Second NetBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2004

Daniel de Kok writes "Jan Schaumann announced that the second NetBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2004 is now available online. This report covers the major recent developments within the NetBSD project during April, May and June."

netBSD logo

[crackshoe]

how long has this logo been in the running? they manage to mention it constantly, but never actually give any information on it. just strikes me as a bit odd.

Re:netBSD logo

[chaos_echo]

how long has this logo been in the running? they manage to mention it constantly, but never actually give any information on it. just strikes me as a bit odd.

They started it in January, and it closed at the end of February. It was announced on at least their advocacy mailing list, and was on their news section on the front page of NetBSD.org at the time. They've been choosing a winner since then.

Mailing list announcement [netbsd.org]
NetBSD news [netbsd.org]

Re:netBSD logo

[Burb]

According to TFA which you might possibly have bothered to R, "earlier this year".

Re:netBSD logo

[obirt]

There seems to be some trouble at Verio or ISC with the main NetBSD site. I've had no trouble getting to it through Pair.com [pair.com]'s mirror www3.us.netbsd.org [netbsd.org].

Re:It is official!

[vijaya_chandra]

And stuff! But you know they're lying, judging by the number of Slashdot posts on this thread...

Hope you won't go by the hits on /. and start claiming everyone in the world gets on to /. daily

Re:Developer laments: What Killed FreeBSD

[Anonymous Coward]

Good News Everyone!
Mike Smith now works for Apple, who's OS is based on BSD.
He's back to writing BSD code, just for a different project.
Check it out: www.lemis.com/~grog/msmr.html [lemis.com]
and at: daemonnews, under "BSD at Apple" [daemonnews.org]

Re:*BSD is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Good News Everyone!
Turns out that *BSD is stronger than ever!
According to an Inernetnews article [internetnews.com], Netcraft has confirmed that *BSD has "dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
There has been a steady increase in *BSD developers over the past decade.
You can read more about FreeBSD here [freebsd.org]

If you would like to try out a BSD, you can download: FreeBSD [freebsd.org], OpenBSD [openbsd.org], NetBSD [netbsd.org], or DragonflyBSD [dragonflybsd.org]
Enjoy!

A Good Feature

[Anonymous Coward]

Xpkgwedge, not a ``real'' program in the traditional sense, is a hack that allows users to compile X11 pkgs from pkgsrc and install them outside of the X11 tree - even if they use imake - by using pkgxmkmf.

Nice! Anything that keeps binary packages separate on the installed system is a good thing. I'd like to see what would happen if this was carried out even further. NetBSD runs on a lot of architectures, some of which are infeasible to compile on. If I acquired a toaster to run NetBSD on, I'd prob

Perhaps OT...

[pkplex]

I was being nasty to an i386 netbsd 2.0F box the other night, by pulling out the ide cable to its hdd while it was up and running :)

Netbsd then put up some green text, with a few details and a mention of the hdd timing out. After I plugged the hdd back in, it carried on without any problems.

I done it a few times, and even pulled the cable out during a find /, and it did not die :)

The only way I manged to get it to crash was to unplug the ide cable and put it into another unrelated hdd... which made it go into ddb mode :)

Pretty damn stable IMO :)

Re:Perhaps OT...

[agent dero]

You sir, are insane.

That's about all I have to say about that

Re:Perhaps OT...

[Orick]

That's awesome!

Now, to go test NetBSD against power interruptions and see how it handles having random internal power plugs pulled....

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Kirby [generalhouseware.com]