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Last Update: Sat Jun 7 15:32:51 2008

- Jibbed LiveCD 0.14.64 released - Zafer Aydogan wrote me that he has released a new version of his Jibbed NetBSD LiveCD . News in version 0.14.64 [...] more than 1GB, as there's a bug in NetBSD's handling of compressed vnc(4) images, which leads to kernel panics.

- EuroBSDCon needs you - Emmanuel Dreyfus writes: `` EuroBSDCon 2008 needs you (or at least your papers). The deadline for paper submission [...] an abstract to pc at eurobsdcon.org The new call for papers is here: http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/cfp.html ''

- Book: BSD UNIX Toolbox: 1000+ Commands for FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD - From the Business Wire press release : `` This handy, compact guide teaches you to use BSD UNIX systems as the [...] For more information, see the Business Wire press release and of course the publisher's information on the book .

- NetBSD-based Force10 switch receives 2008 Product Innovation Award - From the Business Wire press release : `` Force10 Networks(R), the pioneer in building and securing reliable [...] information about the Force10 C300 resilient switch, please visit force10networks.com/products/cseries.asp ''

- The great source-changes catch-up for late March, April, and May 2008 - Ok, after more weeks of slacking, some gems that I've found noteworthy, i.e. that have some "enduser" effect, where [...] smaller, Rob Marpled's DHCP Client Daemon dhcpcd(8) was imported. It is 1/6 of the size, yet has about all t

- DracoPKG: an attempt at merging pkgtools and pkgsrc - According to the homepage , DracoPKg is `` a humble attempt at merging pkgtools and pkgsrc through a simple [...] , go and have a look. Maybe this is the thing that gives pkgsrc the "product readiness" it's been lacking so far?

- Hackathon #11 this weekend: Bugathon - Preparations of the NetBSD 5.0 release will start soon, and to reduce the number of outstanding bugs before the [...] on irc.freenode.net for coordination. There's quite a bit to do, so if you have time -> join in!

- NetBSD on a Stick - Pierrick Brossin pointed me at the new NetBSD on a Stick page , which is `` a project devoted to installing [...] to put NetBSD on a USB stick, the page has an install guide that describes how to get NetBSD on a memory stick.

- distbb - A new tool for distributed bulk builds - NetBSD's packages collection knows the concept of "bulk builds" since the NetBSD 1.3 days, when I wrote the bulk [...] the winner as the system that gives me binary packages for a NetBSD release for all platforms that NetBSD supports.

- DaemonForums - New *BSD Forums - Kienja Kenobi wrote me to advertize the new DaemonForums website: `` The community is one of the most important [...] to the new forums, which are built specifically to prevent spam and outlast any single administrator. '' Enjoy!

- More kernel works: preemption and realtime, devfs, modules, testing - The following kernel-related projects were raised in the past few weeks: Kernel Preemption: Andrew [...] for the kernel, containing the install tools. In order to split things and eventually use a stock GE

- NetBSD reference card - Leonardo Taccari had the idea to make a reference card for NetBSD and pkgsrc , and has posted about it . The card [...] the NetBSD rc.d startup system, starting and stopping of services, wscons, pkgsrc and related tools and more.

- pkgsrcCon 2008 - Registration and CFP Reminder - Lubomir Sedlacik has sent out a reminder about the pkgsrcCon 2008 registration and Call for Paper : `` There is [...] register, and How to submit a presentation proposal, please visit http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/2008/ ''

- BSD Magazine: 1st issue is out now! - After the DaemonNews paper magazine is long gone, there's a new paper magazine BSD Magazine now! Dru Lavigne [...] NetBSD is and can do. I'm sure the publishers will be happy to receive more articles about NetBSD -- contribute!

- Reducing libc size - In embedded environments, space is always scarce - be it physically, for storage (disk/flash space), or for for [...] media from src/distrib, but it's also a very undocumented area of NetBSD. Any takers for a "beastybox" article? :-)

- Recent development related to puffs, ReFUSE, rump, and more (Updated) - NetBSD's kernel is under very active development these days, and while many changes are related to improve SMP, [...] kernel (putter) Using putter to implement support for userspace block/char device drivers (pud). pud does still

- Plat'Home's SSD Linux: Linux Kernel + NetBSD Userland - Google News has pointed this outa few times, but as the NetBSD/evbppc port runs on their OpenBlockS for some [...] Guide for more information. While the OS uses a Linux kernel, most of the userland is taken from NetBSD. ''

- Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations - Let me quote this in full from O'Reilly's Allison Randal's blog : `` For the 4th year running, Google and O'Reilly [...] '' Who's your #1 NetBSD person? Discuss at netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.org, suggest to osawards@oreilly.com!

- Summer of Code, and Security Advisories - Just a mini-catchup, I'm too lazy to duplicate the details here: This year's Google Summer of Code [...] stuff in NetBSD's src that could be phased out with the help of a properly integrated packaging system. Any takers?

- Draco GNU/Linux 0.3.0 - powered by pkgsrc - From the e-linux.it announcement : `` Draco GNU/Linux is a distribution based on Slackware Linux and "pkgsrc", a [...] Download the CD images from here: draco-0.3.0.iso (232MB, MD5 ), draco-desktop-2007Q4.iso (596MB, MD5 ). ''

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