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First NetBSD Bugathon a Success

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-course-it-runs-over-bugs dept.

Daniel de Kok writes "Last weekend the first NetBSD Bugathon weekend was organized by Elad Efrat to handle as many open PRs (problem reports) as possible in a weekend, checking and fixing the bugs that were reported. Although the first Bugathon was not announced widely, it was a success: about 30 developers and 20 users closed around 270 PRs, bringing the number of open PRs down from 4200 to less than 4000. The next Bugathon will take place on 7-8 October, and NetBSD users and developers are invited to help fixing bugs and handling PRs."

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  1. Impressive by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thats not bad for 30 devs and 8 hours. Not bad at all.

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  2. Re:Great...how about running it on another arch? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have you tried OpenBSD? I know it's had a lot of work done on the VAX port recently, including adding support for some VAXstation framebuffers (this is only in -CURRENT at the moment, but will be included with OpenBSD 4.0, due in a month or so).

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  3. Re:Why NetBSD? by LandruBek · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've not looked at the codebase, but the hearsay is that NetBSD has cleaner, nicer code than the other BSDs, and because of that it is supposedly more portable than FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
    HTH.

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  4. Re:Why NetBSD? by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Alot of FreeBSD users such as myself switched to Linux or NetBSD after the 5.x fiasco. All the recent benchmarks put NetBSD higher performance wise than Freebsd. Perhaps 6.x changes this?

    Also NetBSD can handle really slow and old hardware well. Its used for embedded appliances like Sony's PSP. It scales well with little overhead.

    Science buffs like the BSD's better than Linux because its easier to profile apps as Linux does many more things under the hood. If I had to build an appliance to measure something for my PHD I would chose NetBSD.

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