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NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released
ci4 writes to tell us that NetBSD 4.0 has been released and has been dedicated to the memory of Jun-Ichiro "itojun" Hagino. "Itojun was a member of the KAME project, which provided IPv6 and IPsec support; he was also a member of the NetBSD core team (the technical management for the project), and one of the Security Officers. Due to Itojun's efforts, NetBSD was the first open source operating system with a production ready IPv6 networking stack, which was included in the base system before many people knew what IPv6 was. We are grateful to have known and worked with Itojun, and we know that he will be missed. This release is therefore dedicated, with thanks, to his memory."
Sad to hear about itojun. This is the first time i've heard of this news.
Anyone know how he passed away?
Time to upgrade my toaster!
...and replaced it with Postfix. Sendmail's still available from pkgsrc, but it's no longer the default. Man, never thought I'd see the day when one of the BSDs finally did this...
Carousel is a lie!
Major achievements in NetBSD 4.0 include support for version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor, Bluetooth, many new device drivers and embedded platforms based on ARM, PowerPC and MIPS CPUs. New network services include iSCSI target (server) code and an implementation of the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. Also, system security was further enhanced with restrictions of mprotect(2) to enforce W^X policies, the Kernel Authorization framework, and improvements of the Veriexec file integrity subsystem, which can be used to harden the system against trojan horses and virus attacks. Please read below for a list of changes in NetBSD 4.0.
http://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-4/NetBSD-4.0.html
Major Changes Between 3.0 and 4.0
The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES and CHANGES-4.0 files in the top level directory of the NetBSD 4.0 release tree. Some highlights include:
Networking
* agr(4): new pseudo-device driver for link level aggregation.
* IPv6 support was extended with an RFC 3542-compliant API and added for gre(4) tunnels and the tun(4) device.
* An NDIS-wrapper was added to use Windows binary drivers on the i386 platform, see ndiscvt(8).
* The IPv4 source-address selection policy can be set from a number of algorithms. See "IPSRCSEL" in options(4) and in_getifa(9).
* Imported wpa_supplicant(8) and wpa_cli(8). Utilities to connect and handle aspects of 802.11 WPA networks.
* Imported hostapd(8). An authenticator for IEEE 802.11 networks.
* carp(4): imported Common Address Redundancy Protocol to allow multiple hosts to share a set of IP addresses for high availability / redundancy, from OpenBSD.
* ALTQ support for the PF packet filter.
* etherip(4): new EtherIP tunneling device. It's able to tunnel Ethernet traffic over IPv4 and IPv6 using the EtherIP protocol specified in RFC 3378.
* ftpd(8) can now run in standalone mode, instead of from inetd(8).
* tftp(1) now has support for multicast TFTP operation in open-loop mode, server is in progress.
* tcp(4): added support for RFC 3465 Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC) and Explicit Congestion Notification as defined in RFC 3168.
File systems
* scan_ffs(8), scan_lfs(8): utilities to find FFSv1/v2 and LFS partitions to recover lost disklabels on disks and image files.
* tmpfs: added a new memory-based file system aimed at replacing mfs. Contrary to mfs, it is not based on a disk file system, so it is more efficient both in overall memory consumption and speed. See mount_tmpfs(8).
* Added UDF support for optical media and block devices, see mount_udf(8). Read-only for now.
* NFS export list handling was changed to be filesystem independent.
* LFS: lots of stability improvements and new cleaner daemon. It is now also possible to use LFS as root filesystem.
* vnd(4): the vnode disk driver can be used on filesystems such as smbfs and tmpfs.
* Support for System V Boot File System was added, see newfs_sysvbfs(8) and mount_sysvbfs(8).
Drivers
*
Audio:
o Support for new models on drivers such as Intel ICH8/6300ESB, NVIDIA nForce 3/4, etc.
o Added support for AC'97 modems.
Your thoughts form your reality.
An OS that supports more platforms than it has users.
this new release of NetBSD confirms it.
metric in OS worth...
How are you liking your Windows install? Just curious.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
Yes, but do you feel target, best buy, circuit city, or any of the other corporate fascist masters we can choose are better in any material way? We must choose to live either on the grid or off.
If you're on the grid, people who you don't like are getting your money. Think BP/Shell/Texaco or your local monopolistic power company are filled with joyful liberals? Think the local water/sewage/waste disposal companies are your best friend?
Life is full of choices. Sometimes its what you can get, not who you're giving it to that is the deciding factor.
My Babylon
I had something cleaver an witty to say about "production ready IPv6 networking stack" note for the BSD 4.0 release, but it has escaped me. Thus, I'll let others do that for me...
