December 2011
5 posts
The timing of security advisories →
It’s an old debate on when to release a security advisory:
It should be released as early as possible to give people a chance to fix, but at the same time the fixing should be in
a coordinated way….
Two new NetBSD Security Advisories: OpenPAM and... →
The NetBSD Security Officers have released two new
security advisories about problems found in 3rd
party software that comes bundled with NetBSD’s base system, OpenPAM and the BIND resolver. …
Running NetBSD on the LG-N2R1D NAS-family →
Why?
When my late server suddenly broke down i decided it needed replacement. I decided to go for a NAS for its low energy usage, small form factor and it needed to run additional services like…
BSDTalk Interview: Jim Brown on BSD Certification →
Dru mentioned on Facebook that BSD Talk #209
is out, this time with Jim Brown, one of the key people
behind the BSD certification.
BSD Certification
covers NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and…
New Developer in December 2011 →
November 2011
1 post
Netbooting g4u via PXE →
Doing a network based boot with PXE is not exactly hard,
but you need some debugging and the right tools in place.
If you want to netboot g4u via PXE, there’s a description
on how to do Netbooting…
October 2011
2 posts
Enlarging a (virtual) disk →
I’ve tried to build NetBSD-current at various points in the past few months, and always hit one of two bugs: -current blows up with
a gcc Internal Compiler Error when crossbuilding on Mac OS X,
and…
GSoC 2011 roundup: Add kqueue support to GIO →
As the Google Summer of Code 2011 (GSoC 2011) program concludes, we will be running a series of articles detailing the results of the projects mentored by The NetBSD Foundation. Today’s turn is…
September 2011
3 posts
New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2011-007 LZW... →
Request for project specs to remove the big... →
Dear users and developers, The Board of Directors is interested in improving the performance of the networking subsystem of the NetBSD kernel on multiprocessor machines. To help people interested…
Postfix 2.8.5 imported into NetBSD-current →
Postfix 2.8.5 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.4 are:
The Postfix Milter client logged a “milter miltername: malformed reply” error when a Milter sent an…
August 2011
1 post
Fossil and Git mirrors of pkgsrc and src →
The NetBSD CVS repository has seen a lot of work over the recent months to clean up various historic artefacts. Together with the improvements in cvs2fossil and the Fossil->Git conversion, it is now…
July 2011
5 posts
Postfix 2.8.4 imported into NetBSD-current →
Postfix 2.8.4 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.2 are:
Performance: a high load of DSN success notification
requests could slow down the queue manager….
New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2011-006 BIND DoS... →
Core group composition change →
The directors of the NetBSD Foundation and the Core group wish to
welcome Alan Barrett as new member of the Core group. He is replacing Antti Kantee; our sincerest thanks to Antti
for all his…
Sudbury Star article: There's no need to buy an OS →
Citing from yesterday’s article
“There’s no need to buy an OS”
in the Canadian newspaper
The Sudbury Star:
“There are also “lite” versions of the Linux operating system available,…
WiMAX and LTE enabled Router: CradlePoint MBR95... →
Found via Google News and citing the EVDOinfo article: “The CradlePoint MBR95 is the successor to the popular MBR900, which was very popular amongst home users. The next generation NetBSD…
June 2011
1 post
NetBSD and the World IPv6 Day →
June 8th 2001 was announced as
World IPv6 Day,
where some major websites would increase adoption of the
“new” internet protocol by actually using it. Interested NetBSD users have a variety…
April 2011
2 posts
New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2011-004 Kernel... →
New Developers →
March 2011
12 posts
Port tier system introduced →
Port tier system introduced →
The NetBSD core team has announced
a tier system for the hardware architectures supported by NetBSD.
The tier system classifies ports into three tiers.
Summarizing, the tiers consist of ports…
Freeze of pkgsrc tree for pkgsrc-2011Q1 →
Postfix 2.8.2 imported into NetBSD-current →
Postfix 2.8.2 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.1 are: Bugfix: postscreen DNSBL scoring error. When a client disconnected and then reconnected before all…
NetBSD participating in Google Summer of... →
Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends for a 3 month programming project with the participating open source mentoring organization of their choice. NetBSD is…
Rump: Distributed Kernel Services For NetBSD →
Rump is a componentization of the NetBSD kernel. It lends itself
to multiple uses, such as running kernel code as services in userspace and for example makes the high-quality NetBSD kernel code…
NetBSD at the 17th LinuxTag in Berlin →
The 17th LinuxTag takes place from May 11th - 14th, 2011 in Berlin.
