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Jan Schaumann | 1 Jul 2002 23:55
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New Developers

The NetBSD Project is pleased to welcome the following new developers,
who have joined the project since May 2002:

        * Hiroyuki Bessho (bsh <at> netbsd.org), who will be working on the
          arm ports.
        * Tero Kivinen (kivinen <at> netbsd.org), who will be working on
          laptop hardware support.
        * Mattias Karlsson (keihan <at> netbsd.org), who will be working
          helping out with the www <at> netbsd.org mailing list and working
          on the web site
        * Love Hoernquist-Astrand (lha <at> netbsd.org), who will be working
          on debugging support.

As usual, we welcome these new developers to The NetBSD Project!
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Lars Tunkrans | 16 Jul 2002 12:29
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NORDU2003 - Call for Papers

Subject: Call For Papers NordU2003

5th NordU/USENIX Conference, General Technical (NordU2003)
February 10 - 14, 2003
Aros Congress Center
Vaesteraas, Sweden

Important Dates
Paper submissions due: September 2, 2002
Notification of acceptance: October 2, 2002
Camera-ready final papers due: December 2, 2002

Conference Organizers

Program Chairs
Martin Wahlen, Sound Foundation
Poul-Henning Kamp, FreeBSD developer & consultant

Program Committee
Seppo Kauppinen,
Lars Tunkrans, Fujitsu Services
Kristen Nielsen, TDC TeleDanmark Network Division.

Review Committee
Jonas Skeppstedt, Lund University
Marshall Kirk McKusick, Unix developer & consultant - formerly CSRG UCB.
Julia Lawall, DIKU
Brian A. LaMacchia, Microsoft

Tutorial Coordinator
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he | 22 Jul 2002 22:57
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Announcing NetBSD 1.5.3

                          Announcing NetBSD 1.5.3
                          =======================

   The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that release 1.5.3 of the
   NetBSD operating system is now available.

   NetBSD 1.5.3 is a maintenance release for users of NetBSD 1.5.2,
   1.5.1, 1.5 and earlier releases, which provides the following
   updates relative to 1.5.2:

    * A number of security problems have been fixed
    * Some performance fixes have been incorporated
    * Improved device support in some existing drivers
    * Some new device drivers have been added

   Please note that a new major release of NetBSD, version 1.6, is
   currently in beta test and should be released within a few weeks.
   NetBSD 1.6 will be a substantial functional improvement over
   NetBSD 1.5.3.

   A complete list of changes are available in the CHANGES-1.5.3 file
   in top directory of the NetBSD 1.5.3 release tree. Also, included
   later in this announcement, is a list of the major changes added
   between NetBSD 1.5.2 and 1.5.3.

   Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 1.5.3 are available for
   download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites via
   FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other methods is provided at the end of this
   announcement; the latest list of available download sites may also be
   found at: http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/
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Alistair Crooks | 22 Jul 2002 20:30
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Summary of Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in May 2002

Summary of Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in May 2002
================================================================

[Apologies once again for the lateness of this mail. For a full list
of changes, please refer to the current-users mailing list. - agc]

92 packages were added in May, whilst 2 were removed, which by my
estimates, mean that there were 2898 packages in the packages
collection at the end of May, there being 2808 at the end of April.

The main change is the addition of the kde3 packages, with many thanks
to Nick Hudson for his excellent work. Also notable are some the changes
that Amitai Schlair has made better to support Darwin.

Notable additions include:  upclient, acidlaunch, algae, a development
meta-package for Amanda, arts, cg, cilk, conserver, cxunzip, dbz-ttf,
diction, dlcompat for Darwin (thanks, Amitai), dvipdfm, efax-gtk,
elinks, emacs21-nox11, epic4-doc, euler, fam, ftpproxy, fxtv-capture,
GConf2, generator, gimp-print-cups, gnet, gri, htmldoc, http_load,
imapfilter, intltool, jini, joos, kde3 and related packages,
lambdamoo, lbreakout2, leim, libart2, libirman, lmme, lpairs, ltris,
mailsync, marbles, mencoder, mkfontalias, mkfontscale, molden,
mpegaudio, mpeg123-nas, mplayer-share (thanks, Bernd), nullmailer,
oggasm, oto, p11, p5-Font-TTF, projclock, qiv, rioutil, rootprobe,
some rox utilities, sather (thanks, Jason), solid-pop3d, spiralsynth,
sun-jdk14 and sun-jre14 (thanks, Jan), text2rtf, w3m-img, xchrono,
xmms-mad, xrick, yrolo, and zile.

