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Mark Weinem | 14 Mar 2008 02:31
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More interviews about packaging systems

The second and finishing article with interviews about pkgsrc and 
alternative packaging systems is available. This issue also provides talks 
about MidnightBSD mports, GoboLinux and Zero Install:

  http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/pkgsrc-interviews.html
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Hubert Feyrer | 19 Mar 2008 00:32
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Inviting students to NetBSD and Google's Summer of Code


  * Inviting students to NetBSD and Google's Summer of Code

Google is doing another round of their Summer of Code project, where the idea 
is to attract students to write code for Open Source projects during the 
summer, instead of having them flip burgers. For the fourth time, the NetBSD 
project has been selected as mentoring organization in the Summer of Code 
project!

Prospective students that are interested in pursuing projects for NetBSD 
are welcome to start thinking about what projects they'd like to do, and 
discuss things on our public mailing lists. We have lists of suggest GSoC 
projects and (harder!) general projects which can serve as inspiration:

 	http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html
 	http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/projects.html

Also, please see our NetBSD Project Application/Proposal HowTo for information 
that we'd like to see answered in the eventual project proposals sent to 
Google:

 	http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-application.html

This information helps us to rank the project proposals we'll get, and to put 
your project on the best spot! If you have any questions, please contact 
NetBSD's team of Summer of Code administrators at 
communication-exec <at> NetBSD.org.

  - Hubert Feyrer
    The NetBSD Project
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Alistair Crooks | 20 Mar 2008 07:57
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The NetBSD project celebrates its fifteenth anniversary


The NetBSD Project celebrates its 15th anniversary!

The Internet, March 20 -- This week marks the fifteenth anniversary of
the beginning of development of the NetBSD Operating System, one of
the oldest actively maintained, freely-available operating systems. 
NetBSD runs on everything from embedded systems to desktop
workstations, from handhelds to big-iron servers, and is developed by
the NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/ - one of the first Open
Source projects.

The first commits were made to the NetBSD source code repository on
March 21, 1993, and the first release of the NetBSD Operating System,
NetBSD 0.8, was announced on USENET shortly thereafter.  Throughout
the past fifteen years, NetBSD has increased the portability and security
of the 4.4BSD operating system on which NetBSD was based, and added
support for new processor and system families, while enhancing the
system's performance to such an extent that NetBSD has become known as
the most portable operating system in the world. Innovations in the
storage, networking and virtualization arena have been added, and much
work has been done recently on performance, especially with multi-core
and multi-threaded machines in mind.

NetBSD 4.0, the latest release, includes support for most major
current processor architectures, including x86, x86_64, SPARC,
ARM, M68K, MIPS, PowerPC, and SH, as well as several legacy processor
architectures.  It supports 13 different system architectures.

The next major release, NetBSD 5.0, will continue the tradition of the
last fifteen years by providing additional features and hardware
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Jan Schaumann | 25 Mar 2008 06:21
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Summer of Code applications period started


 * Summer of Code applications period started

For the fourth consecutive time in a row, the NetBSD Project is proud to
be one of the mentoring organizations in Google's Summer of Code
program.  The student applications period has started, and we would like
to encourage interested students to submit their applications to
participate and help make NetBSD even better!

Working with our mentoring NetBSD developers on a complex project offers
an exciting opportunity for all students to not only get paid to gain
valuable software engineering experience, to network with a large
community of professionals or to lay the foundation for future research,
but it's also a fun way to contribute to and even become part of a large
Open Source project.

A number of concrete suggestions for Summer of Code projects within
NetBSD is available at

  http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html

All projects there are rated with an estimated level of difficulty and
appropriate contacts.  We encourage all students to discuss their
proposal prior to submission on our public mailing lists, with the
primary contact listed on that page or on #netbsd-code on IRC.

Note that we also invite students to submit proposals for projects that
are not explicitly listed on that page.

Some of the questions to which we would like to see the answers in your
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