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NetBSD Q3/Q4 Status Report Published

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-all-those-of-you-waiting-with-baited-breath dept.

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."

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  1. The biggest news from the report by aliscool · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is the port to a toaster

    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.htm .

    Funny as hell

  2. Get it right by mpeg4codec · · Score: 1, Informative

    Bated breath, goddammit.

  3. Bated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    > for-all-those-of-you-waiting-with-baited-breath

    FYI: The spelling is bated.

  4. Mac OS X by christurkel · · Score: 2, Informative

    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/
  5. Re:Difference Net, Open, and Free BSD = ? by Ulrich+Hobelmann · · Score: 4, Informative

    In 10 words? Sorry, no.

    FreeBSD and its fork Dragonfly focus mainly on high-performance production servers, a little like Linux.

    OpenBSD focuses on the best-ever security on earth. This also includes clean code and good documentation (though even FreeBSD is quite good, IMHO compared to Linux/GNU).

    NetBSD focuses on exceptionally clean code/architecture, excellent documentation, but also on interesting features, and of course awesome portability. This includes having very clearly-written, modular drivers, where other systems sometimes only have drivers for, say, a specific device when it's behind a specific bus, but not in general...

    I like NetBSD, because it's fast enough IMHO, and very clean and well documented. If you want maximum performance, and maybe more multimedia drivers, get FreeBSD; if you're paranoid, use OpenBSD.