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NetBSD
| The BSD Show!, the show I didn?t know was there, already has more 20 minutes more of content; an interview with Adam Hamsik about NetBSD. They?re looking for more guests, too?... |
| On the NetBSD Blog, there's an in depth article about how rump can be used for testing and debugging the NetBSD kernel in userspace. "This article explains how rump is the enabling technology for a safe, fast and run-anywhere kernel test suite which requires absolutely no configuration from the person running the tests."... |
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NetBSD's core team is responsible for technical steering
of the project. In the past the group was five people,
and it was increased to seven people now.
Read more in
Alistair Crooks' announcement:
``We take great pleasure in announcing that the NetBSD core team,
responsible for technical management within the NetBSD project, has
increased its numbers to seven. This is to help in the running of a
project with an ever-growing source base and developer community, and
mirrors a similar change made to the board of directors, which has
worked extremely well.
To help with the running of the project, we have asked Antti Kantee
(pooka%NetBSD.org@localhost) and Chuck Silvers (chs%NetBSD.org@localhost), and
they have
very kindly agreed to join the core team. Antti is well known to many
both inside and outside the project, and has contributed many new and
exciting ideas, the most memorabl... |
| On pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org, Greg Troxel proposed getting rid of gimp-print and associated packages. It?s been superseded by gutenprint-lib, so it may be worth switching now for the newer printer drivers, even if the package isn?t eliminated.... |
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According to its
homepage,
coccinelle is
``a program matching and transformation engine which provides the language SmPL (Semantic Patch Language) for specifying desired matches and transformations in C code. Coccinelle was initially targeted towards performing collateral evolutions in Linux. Such evolutions comprise the changes that are needed in client code in response to evolutions in library APIs, and may include modifications such as renaming a function, adding a function argument whose value is somehow context-dependent, and reorganizing a data structure.''
Jean-Yves Migeon
has applied coccinelle to NetBSD, and suggested performing
two manual tasks, citing from
his email to tech-kern:
- replace all sizeof(fooarray)/sizeof(foo) calculations by its
__arraycount() macro equivalent, provided in cdefs.h
- detect places where aprin...
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It's about time NetBSD gets the PDP11 port done:
the PDP-11/70 CPU core is now available as implementation on a FPGA-board,
and there's need for a newer operating system than
2.11BSD! Citing from the
homepage:
``The project contains a complete PDP-11 system: a 11/70 CPU with memory management unit, but without floating point unit, a basic set of UNIBUS peripherals (DL11, LP11, PC11, RK11/RK05), and last but not least a cache and memory controllers for SRAM and PSRAM. The design is FPGA proven, runs currently on Digilent S3BOARD and NEXYS2 boards and boots 5th Edition UNIX and 2.11BSD UNIX. ''
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According to its
homepage,
coccinelle is
``a program matching and transformation engine which provides the language SmPL (Semantic Patch Language) for specifying desired matches and transformations in C code. Coccinelle was initially targeted towards performing collateral evolutions in Linux. Such evolutions comprise the changes that are needed in client code in response to evolutions in library APIs, and may include modifications such as renaming a function, adding a function argument whose value is somehow context-dependent, and reorganizing a data structure.''
Jean-Yves Migeon
has applied coccinelle to NetBSD, and suggested performing
two manual tasks, citing from
his email to tech-kern:
- replace all sizeof(fooarray)/sizeof(foo) calculations by its
__arraycount() macro equivalent, provided in cdefs.h
- detect places where aprin...
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| There?s an online hackathon (the 14th!) planned for July 30th through August 2nd for pkgsrc (and probably some NetBSD material too) at FreeNode/#netbsd-code on IRC. Aleksej Saushev?s post has more details. At least it?s cheap to attend!... |
| Alex Hornung has imported LVM2 from NetBSD, along with cryptsetup and dm. (Not dm(8), but devicemapper) LVM(8) stands for Logical Volume Management, and it makes storage management much easier; you may have encountered it on NetBSD or Linux. Those additional tools make it possible to encrypt volumes. Alex has published details on how to use [...]... |
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Citing from the
call for papers:
``The New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical
conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to
share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to
have fun. This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD
Users Group (NYC*BUG).
The NYCBSDCon program committee is accepting submissions for
imaginative, embryonic and energizing presentations surrounding the BSD
operating systems. We are looking to attract a wide range of speakers
and attendees; therefore, topics of interest range from the esoteric to
development to practical, everyday sysadmin life. Of course, original
topics are preferred in most cases.
Each talk is expected to be 45-50 minutes, including a few minutes for
questions and answers. All presentations will be recorded for audio and
video. Presenters will have audio/visual and network connec... |
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Development on the mandoc(1)
manual formatter is moving fast these days.
Currently, mandoc was hacked on during two hackathon in less
than two months. From May 13 to May 17, 2010, Kristaps Dzonsons (bsd.lv
and OpenBSD), Joerg Sonnenberger (NetBSD) and Ingo Schwarze (OpenBSD) met
at the BEC.de site in Elmenhorst near
Rostock, Germany for a mini-hackathon (m2k10) dedicated exclusively on
mandoc. Ingo was again focusing on mandoc during the yearly OpenBSD
general hackathon (c2k10)
and Kristaps was strongly supporting him remotely.
The mandoc utility is a lightweight, portable
mdoc(7) and
man(7) formatter written
in C, started by Kristaps in 2008, so far supporting ASCII,... |
 Security-minded laptop users live in fear of theft, not only of their computer but also of their precious secret data. NetBSD's CGD project is a cryptographic virtual disk that can protect sensitive data while acting like a normal filesystem. Federico Biancuzzi recently interviewed its author, Roland Dowdeswell, on the goals and implementation of the system.... |
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