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First NetBSD Bugathon a Success
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on Mon Sep 25, 2006 01:03 PM
from the of-course-it-runs-over-bugs dept.
from the of-course-it-runs-over-bugs dept.
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."
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Third NetBSD Hackathon Summary 15 comments
jschauma writes, "The third NetBSD Hackathon was
held on Saturday and Sunday, November 25th and 26th, 2006. 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 ensuring 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."
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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)
(http://theravensnest.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @07:05AM)
Re:Great...how about running it on another arch? (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.chriswareham.net/)
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 ...
What kind of bugs? (Score:1, Flamebait)
(http://honeypot.net/ | Last Journal: Friday April 07 2006, @09:33AM)
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)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Sunday July 29, @04:31PM)
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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Re:Why NetBSD? (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Tuesday October 03 2006, @07:58PM)
If nothing more, it is the most portable of the BSDs and a reasonable middle ground of performance and security, not really looking Bowie knife, but more Jack knife. It does leave it reasonable for companies that are looking to embed, but not wanting to contribute back.
Re:Why NetBSD? (Score:2, Interesting)
HTH.
Re:Why NetBSD? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/sinistertim101 | Last Journal: Saturday March 24 2007, @12:32PM)
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 for my PHD I would chose NetBSD.