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Jan Schaumann | 2 Feb 2009 17:17
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Preparing for Summer of Code 2009


Recently, Google announced that there will be another instance of their
popular ``Summer of Code'' program in 2009.  The NetBSD Project has
participated in this program as a mentoring organization since its
conception in 2005 [1], and hopes again to be fortunate enough to take
part in this year's iteration.

As part of our preparation for the Summer of Code 2009, we have begun
reviewing and updating our list of suggested projects[2] and would like to
invite all interested students to likewise begin their research and start
discussions with the possible mentors as well as on our public mailing
lists.

Stay tuned for further updates!

[1] For a detailed summary of NetBSD's participation in 2008, please see
http://www.netbsd.org/foundation/press/soc2008-summary.html

[2] http://www.NetBSD.org/contrib/soc-projects.html
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Soren Jacobsen | 11 Feb 2009 04:43
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NetBSD 5.0_RC2 binaries available for download

On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am proud to announce
that the second release candidate of NetBSD 5.0 is now available for
download.

Since RC1, 103 tickets were pulled up.  Interested readers can find the
details of these tickets in src/doc/CHANGES-5.0.  RC2 represents a great
deal of progress over RC1, but with that amount of change, increased
time for testing is required.  To put it bluntly, there will definitely
be a third release candidate.  We are aware of a number of
release-blocking issues, but it is important that we get a jump on
testing the many changes made since RC1.

Binaries of RC2 can be downloaded from

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5-0-RC2/

Of course, those already tracking the netbsd-5 branch by source should
continue to to so, and the netbsd-5-0-RC2 tag is available if you prefer
to check out the RC2 sources specifically.

I'd like to thank all those who have helped so far in testing and
providing feedback.  Please keep up the good work, it is very much
appreciated!

Enjoy,
Soren
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