First NetBSD Bugathon a Success 32
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."
Impressive (Score:3, Interesting)
Great...how about running it on another arch? (Score:3, Insightful)
The last few versions of NETBSD has been seriously broken on the VAX architecture
(and before you say, "well, YOU Have the source...do something about it!"... I have been trying, but some of the bugs are beyond my abilities)
I would feel much better if NETBSD was just truthful and say "ok, we USED to run on a bunch of different architectures, but we don't anymore"
We keep getting the high-and-mighty "NETBSD runs on 40 different platforms"...NO IT DOES NOT.
It's like saying I speak English, French, Spanish, Russian, and German... my mother tounge is English...I took French in high school. I know a smattering of Spanish from watching TV. I took one year of Russian & German in University.
Realisticly, I only speak English.
Realisticly, NETBSD only runs properly on about ten platforms, not 40
Re:Great...how about running it on another arch? (Score:5, Interesting)
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It's too bad...I really liked NetBSD, but then it seemed to fall off the "test all architectures" rails a couple of years ago
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Which version of Firefox did you install? I'm running a native build from pkgsrc, but I've encountered occasional problems in the past with some of the emulated Linux binaries.
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When I installed it, it gave me a warning that the repository was for 3.0 when I had 3.0.1, but since I could not find a 3.0.1 repository on the netbsd ftp site, I figured it was a bogus warning.
Re:Firefox crashing (Score:1)
One thing to definitely test would be your machine's memory. If you can write a CD or floppy image I would strongly suggest downloading memtest from http://www.memtest.org/ [memtest.org] and leaving it running overnight.
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Sometimes I think that they might be better off clipping the back end of the support chain of the least supported archs, but I guess it's up to the
Prioritising architectures (Score:1)
Re:Great...how about running it on another arch? (Score:5, Informative)
Every time there's a NetBSD article on Slashdot, up pops a message about it not working on the Vax. I'm beginning to suspect it's the same individual, as the message is always worded in a very similar way - as a none too subtle attack on NetBSD's cross platform capabilities. Just for the record my Vax, SGI Indy, SparcStation 5 and Dell laptop are all running NetBSD 3.0.1, the most recent release. The Vax previously ran 2.1, 2.0, 1.6.2, and 1.5.3 without problems. Around the time of 2.0 I was actually running it on three different Vax machines (3100 m76, 3100 m80 and 4000 VLC). Never had a single problem installing from CD or running NetBSD.
Now, getting NetBSD running on the last generation of Apple's 12" Powerbook (model 6,8) is a different matter - but I've been unable to get OpenBSD or YellowDog Linux installed on it either ...
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This means all constructs in MI areas of the kernel (and the entire userland) need to keep compatible with gcc 2.9.5 and cannot
What kind of bugs? (Score:1, Flamebait)
I'm trying to think of funny jokes about the types of bugs you find on a corpse, but they just aren't coming. In seriousness, though, what kind of bugs do the remaining 4,000 comprise? Are these along the lines of translation errors in i18n man pages, or kernel dumps on SCSI RAID systems?
P.S. FreeBSD for the win.
Re:What kind of bugs? (Score:4, Informative)
As for the classification of other bugs, you can check out http://www.netbsd.org/Gnats/ [netbsd.org] for a table of how those are distributed. Quite a few are specific to just a single port.
Now I use OpenBSD (Score:1, Troll)
Now I do OpenBSD on a low power AMD chip and I don't run into those dead ends... "that doesn't work"
Of course it was a success (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, though; glad to see they had a good turn out for it. Hopefully this will put to rest some of the "NetBSD is irrelevent" crap that's been floating around recently. Particularly since most of the hype appears to merely be sour grapes from people who were on the wrong side of a power struggle and are now trying to tear down the project (as opposed to anyone with a valid beef).
30 developers isn't that bad, really. Not up to FreeBSD numbers, certainly; but it's a good start. Particularly given that this event wasn't really publicised in any real way (there was nothing here, or on the front page of netbsd.org about it in advance).
Sidenote to the guy having problems with his VAX: problems with one archetetcture (sp?) don't indicate that NetBSD is becoming x86-centric; they just indicate that maybe -just maybe- -what with NetBSD being contributer oriented and all- that the bugs just might be beyond the -VAX team's abilities as well.
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Attitudes like this are exactly what's needed to begin the healing process.
-- greg
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HTH.
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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
GNAA suspected in death of Rob Levin (Score:1)
GNAA suspected in death of Rob Levin
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An announcement of his death was transmitted as a Global Notice across the Freenode network, on September 17 at 06:1