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Jan Schaumann | 4 Mar 2005 18:59
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NetBSD and Xen


The recent release of NetBSD 2.0 marked a milestone in the development
of the world's most portable operating system.  Every new release of
NetBSD brings support for even more hardware platforms than the
release before.  But the 2.0 release included support for a remarkable
new platform: the Xen virtual machine monitor.  The NetBSD Foundation
is proud to announce the continued work and intensive improvement of
its support for Xen.

Xen supports virtualization of x86 hardware for complete separation of
virtual machine environments with only minimal decrease in
performance.  NetBSD/xen can run in both privileged and unprivileged
virtual machines under Xen 1.2, and in unprivileged virtual machines
under Xen 2.0.

Christian Limpach committed the initial port of NetBSD to Xen to the
NetBSD source repository on March 11th, 2004.  Since then, enormous
progress has been made, allowing the NetBSD Project to show their
commitment to their development efforts by deploying NetBSD/xen within
the project.

"We use virtualization with Xen every day on the foundation's own
servers," says Thor Simon, a developer and system administrator with
The NetBSD Foundation.  "It allows us to maintain multiple, isolated
environments on a single 1U server.  We aren't naive enough to think
that any system has perfect security; but Xen helps us isolate
critical systems from each other, and at the same time helps keep our
systems physically compact and easy to manage.  When you combine
virtualization with Xen with NetBSD's small size, code quality,
permissive license, and comprehensive set of security features, it's
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Alistair Crooks | 7 Mar 2005 18:32

Summary of Changes to the Packages Collection in February 2005

[For the full text of this email, please refer to the tech-pkg
mailing list - agc]

Summary of Changes to the Packages Collection in February 2005
==============================================================

By my calculations, at the end of February 2005, there were 5377
packages in the Packages Collection, up from 5331 the previous month,
a rise of 46.

Due to the problems discovered in the SHA1 algorithm - see

	http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html

the pkgsrc infrastructure has been changed to use multiple digest
algorithms for distfiles and distpatches, and all the distinfo files
in pkgsrc have been updated, where possible, to use multiple checksums.

Notable additions to the Packages Collection include:  ap2-auth-ldap,
beacon, blogbench, blur6ex, boost-build, boost-docs, boost-headers,
boost-libs, bsflite, cisco-mibs, courier-authlib, distmp3, exiv2,
firefox-gtk1, flphoto, fwbuilder, gaim-encryption,
ganglia-monitor-core, ganglia-webfrontend, gimp-rawphoto, gimp-ufraw,
gimp2-wideangle, goom, gtmess, hobbitclient, IRRToolSet, kftpgrabber,
libarchive, libassetml, libaura, libdfui, libgda-sqlite, libinstaller,
libquantum, logfinder, memcached, nss, p5-Array-Compare,
p5-Devel-Cycle, p5-HTTP-Cache-Transparent, p5-Kwiki-PagePrivacy,
p5-Lingua-EN-Numbers-Ordinate, p5-Lingua-Preferred, p5-Net-LMTP,
p5-Pod-Coverage, p5-Sub-Uplevel, p5-Test-Exception,
p5-Test-Memory-Cycle, p5-Test-Pod-Coverage, p5-Test-Taint,
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Alistair Crooks | 24 Mar 2005 17:51

The pkgsrc-2005Q1 Branch


The pkgsrc-2005Q1 Branch
========================

The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2005Q1
branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. 
As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of
pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler
support, and also for enhanced security.

At the same time, the pkgsrc-2004Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2005Q1 branch.

Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2005Q1 branch are:

+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  This includes

	o openoffice-1.1.4
	o xfce-4.2.1.1
	o mysql-4.1.10a
	o ruby-1.8.2
	o postgres-8.0.1
	o apache-2.0.53
	o xentools-2.0.3
	o openldap-2.2.20
	o perl-5.8.6
	o X.org-6.8.1
	o gnome-2.8.3
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