~ In Trust, We Trust ~
1. Good for you. I'm talking about what comes installed by default, not what you can install yourself after the fact. And, yes, it matters, because people, even experienced, seasoned, veteran administrators are likely to use what's installed by default rather than install something extra manually. It's usually the path of least resistance.
2. I'm sorry you don't like my posts. I tend to make a lot of jokes with heavy, sarcastic humor and it's one of those things that either people love or they hate. Most of my funny posts get moderated either up to +5, Funny, or down to -1, Troll or Flamebait. One man's humour is another man's troll. Go figure. *shrug* On my more serious posts, I say exactly what I think. You don't like it? Disagree with me? Okay, I don't care. I think it's more important to say you what you really think than it is to say something that's popular and/or likely to be modded up.
My blog
If i'm not mistaken, the OpenBSD 4.2 release was also dedicated to Jun-Ichiro "itojun" Hagino, it was a big loss for the BSDs.
Does that mean they spread its ashes around somewhere or what? ;)
If you're on the grid, people who you don't like are getting your money.
Why should I care? As long as I give my money to them voluntarily through uncoerced economic transactions, it's not longer my money, it's theirs. I gave it to them. On the other hand, if I dislike them so much that I have to rant on Slashdot about it, then I shouldn't be doing business with them to begin with. As the doctor says, if it hurts to do that then don't do that!
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Yes, but is it uncoerced if the item you're buying is a necessity and you have no other choice because of a government protected monopoly?
My Babylon
I did a little digging and determined that it was almost certainly suicide. I found two blog posts from a google search on Itojun and noticed that the Google cache version was dated one day prior to the date listed on the blog posts. I then discovered that you can actually retrieve old text from the Google cache version of a page by tweaking your search query over and over. I determined that the two bloggers had deleted paragraphs from each of their posts talking about the cause of death, Itojun's mental health problems and his recent decent into depression.
To see what I'm talking about, check these search results and then compare the page that's being linked. You'll notice it's dated the 31st and the paragraph from the search results has been deleted. If you then perform queries using text from the search result snippet you can reveal more and more of the deleted text. For example, like this.
I'm a bit conflicted about posting the cause of death since multiple people took the trouble to attempt to delete that information from public view, but I figure that people will find this technique at recovering deleted information quite useful. I have recovered the complete text from each blog post, but am not going to post that information. If you care that much, you can figure it out for yourself.
"Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if *BSD will live."
"I see a vacant seat," replied the Ghost, "in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, *BSD will die."
"No, no," said Scrooge. "Oh, no, kind Spirit! say it will be spared."
"If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What then? If it be like to die, it had better do it, and decrease the surplus operating system population."
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief. It was sad to see any operating system die, even one so obviously flawed and useless as *BSD.
God bless us, every one.
I am against all government protected monopolies. I am also against any government privileges given to businesses. In such situation the economic transaction itself may not be coerced, but others in the economy definitely are. If a business can't compete without the heavy handed fist of government helping them, then they need to get out and make room for someone else who can.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
The loss of a single man — Matt Dillon, who went on to found DragonFlyBSD — was devastating. He is not only quite bright, but also energetic and somehow able to devote a lot of time to the open-source software development.
His being expelled — over an exasperated comment in a cvs-commit — was highly unfortunate in my not-so-humble opinion...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
And still no ia64 build. Myself and the other two ia64 users in the world are outraged!
The point of my OP was that complaining about walmart is pretty shallow given the state of the retail economy, anywhere you go is just as bad, so if you're not comfortable giving your money to walmart, you may as well try to live off the grid.
I have simply accepted that I can only make the best of it. I DON'T shop at walmart because of their overtly anti-union activities and their bait and switch with American labor (remember the early 90's commercials? I do). But I also don't shop @ Target if I can help it. I go to local joints where a small business owner benefits from me paying a few dollars more, but treats his employees like human beings instead of commodities.
Not to say that SB's are all that is holy, but at least I have less of a behemoth to judge how they're behaving. I buy from my farmer's market when I can because I find it morally reprehensible to shop at supermarkets that throw away 80% of the produce they buy just so we can feel like there's not a food shortage.
If everyone lived like the average citizen of the US, the world would be a shitty place REALLY quickly, so I try to do my part. I drive a 10 year old car. I live in a house that was built right, in 1934. I take my motorcycle when the weather in my part of the country allows. I recycle, I cook from scratch.
But even with all this, I need bathtowels, etc and the thrift stores in my city are terrible (I could drive an hour, but doesn't that really defeat the purpose?). So I'm forced to deal with big chains now and again, its just distasteful to me.
My Babylon