploits. The latest OpenSSH (portable, not OpenbSD) exploit was in the PAM code.