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NetBSD Quarterly Status Report Published 19

Posted by timothy from the what-they've-done dept.
jschauma writes "The NetBSD Foundation published its second quarterly status report in 2005, covering the months April through June of 2005. Among many other things, this status report covers NetBSD's participation in Google's "Summer of Code", the new stable pkgsrc branch and various port-specific items."
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  • sad... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 13, 2005 @04:30PM (#13057681)
    Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. ...unless the news is about anything related to BSD, in which case it gets completely ignored (or trolled).

    Kinda sad considering this is actually worth discussing. (i.e. not a dupe or trying to provoke anti-MS comments or conspiracy theories)

    • Re:sad... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Nimrangul ( 599578 )
      Well, the BSD articles seem to be trolled so much because of Linux fans feeling insecure.

      It seems to me to be a case of George Carlin's Bigger Dick Foreign Policy being translated to the software world.

      You see, Linux fans get to say that they work with Free and Open software, but then there are these BSD guys that claim to be working on Freer and Opener software. They don't force cooperation and they don't allow as much binary stuff in their codebases.

      This makes Linux fans feel uncomfortable and since

    • Re:sad... (Score:4, Insightful)

      by MichaelSmith ( 789609 ) on Wednesday July 13, 2005 @05:13PM (#13057986) Homepage Journal
      gets completely ignored

      Well my excuse is that it came in at 4:00 in the morning.

      I plan to ignore the 3.0 release in the same way I have ignored the 1.6, 2.0 and 2.0.2 releases on my web servers.

      It will run, I will demand and get total reliability, and will therefore spend very little time thinking about it.

      If you want to talk about something, talk about something with issues

  • I am glad to see NetBSD will be getting a Project Evil analogue. Much as I hate the idea of encouraging hardware developers to not release native drivers, I do get a lot of benefit from Project Evil. My ThinkPad has a PC-Card 802.11g interface which only has Windows binary drivers. I can use it with FreeBSD via Project Evil, but I can't use it under NetBSD at the moment. It will also be nice to have HFS+ support. FreeBSD has an unmaintained HFS+ module ported from the Darwin source code, but nothing na
    • I'm wondering if there's a plan to really push for HFS+ migration from FFS. LFS seemed promising, but hasn't moved much, and is slower than soft-updated FFS for many things. HFS+, however, should be faster than either of them. I think they've kind of concluded that adding journaling to FFS is difficult; and at the same time, why bother, when there's another FS out there with an acceptible license that's better?

      That said, I'm really enjoying using NetBSD these days. It's such a nice system.
  • Pkgsrc is truly an amazing piece of technology. It has succeeded in merging the packaging systems of the Big Four BSDs: NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD. Indeed, its seamless integration with any of those systems shows its true merit. And with the work of package maintenance shared by the projects, there is now more time to focus on improving the main aspects of the operating systems: the kernel, filesystem, virtual memory subsystem, drivers, networking and so on.

    The productivity of the BSD projec
    • Um, pkgsrc hasn't merged anything. It's like openpkg and a few other projects - a multiplatform package system.

      Just because there are multiplatform packagers that work on a particular operating system does not mean that the original packager is dropped.

      Much as pf has become a firewall available on all the BSDs, it has not replaced the others to become the One True Firewall - it is an alternative which is available on multiple operating systems should the user desire it.

      And pkgsrc isn't a seamlessly in

      • Pkgsrc has merged the collective efforts of all of the major BSDs. No longer do they duplicate the package maintenance efforts for each project. That has been a great improvement, as time is now better spent on other development activities.
        • No, cause OpenBSD has it's own ports, FreeBSD has it's own ports and DragonFlyBSD has it's own ports.

          That pkgsrc could be used in that manner does not mean it has.

          As it is, pkgsrc is an alternative to the native packaging systems for the other three BSDs - not the replacement.

          The day that each of the BSD leaderships put out some wonderful press release talking about how they have combined efforts to improving the pkgsrc system as their new ports tree is the day that your assumption becomes valid.

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