More disk(s) fun


July 07, 2016 posted by Martin Husemann

When I got my Sun T1000 machine, it came with a ~80 GB hard disk - good enough for a NetBSD installation, but a bit challenged when you want to use logical domains. Time to expand disk space, or maybe make it faster? But these 1U server machines do not offer a lot of room for extensions, and it is sometimes tricky to get hold of the official extension options nowadays.

So I had fun with disks and modern replacements again...

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cdn.NetBSD.org and nycdn.NetBSD.org and fastly


July 05, 2016 posted by Matthew Sporleder

NetBSD is happy to announce a generous setup provided by Fastly to give us CDN services. We are live with cdn.NetBSD.org for downloading iso files, binary packages, and anything else that you would find on ftp.NetBSD.org.

nycdn is using nyftp.NetBSD.org as an origin so you can use it to download build snapshots and other useful stuff you would otherwise find on nyftp. (NetBSD-daily for example)


We have already changed some default download links (downloads and pkgsrc) and some pkgsrc files, so you might already be using the cdn without knowing it.

You can also change your PKG_PATH from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org to http://cdn.netbsd.org

HTTPS also works, but not IPv6


If you are not familiar, a CDN is a globally distributed set of caching proxy servers which makes downloading files faster when they are hot in the cache.

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GSoC 2016 Reports: Split debug symbols for pkgsrc builds, part 1


June 22, 2016 posted by Leonardo Taccari

For the 10th time The NetBSD Foundation was selected for the GSoC 2016!

Now that we're near the first mid-term evaluation and have written the code during these weeks it's also the right time to start writing some reports regarding our projects in this series of blog posts.

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pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Ryo ONODERA


June 08, 2016 posted by Kamil Rytarowski

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. The next one is with Ryo ONODERA, a Japanese developer maintaining large C++ packages.

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pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Jonathan Perkin


June 07, 2016 posted by Kamil Rytarowski

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. The next one is with Jonathan Perkin, a developer in the Joyent team.

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pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Benny Siegert


June 06, 2016 posted by Kamil Rytarowski

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. The next one is with Benny Siegert, a developer active in the release engineering team.

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pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Thomas Klausner


June 02, 2016 posted by Kamil Rytarowski

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. The 3rd one is with Thomas Klausner, a developer well known for his maintainership of the pkgsrc-wip project.

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pkgsrc 50th release interviews - Joerg Sonnenberger


May 31, 2016 posted by Kamil Rytarowski

The pkgsrc team has prepared the 50th release of their package management system, with the 2016Q1 version. It's infrequent event, as the 100th release will be held after 50 quarters.

The NetBSD team has prepared series of interviews with the authors. We started with Joerg Sonnenberger, a developer well known for his LLVM on NetBSD contribution.

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NetBSD 7.0.1 released


May 28, 2016 posted by Soren Jacobsen

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.0.1, the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 7.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons. If you are running an earlier release of NetBSD, we strongly suggest updating to 7.0.1.

For more details, please see the release notes.

Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/.

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What to do when you run out of (ancient) 50 pin SCSI disks?


May 27, 2016 posted by Martin Husemann

Unable to buy new 50 pin SCSI disks, and not willing to spend huge amounts of money on fast SCSI disks then slowed down by 50pin adapters, I looked for alternative solutions for the root disks of my mac68k and alpha machines.

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pkgsrc-2016Q1 - the Fiftieth pkgsrc Release


May 09, 2016 posted by Alistair Crooks

A perspective, looking back 19 years over pkgsrc, to celebrate the 50th quarterly pkgsrc release.[Read More] [0 comments]

 

talks about blacklistd


April 04, 2016 posted by Matthew Sporleder

Watch a video by Christos Zoulas (with good audio!) talking about blacklistd
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