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.
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.
734349
submission
jschauma writes:
Alistair Crooks, president of the NetBSD Foundation, announced recently that it ``has changed its recommended license to be a 2 clause BSD license.'' This makes NetBSD even more easily available to a number of organizations and individuals who may have been put off by the advertising or endorsement clauses. See Alistair's email and NetBSD's licensing information for more details.
427356
submission
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.)
47958
submission
jschauma writes:
The third NetBSD Hackathon was
held on Saturday and Sunday, November 25th and 26th, 2006, where NetBSD users
and developers met on IRC to prepare NetBSD for the upcoming re-branching
of NetBSD 4.0. Approximately thirty NetBSD developers and more than 140
NetBSD users joined in on the two days, paying particular attention to
improving install documentation and ensure build stability. A Wiki page as a TODO list
was used for the first time, an approach that is likely to be used in future
hackathons. All in all, over 200 bugs have been worked on in those two days
and while not all of the critical showstoppers could be fixed, valuable
progress was made in identifying root causes.
