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Eric d'Alibut | 2 Mar 2007 04:16
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Re: netbsd flag -- similarity to hindu religious symbol?

On 2/27/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh dear. I thought (one of) the points of using the flag was to avoid
> religious symbolism?

That "flag" is a generic banner outline that most likely has been used
in countless applications over countless years. The fact that one of
those countless applications is a religious one does not all of sudden
render "possession" of that outline to that religion.

Tell the grad student intern that he's not being paid to think about
such things. Hopefullly he's not being paid at all.

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Marc G. Fournier | 2 Mar 2007 20:24
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BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006


Well, I skip'd reporting last month, like anyone missed it, right?

Well, last month, and this month, have been seen ~10% increases in first of 
month numbers, so its still growing ...

Thanks to all that are participating ... for those just tuning in, please check
out http://www.bsdstats.org ... there was a new version put up (v5.3, already
in FreeBSD ports) over the past little while that extends the reporting for the
FreeBSD ports system ... I have no experience with any of the other *BSD ports
systems, but if someone would like to submit a patch to include theirs, please
feel free.  It is another purely optional report that gives numbers of ports in
use, including version numbers, for the various software packages.

                    Feb    Mar     % Chg

      DesktopBSD      9     13       44%
                      8     13       62%

       DragonFly     17     10      -41%
                     12     10      -16%

         FreeBSD   4297   4147       -3%
                   3719   3890        4%

     MidnightBSD      3      1      -66%
                      0      1     -100%

          MirBSD     13      3      -76%
                      0      0     -100%
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Matt Olander | 2 Mar 2007 21:49
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Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

On Friday 02 March 2007 11:24 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Well, I skip'd reporting last month, like anyone missed it, right?
>
> Well, last month, and this month, have been seen ~10% increases in
> first of month numbers, so its still growing ...

Thanks Marc! I noticed and I missed it ;-)

-matt

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Aaron J. Grier | 3 Mar 2007 01:07

Re: New Daily Build Cluster

(replies directed to -advocacy from netbsd-announce)

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:50:49AM -0800, Phil Nelson wrote:
> The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that we have now have a
> second "build cluster" building releases of NetBSD daily.  The
> Computer Science Department at Western Washington University in
> Bellingham Washington (USA) is using part of their cluster of i386
> machines to build daily releases for NetBSD when they are not required
> for other use.  The cluster is composed of 24 machines: the build
> master and 23 slaves.   This cluster is currently building about two
> complete releases every day.

are there any details available on how this cluster is set up?

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Phil Nelson | 4 Mar 2007 06:55
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Re: New Daily Build Cluster

On Friday 02 March 2007 16:07, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> are there any details available on how this cluster is set up?

What kind of details?

   24 port 1000/100 switch
   master with 2 interfaces: 1 to WWU, 1 to switch
   All machines commodity machines (slaves 1u units, server 2u unit)
   slaves P4 3.2Ghz, 1G memory, 70G SATA ...
   master Xeon 3.05Ghz, 1G memory, 130G disk ...
   All running NetBSD-4 (beta)

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Aaron J. Grier | 4 Mar 2007 08:04

Re: New Daily Build Cluster

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 09:55:41PM -0800, Phil Nelson wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 16:07, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> > are there any details available on how this cluster is set up?
> 
> What kind of details?

how the compilation is distributed across the machines in the cluster,
specifically.  one slave per architecture?  distcc?  something else?

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Geert Hendrickx | 4 Mar 2007 16:04
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Re: New Daily Build Cluster

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:04:22PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> how the compilation is distributed across the machines in the cluster,
> specifically.  one slave per architecture?  distcc?  something else?

The same as the "old" releng build cluster: all architectures are in a
queue and are assigned to individual slaves.

	Geert
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Hubert Feyrer | 14 Mar 2007 18:13
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Call for Participation Chaos Communication Camp 2007


<snip>
The Call for Participation for the Camp is online. Please 
spread the word and point interesting people to it, or, better yet, hand 
in your own presentation on topics like:

     * flying and non-flying autonomous robots
     * security, encryption and anonymity
     * software projects
     * technologies for the day after the climate change
     * rapid prototyping and fabbing
     * software and hardware for disaster-resistant infrastructure
     * bringing broadband to the countryside
     * politics and propaganda
     * anti-crowd-control tactics and technologies
     * lock picking
     * alternative energy systems
     * citizen surveillance, data mining technologies, and social networks
     * data forensic methods
     * all things radio (preferably digital)
     * self-sustaining and -reproducing hardware
     * pollution free transport systems
     * hacker anthropology and sociology of the scene
     * flying cars, saucers and carpets
     * 42
     * tesla generators
     * telecommunication technologies
     * FPGA based analysis
     * military technologies
     * all kinds of voting computers
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Hubert Feyrer | 16 Mar 2007 02:16
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FrOSCon CfP


FrOSCon 2007 will be held on August 25/26 in Sankt Augustin near bonn, 
Germany. The CfP is now up. If anyone's going there and do a NetBSD booth, 
let me know and I can help out with stuff.

http://www.froscon.org/Home.2.0.html?L=1
http://www.froscon.org/Read-News.5+M5cd0afb1637.0.html?&L=1

  - Hubert
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Jason Dixon | 16 Mar 2007 02:36
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Announcing the MetaBUG

We are officially announcing the MetaBUG, a global BSD users group  
dedicated to the advocacy of BSD.  The goals of MetaBUG are:

- Foster inter-BUG relations to increase unity in the BSD community
- Increase awareness of user groups
- Share resources, materials, and information to promote BSD
- Distribute live feeds of speaker presentations
- Assist in starting or growing local BUGs
- Provide a BSD user group for users with no local BUG access

One of the most interesting features will be video streams of member  
presentations.  This allows us to offer audio/video streams of live  
presentations to users around the globe.

If your BSD user group is interested in collaborating with other  
BUGs, or you're a user without access to your own local group, join  
the talk <at> metabug.org mailing list.  For more details, please visit  
http://metabug.org/ or send your questions to info <at> metabug.org.

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