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NetBSD Q3/Q4 Status Report Published
Anonymous Reader writes "The NetBSD Foundation published its first quarterly status report in 2006, covering the months July though December of 2005. Among many other things, this status report includes the release of both NetBSD 2.1 and NetBSD 3.0, a summary of the NetBSD Project's participation in Google's Summer of Code and the release of two stable pkgsrc branches."
Is the port to a toaster
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It has long been regarded that the UNIX-like OS NetBSD is portable to every type of machine except perhaps your kitchen toaster. Just in time for the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco in August 2005, Technologic Systems, however, has conquered this last frontier. Using one of its rugged embedded TS-7200 single-board computers housed inside the empty space of a standard 2 slice toaster, Technologic Systems has designed a functional NetBSD controlled toaster. You can find more information on the NetBSD toaster at http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.ht
Funny as hell
Bated breath, goddammit.
Contrary to what certain low-moderated posts say, this article is not a dupe.
We got Q3/Q4 reports from both Free and NetBSD.
I somehow predict a yet another article soon...
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
It was great of them to show where the money went. I would also like to see some sort of statement to see how their finances are. It could actually increase donations if folks were able to see how much a shoe-string operation they are.
Oops. Here is the actual report.
> for-all-those-of-you-waiting-with-baited-breath
FYI: The spelling is bated.
For a non BSD type could some one explain the USER difference in Net, Open and Free BSD in 10 word or less.
Thanks
Looks like the Mac OS X port needs some updating. It still requires a UFS disk image, even though HFS+ can be made case sensitive and the instructions are only updated to Mac OS X 10.2 (!). Someone needs to update the port install process and test it on newer systems.
CDE open sourced! https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
...despite their relatively small developer and user community.
The Q3/4 status report indicates what seems to be the modus operandi for the NetBSD team: consistent incremental gains.
I have an immense amount of respect for the NetBSD project. OpenBSD drives the BSDs (and Linux) to be more secure. FreeBSD traditionally has shown us what a great administrative user experience should be like. NetBSD continues to show us the way with respect to proper system architecture.
For example, NetBSD and FreeBSD (and OpenBSD?) natively support the same wireless hardware that Linux does. The difference? I can configure WEP and/or WPA through the exact same ifconfig that I use to configure a wired ethernet interface. No madwifi drivers. No 'download' wpa_supplicant. No difference that I'm setting up "different" network hardware. It's all just network hardware.
In my opinion Linux's weakest point is its kernel. The userland is great for the most part, but the kernel and the parts of the userland that deal directly with the kernel seem to be its major flaw. To follow the networking example: because the underlying wireless system is so fragmentary in Linux, NetworkManager (a good attempt at a friendly gui network profile configurator) feels like a bit of a bubblegum and bailing wire solution. This isn't NetworkManager's fault, it's Linux's for not providing a consistent system API for wireless. In NetBSD (FreeBSD & OpenBSD?) this isn't the case.
Alas, Linux (and it's collection of cool features like boot splash screens, polished user interfaces and installers, good binary OpenGL video drivers, great hardware detection utilities, commercial support on the server side, native Sun Java support, etc.) enjoys ubiquity while well architected systems like NetBSD languish in relative obscurity.
The cool Linux features often feel hackish (have you ever built an isolinux splash screen? NetBSD has always struck me as a natural choice for building a user-oriented/workstation distribution. Some of the little features are missing in NetBSD, but they could be added easily by a team focused on such a task. If a Mark Shuttleworth style billionaire pulled an Ubuntu with NetBSD, I think the world would generally be a better place.
-Peter
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Has there been any work on EHCI USB controllers, in combo with Mass Storage Devices... Last time I tried NetBSD it was a sad state in that aspect (the rest of the system completely rocked though) Basically, iPod Minis wont work if you have that combination (atleast USB2 that is) I was kind of shocked when I was trying to get support and the answer was "Buy a firewire card" right...cause thats not exactly a suitable solution considering how popular EHCI / Mass storage is. Id love to check it out again, is there any recent livecds available?
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
Also, FreeBSD released their status report for the forth quarter of 2005 yesterday.
2 005-dec-2005.html
http://www.ch.freebsd.org/news/status/report-oct-
You actually do need it, even on NetBSD, if you want to use WPA. I believe that's to keep the complexity of the WPA protocol out of the kernel. Of course, one you have the connection to the wireless network, then the rest of the configuration uses ifconfig, just like any other interface.
I'm just now giving NetBSD a serious try. I half-heartedly installed it on one of my little-used machines some time ago (1.6.1 iirc), but didn't really spend a lot of time with it. My main workstation is Fbsd 6.0, but i'm having an issue with a series of bugs or quirks in sysinstall and glibs in the ports collection. Maybe I'm just thick or something, but after a couple of months of googling, mopish hacks and/or otherwise trying to resolve these I'm running out of motivation. (There are open bug reports on most of these issues but they don't affect everyone so they're not being followed up on. Fbsd devels are busy with more important things, and I appreciate that).
So for now I've decided to upgrade that little 1.6.1 machine to 3.0 and try that out for awhile. Take a break from my issues above. So far I like it. I had the assumption that nbsd would be "all business no fun" (like obsd) but I'm pleasantly surprised. pkgsrc seems no less comprehensive than FreeBSD's ports selection (well duh), or at least I'm finding all the stuff that -I- use in there.
I still feel like I'm running away from my problems but at the moment nbsd seems like a nice umbrella to stand under for the time being.
do() || do_not();
2 whole hours this has been up and no "netcraft has confirmed that BSD is dying" posts.
Why isn't there one on the left anymore? Is it because it may be low traffic compared to the other sections? Taco is going to phase this section out?
I've had to explicitly add it as a viewable section to the right in my logged in mode.
I somehow predict a yet another article soon...
Nope, OpenBSD marches to the beat of a different drummer. But if there were, it would be something like this:
-Sold Fewer CDs, please buy one, it keeps us hacking
-Had a great Hackathon in Italy
-Our Software runs more good wireless hardware, UNENCUMBERED!
-If we like it and program it, and you like it, that's great
I was thinking some kind of port of Quake 3 and Quake 4 had come about! Now that would be a reason to switch from Ubuntu to NetBSD.
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When is NetBSD going to incorporate support for the SUS3 asynchrouse I/O and real-time signals APIs? I believe FreeBSD recently added these. Anyone know?