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Alistair Crooks | 5 Jan 2008 09:05

The pkgsrc-2007Q4 Release


The pkgsrc-2007Q4 Release
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The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q4
release, which has support for more packages than previous releases. 
As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of
pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler
support.

At the same time, the pkgsrc-2007Q3 release has been deprecated, and
continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q4 release.

This release continues to celebrate the tenth anniversary of pkgsrc,
and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people
who have made pkgsrc the most portable packaging system in the world -
to all of the users, developers and supporters a very large "Thank
you" from all of us.

Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2007Q4 release are:

+ many, many packages have been updated to newer versions, to take
advantage of fixes and improved functionality.  The following versions
of packages are included in the pkgsrc-2007Q4 release:

	+ apache-2.2.6
	+ firefox-2.0.0.11
	+ gnome-2.20.2
	+ kde-3.5.8
	+ mysql-5.0.51
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Tim Rightnour | 9 Jan 2008 21:15
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New portmaster for NetBSD/ofppc

As of today I will be taking over the responsibility of portmaster for
the ofppc port.  I would like to thank the previous portmaster, Wolfgang
Solfrank for his excellent work in what was the original port of NetBSD to the
PowerPC.

As for the future direction of NetBSD/ofppc, the goal is for this port to run
on as many OpenFirmware and CHRP based PowerPC machines as possible.  Currently
the port is working on the Pegasos II.  Work is in-progress to port it to other
machines, such as CHRP-based IBM RS/6000's and the EFIKA.

---
Tim Rightnour <root <at> garbled.net>
NetBSD: Free multi-architecture OS http://www.netbsd.org/
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S.P.Zeidler | 14 Jan 2008 14:19
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www.NetBSD.org Tue Jan 15th

Dear all,

www.NetBSD.org is going to receive an OS upgrade tomorrow (Tue Jan 15th)
from 9:00 UTC onwards.

During that time, the non-static content of www.NetBSD.org will not be
available, nor will releng.NetBSD.org, gnats.NetBSD.org, www.pkgsrc.org or
mail-index.NetBSD.org be available.

The static WWW content will be available from the mirrors, and one mirror
will also be serving the dnsname for the duration of the upgrade.

best regards,
	spz
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S.P.Zeidler | 15 Jan 2008 17:55
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planned outage for mail.NetBSD.org Thu Jan 17

Dear all,

mail.NetBSD.org is going to receive an OS upgrade coming Thursday (Jan 17)
from 9:00 UTC onwards.

There will be no substitute, so you will have to live without fresh
NetBSD.org mail for about an hour. :)

best regards,
	spz
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Tim Rightnour | 18 Jan 2008 01:10
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NetBSD ported to the IBM 7044-270 (POWER3-II cpu)

Over the last few weeks, I have ported NetBSD/ofppc to the IBM 7044-270
POWER3-II based machine.  For those of you curious as to what one of those is:

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd&subtype=sm&appname
=pseries&htmlfid=897/ENUS7044-270
http://tinyurl.com/3af9dy (for above)

The machine has a 64bit POWER3-II CPU, which is what the modern POWER4 and
POWER5 chips were based on.  Currently, NetBSD only runs on this machine in
32bit mode.

The kernel config for the POWER3-based machines is GENERIC_B64.  It is
currently a separate config file because the 64bit bridge code in powerpc is
currently written to be incompatible with PPC_OEA.  I hope to fix that in the
coming months, and unify the kernels.  The stock version 1.8 ofwboot should
work on both however.

I'd like to thank Matt Thomas and Kevin Bowling for thier contributions in
making this port of NetBSD possible.

Some notes on the dmesg below:

1) I have only attempted single user mode at this point.
2) There is some kind of tty issue, so in order to boot single user mode, I had
to comment out tset from /root/.profile
3) The pciide isn't unsupported, there is no IDE header in the machine to
support.
4) At this point I have only netbooted the machine.  Some minor work is likely
required to get this working from disk.
5) Its extremely likely that a 7044-170 will also boot.
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Mark Weinem | 24 Jan 2008 13:21
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Joachim Schueth: beating the Colossus code breaking machine

Joachim Schueth has beaten the famous Colossus computer in a code-cracking 
competition in November 2007. Equipped with a NetBSD-powered laptop and 
profound knowledge of cryptography and the Ada programming language, 
Schueth has won the challenge. We talked with him about the historical and 
technical backgrounds of the Cipher Event and the tools he has used.

Read the interview on
http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/schueth-interview.html
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Hubert Feyrer | 29 Jan 2008 18:21
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Essential NetBSD 4.0/i386 Binary Packages + Install CD


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            Essential NetBSD 4.0/i386 Binary Packages + Install CD

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                                    What is it?

    The 3rd party software team of the NetBSD Project is proud to be able to
    provide a CD with the installation files for NetBSD 4.0/i386 and a
    collection of essential precompiled binary packages NetBSD 4.0/i386.
    The packages on this CD are based on the pkgsrc-2007Q4 branch.

    The CD's ISO image is available from:

      ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/4.0/i386pkg.iso.torrent
      ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/4.0/i386pkg.iso

    The CD is bootable and contains all the install files for
    the NetBSD 4.0/i386. To install binary packages from the CD,
    mount it under (say) /cdrom, then run:

      # PKG_PATH=/cdrom/packages/i386/All
      # export PKG_PATH
      # pkg_add -v bash
      # pkg_add -v kde
      # pkg_add -v firefox
      # pkg_add -v openoffice2
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