NetBSD 10.0 RC6 available!


March 13, 2024 posted by Martin Husemann

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the sixth release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!
See the release announcement for details.

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NetBSD 10.0 RC5 available!


February 28, 2024 posted by Martin Husemann

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and probably last) release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!
See the release announcement for details.

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NetBSD 10.0 RC4 available!


February 07, 2024 posted by Martin Husemann

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and probably last) release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!
See the release announcement for details.

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NetBSD 10.0 RC3 available!


January 17, 2024 posted by Martin Husemann

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the third (and probably last) release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!
See the release announcement for details.

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NetBSD 10.0 RC2 available!


January 04, 2024 posted by Martin Husemann

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the second (and probably last) release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!
See the release announcement for details.

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NetBSD 10.0 RC1 available!


November 11, 2023 posted by Martin Husemann

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing!
See the release anouncement for details.

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FOSDEM 2023


February 08, 2023 posted by Pierre Pronchery

FOSDEM took place last week-end, as an offline-first event again for the first time since 2020. It was located as usual at the university campus of the ULB in Brussels. It was packed with developers, users, passionate and professionals of Open Source software, and while NetBSD did not have a booth this year, its presence could be felt on Saturday morning at the BSD DevRoom.[Read More] [0 comments]

 

Reproducible Builds Summit Venice 2022


January 02, 2023 posted by Pierre Pronchery

The sixth Reproducible Builds Summit took place exactly two months ago in Venice, Italy. These three days of workshops were filled with a succession of interactive sessions, where everyone attending had the opportunity to present or learn about anything related to Build Reproducibility. This included the status of specific Open Source projects, techniques to locate, analyse, and understand issues, or also how to explain and communicate better around this topic.

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NetBSD 10.0 BETA available


December 20, 2022 posted by Nia Alarie

After nearly 3 whole years of development (work started on NetBSD 10 in late 2019), BETA snapshots have finally been published for interested users to test. More changes will be backported from the development branch over the next few months before we tag a final release, so the BETA images will keep getting updated.

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NetBSD Arm on Oracle Cloud


October 15, 2022 posted by Jared McNeill

Support for running NetBSD on Oracle Cloud Arm-Based Compute Instances has been added to NetBSD -current.

A build of NetBSD/evbarm64 after 2022-10-15 will generate a bootable image (arm64.img.gz) that can be converted to a Custom Image that can run on Oracle Cloud. See full post for details.

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The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather is like


September 24, 2022 posted by Martin Husemann

I recently had to replace my oldish WS2300 weather station, which was connected via a long serial cable (running from my kitchen to the machine room in the basement) with a modern device, a WS3500. This now connects to my wifi network and logs data to a postgres server running on a tiny aarch64 SoC, which also provides a website to query the data.

This all was done with minimal base systems means, plus very few additional pkgs from pkgsrc: in my case the postgres server, obviously, (or at least databases/postgresql14-client, if a postgres server already runs somewhere) and misc/sunwait used for a few site related calculations I found interesting to display. The only other suprising component used is pom(6) from the games set, used to calculate the phase of moon. The weather station displays this on its console, but it is not part of the reported weather data - but easy to recalculate.

Part of this work was to analyze details of the ecowitt or the weather underground protocol and extracting data from it.

The other part was creating two websites that display the current weather or some parts of the weather history.

For the two last parts I took inspiration from previous work done on this by others, and overall it turned out to be straight forward.

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EuroBSDCon 2022


September 20, 2022 posted by Nia Alarie

After two years of trying, we managed to have a EuroBSDCon in Vienna. Here's how it went...

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