Notable updates include:  adzap, analog, bind 8 and 9, bochs, bonobo
components, bwbasic, ccache, cdpack, chemtool, claraocr,
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Alistair Crooks | 25 Jul 2002 18:08
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Summary of Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in June 2002

Summary of Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in June 2002
=================================================================

[For a full listing of the changes, please refer to the mail in
the tech-pkg archives - agc]

By my calculations, there were 2970 packages in the packages collection
at the end of June, up from 2898 the previous month, a rise of 72.

Notable additions to the packages collection include:  adom, ap2-perl,
arirang, autoconvert, bbmail, bbrun, bg5ps, Canna-dict and server,
check, Chinput, cross-h8300-hms binutils and gcc, demime, dnetc,
docsis, eblook, edonkey2k, eggdrop, emech, esms, fcgi, gkrellm-volume,
glpk, goofey, gscope, gsmlib, hypermail, hztty, icepref, FreeWnn dict
and server, ja-samba, some kde3 packages (thanks to Nick, Mark, Jan
and everyone), kttcp, leafnode, lhs, libtabe, links-gui, metacity,
mpg123-esound, mpg321, mpgtx, mtoolsfm, nbitools, various Perl
utilities, pcl-cvs, php4-mhash, various Python Unicode codecs, pyDict,
randread, the rox suite (thanks, Chris), sipcalc, sj3 dict and server,
star, stardic, su2, swill, sylpheed-claws, ttmkfdir, unicon,
windowmaker-desktop, wmmp3, wmsmixer, wmusic, xbindkeys, xcin, xclip,
xfm, yafc, yamt and yup.

Notable updated packages in the packages collection include: 
amavis-perl, ap-ssl, apache, apache6, asp2php, atk, audit-packages,
awka, bidwatcher, bind4, bind8, bozohttpd, canna lib and server,
canuum, cheesetracker, coda5 (client and server), conserver,
courier-imap, cpuflags, curl, cvsweb, dillo, doc++, eb, ekg, ethereal,
ettercap, exim, exim-html, frotz, fvwm2, galeon, geneweb, gkrellm,
gkrellm-xmms, gmplayer, gnumeric, gtkasp2php, htmlfix, id3v2, ipa,
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Michael Graff | 27 Jul 2002 00:56
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Donations for server upgrades


As many of you know, we are in the process of upgrading several
project machines.  So far, we have upgraded the anonymous CVS server
and FTP server to machines that can handle the capacity needed for
the 1.6 and 1.5.3 releases.

The hardware isn't cheap, and we're asking for donations to The NetBSD
Foundation to help offset this cost, and hope to raise enough for
other project machines to be upgraded as well.

Our target is $10,000 USD.  Over 60% of this goes to the public
servers.  The remainder will be used for other upgrades and
replacements as needed.

There are several ways to send us payments:

A check written out to "The NetBSD Foundation."

Please mail checks to:

        The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
        235 W48th Street, Apt 22A
        New York, NY 10036
        USA

We can also accept paypal transfers to paypal <at> netbsd.org

Please note that TNF is not yet a 501(c)(3) charity. We are working on
changing that but until then, donations are not tax deductible.
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Christos Zoulas | 30 Jul 2002 16:54

OpenBSD moderation removal


Greetings,

As some of you may have noticed, the NetBSD mailing lists have been
configured to selectively moderate postings originating from the
"openbsd.org" domain. This rule was instated to protect the NetBSD
mailing lists from abuse or denial of service attacks by an OpenBSD
developer (Theo De Raadt), who some time ago threatened to attack
the NetBSD project machines. In a reaction to this threat, domains
under his control were blackholed and moderation of the mailing
lists was activated.

Unfortunately this kind of moderation had the unfortunate side
effect of impeding communication between OpenBSD and NetBSD developers
(unnecessary rejection due to moderator absense, approval delays,
etc.). It was not our intent; it was assumed that most OpenBSD
developers would not post from their  <at> openbsd.org addresses, just
as most NetBSD developers do not use their  <at> netbsd.org addresses
to send mail.

At this point in time, we have decided that the inconvenience to the
OpenBSD developers greatly outweighs the risk of postings in poor
taste from a single individual, thus we are removing the selective
moderation against the "openbsd.org" domain effective immediately.
Please note that the NetBSD mailing lists have always been moderated
against spam since they allow postings from non-members. Such
moderation will remain in place.

We would like to remind our mailing list participants, that they
should construct sentences with greater care, refrain from using
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