In the last years there were 10,000 - 11,500 visitors from all over the
world in the Berlin Exhibition Grounds. There are a lot…
NetBSD now runs under Amazon EC2 →
It is with great pleasure that we officially announce the release of the first NetBSD Amazon Images for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (better known as Amazon EC2) for all currently available…
tmux imported into the base system →
New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2011-002 OpenSSL... →
New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2011-002 OpenSSL... →
Two new security advisories were published:
NetBSD-SA2011-002 OpenSSL TLS extension parsing race condition.
NetBSD-SA2011-003 Exhausting kernel memory from user controlled value
You…
Postfix 2.8.1 imported into NetBSD-current →
Postfix 2.8.1 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.7.* are: The postscreen daemon (a zombie blocker in front of Postfix) is now included with the stable…
February 2011
3 posts
NetBSD@FOSDEM 2011 →
On the first weekend of february, FOSDEM, the biggest european open source developers gathering, was again held in Brussels, Belgium. With several thousand attendees from all over the world, though…
pkgin 0.4.0 →
After a year of PR’s, feedbacks and various fixes, pkgin 0.4.0 is now available and its package, pkgtools/pkgin, is up-to-date. For the record, pkgin is a binary package manager aimed at…
New Developer in January 2011 →
January 2011
1 post
New Developers →
December 2010
4 posts
nxr update →
Dear Readers, The NetBSD Cross Reference service has recently
been updated to use the latest version of OpenGrok from pkgsrc.
In addition to the main NetBSD-current sources, the
following…
Interview with a NetBSD developer: today, Amitai... →
A few months after Thomas Klausner’s interview, please welcome today Amitai, better known as schmonz@.
NetBSDfr: For those of our readers that don't know you, can you introduce
yourself briefly ?
I grew up in a suburb of Chicago. Both at school and at home, my
childhood computing skewed Appleward. The exception was Texas
Instruments graphing calculators. By the end of high school, I had...
Hey NetBSD, got a match? →
Here’s one from the “get to know your shell” department.
And of course I’m talking about the only real shell, (t)csh.
So… let’s first make sure we are in (t)csh. Of course the
‘%’ prompt tells…
New Developer in November 2010 →
November 2010
8 posts
New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2010-012 OpenSSL... →
Two new security advisories were published:
NetBSD-SA2010-012 OpenSSL TLS extension parsing race condition.
NetBSD-SA2010-013 UDP6 Option Parsing local Denial of Service
You can find…
New Security Advisories: NetBSD-SA2010-012 OpenSSL... →
Postfix 2.7.2 imported into NetBSD-current →
Postfix 2.7.2 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.7.1 are:
Postfix no longer automatically appends the system default
CA (certificate authority) certificates,…
BSD Day 2010 in Budapest →
BSD day
During Saturday 20.11 there was a one day conference held in Budapest. There were some developers attending and we have seen quite a lot of good presentations. Particularly 4 of them was…
NetBSD 5.1 →
NetBSD 5.1 is now available for download. NetBSD 5.1 is the first feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It includes security and bug fixes, as well as improved hardware support and new…
NetBSD 5.1 released! →
robopkg: pkgsrc for robotics software →
Anthony Mallet pointed me at his robopkg effort:
“robotpkg is a compilation framework and packaging system for installing robotics software developed by the robotic community. It also contains…
The Lua Scripting Language →
About a week ago, I imported the Lua programming language, version
5.1.2, into NetBSD-current as a component of the base system.
Lua is a scripting language with a very small memory footprint that…
October 2010
8 posts
New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2010-011 OpenSSL... →
GraceTech builds human-friendly computer with wood... →
Google News pointed me at Austrian company Gracetech
today, founded by a long-time visionaire and NetBSD
user Raphael Langerhorst.
The website is currently only available in German
language, but…