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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. NetBSD has OpenPAM now by TilJ · · Score: 4, Informative

    It seemed like a throwaway line in the status report, and didn't really have any details attached to it. 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.

    I found some information at a livejournal posting, but I haven't been able to dig much else up.

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    "The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth." -- Bene Gesserit Precept
  2. Re:pkgsrc by compass46 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Other way around, pkgsrc supports DragonFly. Just as pkgsrc supports FreeBSD but that doesn't imply FreeBSD supports pkgsrc.

    And someone mod the other reply to this up. Whoever modded it down is retarded.

  3. 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).

  4. Re:New logo... by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tux and Puffy are *mascots* and not *logos*. The new logo is just that, a logo. Logos are not mascots and mascots are not logos. Just because Linux and OpenBSD do not have logos does not mean NetBSD should not have one either.

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    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!