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Last weekend the Free and Open Software Developer Meeting (FOSDEM)
happened. As in previous years, there was a booth manned by
people from various BSD-projects, and there were also
two(?) talks related to NetBSD and its related project pkgsrc:
- NetBSD and MirBSD developer Benny Siegert gave a talk titled
"pkgsrc on MirBSD" -
see his slides! pkgsrc is a framework for packaging and building 3rd party applications from source. Besides MirBSD, it runs on many
other platforms like Linux and Mac OS X.
- While building from source is fine, it costs a lot of time.
pkgsrc can also create binary packages, and to manage those,
there is "pkgin", a binary package manager.
Its developer, Emile 'iMil' Heitor
introduced it in a talk -
see the slides (PDF)!
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| It’s like early spring here in the northeast US. Which would be fine if it was actually spring. I miss snow. An explanation of the classic UNIX hierarchy. (via thesjg on EFNet #dragonflybsd) I’m behind any explanation that uses the phrase “accretion disk” to describe an organization. Hipster BSD. If this doesn’t make sense to [...]... |
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NetBSD/xen is available for some time now to work on
Amazon's Xen-based Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) platform,
as previously announced in
the NetBSD blog, and
the NetBSD wiki
has instructions on how to subscribe to Amazon, launching and
rebuilding the "AMI" images.
This work is continued by Jean-Yves Migeon, who is working on
build scripts for Amazon EC2, so
the "AMI" images can be provided easily,
with the eventual goal to
include them into the NetBSD build process by Jeff Rizzo,
so EC2 images can be automatically generated easily,
e.g. by NetBSD's build cluster.
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Google announced at Fosdem that
there will be Google Sommer of Code 2012,
the 8th time in a row.
Ot can be expected that NetBSD will strive to participate
again this year, and as such, now is a good time to
- make up your mind if you want to participate, either as student or mentor
- hash out details of project proposals and possible implementation details,
and also see how much time you can devote as possible mentor.
Also, think about choosing criteria for students and how
to communicate with them on a daily basis and also in cases
where problems arise (reallife on either side, student going AWOL, ...)
- go over the list of project proposals,
esp.
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| It’s on, again! Not that there was any doubt. I need to collect potential mentor names before DragonFly can be involved, so you can guess what I’ll say next…... |
| There’s a NetBSD Hackathon going on February 10th through 12th, mostly online. I mention this because it may have some effect on pkgsrc, used by both NetBSD and DragonFly. Hackathons for pkgsrc usually happen separately, but no harm in keeping an eye out for any positive benefits.... |
| Edward Berger found that using a LG/Hitachi DVD drive kept him from successfully booting a DragonFly install CD. Using other manufacturers worked out fine. What causes the problem? I don’t know, but it’s worth mentioning it out loud in case someone else gets bit by it.... |
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Matthias 'tron' Scheler
announced per mail
and on the NetBSD blog
``The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February
12th. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need fixing to get
NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.
Everybody that has an interest in NetBSD, from developers, documentation
writers, translators, to advanced users are invited to attend. To make sure
that NetBSD users get the best possible experience of the new release we
would like to fix as many bugs as possible. For a list of bugs and more
information look at the Wiki Page under
<https://wiki.netbsd.org/hackathon/>
please.
If you are able to help us fixing these bugs by supplying patches or
testing fixes please consider... |
| I’ve reviewed Michael Lucas’s book here before, so when he offered a chance to read his newest, SSH Mastery, I jumped at the chance. Michael Lucas has published a number of technical books through No Starch Press, and started wondering out loud about self-publishing. This is, I think, his first self-published technical volume. It’s a [...]... |
First time accepted submitter techgeek0279 writes "Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods to self-assemble into one-, two- and even three-dimensional macroscopic structures."
the website:
``EuroBSDcon2012
18 - 21 October 2012, Warsaw, Poland
EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for people working on and with BSD based operating systems and related projects. EuroBSDcon 2012 is the 11th EuroBSDcon and will take place in Poland, 18-21 October 2012 in Warsaw. EuroBSDcon is a great and unique time to learn more about the powerful BSD systems we use everyday and to connect with other developers around the world. ''
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