NetBSD

This weekend there was the first edition of the technical dutch open source event (T-DOSE for short) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands which I attended. I must say I’m very impressed with what the organisers have come up with just the first year. The organizers promised that they’d do it again next year, so [...]

Emmanuel Dreyfus just posted an email to netbsd-users pointing to his paper What’s new in NetBSD in 2006?. It’s an excellent overview of all the stuff that has been added to the source tree recently. Very useful if you haven’t followed developments too closely or would like to have some advocacy ammo :)

I’m moving wich means that i am offline for some time. Uberhost will be offline too. If everything works out ok i am back to normal in two or three weeks. Time to sync cvs one last time :).

There is a “NAMP” (NetBSD Apache MySQL PostgreSQL PHP, bah I hate the term) virtual appliance available on the VMware website: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/636 The appliance is based on NetBSD 3.1 and has the following ... [More] packages installed: bash-3.1pl1nb2 nano-1.2.4nb1 perl-5.8.8nb2 readline-5.1pl1nb1 mysql-client-5.0.24 mysql-server-5.0.24 expat-2.0.0nb1 apr-0.9.12.2.0.59 apache-2.0.59 pcre-6.6 nmap-4.11 apachetop-0.12.5nb1 xmlcatmgr-2.2nb1 libxml2-2.6.26 php-5.1.5 ap2-php5-5.1.5 postgresql80-client-8.0.8 php5-pgsql-5.1.5 phppgadmin-3.5.5nb4 php5-mysql-5.1.5 postgresql80-server-8.0.8 php5-mbstring-5.1.5 phpmyadmin-2.8.2 postgresql80-plperl-8.0.8 python23-2.3.5nb9 postgresql80-plpython-8.0.8 [Less]

As you may have noticed, the netbsd-4 branch has stalled since a number of weeks. This is because there are a number of problems with that branch, which have (mostly) been fixed in HEAD, but require a lot of work to pull up into the branch. Therefore we are planning to re-branch netbsd-4 [...]

I’d like to introduce my new roommate to you. This is Chuck: No, that’s not the cat(1), for we don’t live in /bin :)