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Submission + - NetBSD 5.1 released (netbsd.org)

Submitted by jschauma on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @10:58AM

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.

Submission + - Forget Microsoft CE, new Sidekick to run NetBSD (boygeniusreport.com)

Submitted by jschauma on Monday February 02, 2009 @11:45AM

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.

Submission + - NetBSD 5.0 RC1 released (netbsd.org)

Submitted by jschauma on Sunday February 01, 2009 @03:08PM

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.

Submission + - Yahoo! becomes Platinum Sponsor of Apache Software (shareholder.com)

Submitted by jschauma on Sunday December 16, 2007 @06:54PM

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.)

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