17667876
submission
jschauma writes:
NetBSD 5.1 has been released. NetBSD 5.1 is the first feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It includes security and bug fixes, as well as improved hardware support and new features. Some highlights include: RAIDframe parity maps, which greatly improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown; X.Org updates; Support for many more network devices; Xen PAE dom0 support; Xen PCI pass-through support. For a full list of all changes, please see the release announcement.
NetBSD 5.1 is dedicated to the memory of Martti Kuparinen, who was the victim of a traffic accident in June 2010.
4300331
submission
jschauma writes:
The NetBSD Project announced today the
availability of the NetBSD Project Blog,
their first offical interactive news outlet. In addition to the netbsd-announce
mailing list and the regular website
announcements, this blog hopes to provide frequent and somehwat more
detailed updates on new developments within NetBSD and pkgsrc.
In addition to the blog, a NetBSD
tweet or whatever those things are called has been created. What's next?
A facepage? A MyBook site? NetBSD/iphone?
3275973
submission
jschauma writes:
Various sites, are reporting that the next Sidekick LX 2009/Blade is going to run NetBSD as their operating system, causing Microsoft's recruiters to look for NetBSD developers.
3267501
submission
jschauma writes:
The first release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for
download from the NetBSD ftp site.
See this page for the Release Engineering status of the 5.0 release as well as this email for more information.
803489
submission
jschauma writes:
NetBSD's Simon Burge has added metadata journaling to the FFS (fast file system) code to NetBSD-current. The journaling code, known as WAPBL — Write Ahead Physical Block Logging — was originally written by Darrin B. Jewell for Wasabi Systems, Inc., and was contributed by Wasabi to the NetBSD community earlier this year. Wasabi has been shipping WAPBL-enabled products since 2003.
427356
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jschauma writes:
Yahoo! published a press
release, announcing that "it has become a platinum sponsor of The Apache
Software Foundation (ASF)." In their company
blog, Yahoo! points out their particular interest in Lucene as well as Hadoop and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of
both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia;
Yahoo! also provides
hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)
