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NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 binaries available for testing


May 26, 2012 posted by Jeff Rizzo

On behalf of NetBSD developers, I'm happy to announce the availability of the second (and final) public beta of NetBSD 6.0, for testing.

Binaries of NetBSD 6.0_BETA2 are available for download at:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_BETA2/

ISO images and (for amd64 and i386) images suitable for installing from USB sticks or other hard drives, and torrent files for downloading via BitTorrent are also available, as well as Amazon EC2 machine images and .xva files for use with Citrix XenServer and Xen Cloud Platform.

We are very pleased with the state of NetBSD 6.0_BETA2. With your help, we have made improvements since NetBSD 6.0_BETA. A sampling:

Please continue to report problems and to help us test! We anticipate the first Release Candidate of NetBSD 6.0 in late June/early July.

As always, please help us out by testing these changes and reporting problems either to an appropriate mailing list, via send-pr, or via the web form:

http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd Thanks again for your help in making NetBSD 6.0 the best release yet! [2 comments]

 

Updated X-Surf driver


May 15, 2012 posted by Blog Import

The new, reworked xsurf(4) driver features support for two clockports present on X-Surf card (in addition to already supported NE2000 ethernet). [0 comments]

 

XM6i ver 0.35


May 01, 2012 posted by Blog Import

XM6i version 0.35 has been released. Added Mac OS X 10.7 support. [0 comments]

 

PSX16550 now uses MI com driver


April 29, 2012 posted by Blog Import

PSX16550 fast serial board driver has been switched to using MI com(4) driver. See announcement on port-x68k mailing list for details. [0 comments]

 

NetBSD's Google Summer of Code™ Projects 2012


April 24, 2012 posted by S.P.Zeidler

The following projects have been chosen for Google Summer of Code™ this year (sorted by student's last name):
  • Socket option to timestamp UDP packets in the kernel
  • Student: Vlad Balan
  • TLS (HTTPS) support in net/tnftp
  • Student: Miklós HOMOLYA
  • Port ASan to NetBSD
  • Student: steve
  • Sysinst enhancements
  • Student: Eugene Lozovoy
  • HTree directory indexing for Ext3
  • Student: Vyacheslav Matyushin
  • NAT-PMP and/or UPnP IGD support for NPF; MiniUPnP integration
  • Student: Zoltan Arnold Nagy
  • NAT64/46 and NPTv6 integration with NPF
  • Student: mpp
Students: thanks for your quality proposals. We're looking forward to quality projects. :) We hope you'll have an interesting, successful, and also fun summer working with us. [1 comment]

 

KuroBox/T4 and TS-TGL support


April 24, 2012 posted by Blog Import

The KuroBox/T4 and the TeraStation Pro TS-TGL with their special miconV2 power management controller are now supported. [0 comments]

 

Clockport support


April 17, 2012 posted by Blog Import

The NetBSD finally includes support for clockport-based expansions, thanks to the new clockport(4) layer and a1k2cp(4) backend driver. Also, as a proof of concept, SilverSurfer clockport-based serial port card is now supported by the MI com(4) driver. [0 comments]

 

XM6i ver 0.34


April 14, 2012 posted by Blog Import

XM6i version 0.34 has been released. NE2000 network emulation using Windows TAP-Win32, MAC address configuration settings, extended memory (up to 1008MB) emulation, and some performance improvememts etc. [0 comments]

 

Prettifying the NetBSD console


April 01, 2012 posted by Michael Lorenz

Over the last few months, many of NetBSD's graphical console drivers have gained the ability to use anti-aliased fonts. This was done mostly as a way to allow relatively easy access to a vast number of fonts, but they also look a lot better than plain monochrome fonts. With the genfb(4) driver this feature is available on almost all supported hardware which supports graphics. Some specialized drivers also support it (such as radeonfb(4), r128fb(4), voodoofb(4), ffb(4) and voyagerfb(4) ) and more are being added over time.

In order to improve overall usability and to give NetBSD a more unified look across different platforms, we are going to use a single default font and colour scheme on all platforms. Since studies prove its superiour readability we are proud to announce that Microsoft has granted permission to use the Comic Sans font in all future NetBSD releases.

Screenshots:

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New NetBSD flyers available


March 18, 2012 posted by Benny Siegert

For informing our peers about NetBSD, for distributing at a conference or meet-up, or simply as a concise introduction – new NetBSD flyers are now available at http://www.NetBSD.org/gallery/advocacy/. They are made to be printed on A4 paper and folded twice. English and German versions are provided.

At the moment, there are three flyers: "What is NetBSD?" gives an overview about the project and the OS, while "Tips and Tricks for NetBSD newcomers" and "NetBSD for Newcomers – Switching from GNU/Linux" are more aimed at people who already know similar operating systems, particularly GNU/Linux, and want to know more about the differences between these systems and NetBSD.

We are very grateful to Julian Fagir, who provided these flyers to the project.

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NetBSD 6.0_BETA binaries available for testing


March 13, 2012 posted by Jeff Rizzo

On behalf of NetBSD developers, I'm happy to announce the availability of a public beta of NetBSD 6.0, for your testing pleasure.

This beta is substantially feature-complete; there may be some additional changes to the installer and possibly some additional hardware support if some is found missing and is easily added, but the major changes are done. What we need now is for you, the end users, to test it in your preferred configuration.

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posix_spawn syscall added


February 26, 2012 posted by Martin Husemann

The posix_spawn kernel implementation, mostly developed by Charles Zhang during Google Summer of Code 2011, has now been committed.

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