Summary of Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in December 2002

=====================================================================
[For a complete list of changes, please refer to the mail on the

current-users mailing list - agc]
By my calculations, at the end of December 2002, there were 3402

packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 3327 the previous

month, a rise of 75.
Notable additions to the packages collection include:  arj, avi-xmms,

blackbook, cfengine, cfengine2-doc, cgoban-java, covered-current,

dict-dictionaries, docbook-xsl, dptutil, eukleides, ex, exiftags,

fakeroot, fontconfig, fooseti, gdsreader, gimageview, gp-autpgrp,

gp-factint, gp-fplsa, gp-lag, gpaint, gpsdrive, grhino, gtetrinet,

gtk-systrace, gtkgo, GutenMark, GutenMark-words, hatari, hptools,

ifile, ifile-procmail, imapproxy, irssi-icb, isync, lbrate, libares,

libast, libexif-gtk, libgphoto2, libsamplerate, MesaDemos,

metakit-lib, mktemp, nail, ninja, nomarch, novawm, openc++,

p5-IO-Null, p5-IO-Zlib, p5-Mac-Macbinary, palmosemulator, pcf2bdf,

pekwm, pircbot, prayer, pv, pwgen, py-gnuplot, py-metakit, py-pyrex,

py-rpy, py-xmltools, quirc, roxirc, scrollz, soup, sweep, tcpreplay,

tkpasman, tzc, ucl, unzoo, vifm, waimea, wampager, wdm, xaric,

xdvipresent, xeukleides, Xft2, xgap, xpk, zephyr, zephyr-mode,

zope25-RDFSummary, and zope25-ZWeatherApplet.
Notable updates to packages include:  abcde, analog, anjuta, apcupsd,

apla, aspell, atari800, atk, autoconf, automake, balsa, bbappconf,

bbpager, bidwatcher, bind9-current, binkd, bins, bison, bkpupsd,

bochs, bonobo, bonobo-activation, bonobo-conf, bsdpak, bug-buddy,

buildtool, calc, Canna-dict, Canna-lib, Canna-server,

Canna-server-bin, cdbkup, cjk-lyx, coconut, cpuflags, createbuildlink,

cups, curl, cyrus-imapd, cyrus-sasl, cyrus-sasl2, dact, dap, dctc,

dc_gui, dict-client, dict-server, digest, djbdns, dnstop, dopewars,

dx, easytag, ee, eel, eel2, efax-gtk, eog, eog2, etcupdate, eterm,

ethereal, everybuddy-gnome, evolution, exctags, exim,...
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A new regional list, regional-jp@netbsd.org, has been created.  This

list is oriented toward English-speaking NetBSD users in Japan, and so

the preferred language is English.
The list will focus on:
	1. Technical and social gatherings in Japan that are accessable

	to English-speaking NetBSD users.
	2. Questions and help with using NetBSD in a Japanese

	environment.
	3. General discussion of NetBSD use in Japan.
NOTE: you can't use Japanese (multibyte) characters on the list since

the list manager is configured so that those mails are filtered as

spam.  Use Romaji (e.g., "nihongo", "Tokyo", "kaihatsu", etc.) instead.
Enjoy!
Masao

The pkgsrc-2008Q1 Release

=========================
The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q1

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-2007Q4 release has been deprecated, and

continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2008Q1 release.
With more than ten years of pkgsrc development behind us, 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-2008Q1 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-2008Q1 release:
	+ apache-2.2.8

	+ firefox-2.0.0.13

	+ gnome-2.20.2

	+ kde-3.5.9

	+ mysql-5.0.51

	+ openoffice-2.3.1nb5

	+ opera-9.26

	+ postgresql-8.3.0

	+ ruby-1.8.6.114

	+ samba-3.0.28a

	+ seamonkey-1.1.9

	+ wireshark-1.0.0

	+ zope-3.3.1
+ other changes include

	+ we have revamped our mono package, and added a number of

	  other useful mono-based packages

	+ the addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny

	  packages such as 3proxy, bash-completion, bsdav, ccid,

	  chrpath, clawsker, clive, cmconvert, CoolKey, cut, cvsclone,

	  dansguardian, dmsdos, dvtm, dynamips, ejabberd, ewipe,

	  gnome-platform, gnome-sharp, gtksourceview2, highlight, im,

	  isc-dhcp4, libarena, libdatrie, libdmenu, libfetch, libixp,

	  libmp3splt, libotf, libspf2, libssh2, libthai, metauml,

	  migemo, mono-addins, monodevelop, monodoc, mopac, msynctool,

	  ossp-js, pcc-current, pdcurses, portmap, postgresql-8.3,

	  puppet, rtf2latex2e, ruby-activeresource, SDL_Pango,

	  sigscheme, slock, smirk, unfs3, wbxml2, xback...
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Summary of Changes to the Packages Collection in January 2004

=============================================================
[For a more in-depth list of changes, please refer to the

current-users mailing list - agc]
By my calculations, at the end of January 2004, there were 4380

packages in the NetBSD Packages Collection, up from 4310 the previous

month, a rise of 70.
Notable additions include:  amule, awhois, blender-doc, chmlib,

connect, cuetools, cyrus-imapd, cyrus-saslauthd, darkice, dccserver,

destroy, devilspie, doclifter, dvorakng, edict, elinks04, elvis,

elvis-x11, enriched2html, evolution, ezm3, fastfs, fp-netbsd-ws,

fprot-workstation-bin, fragroute, gnome-accessibility, gnome-base,

gnome-extras, gpg2dot, gtk2-extras, heimdal, icbirc, imake, ion-devel,

ion-dock, ispell-russian-io, jday, jgrasp, kanjidic, kmplayer,

libcddb, libcdio, libebml, libksba, libksba, libpqxx, libpqxx-doc,

librsvg2-gtk2, libshout, micro_httpd, mozilla-gtk2, mserv-devel,

NeoPop-SDL, nologinmsg, oidentd, p5-Net-Netmask, p5-SOAP-Lite,

php-jpgraph, pnet, pnetC, pnetlib, pthread-sem, py-libxml2,

py-libxslt, py-xml, quake3server, quake3server-excessive,

quake3server-ra3, quake3server-ut, rhythmbox, samba, swfdec-gtk2,

sylpheed-claws-dillo-viewer, sylpheed-claws-ghostscript-viewer,

sylpheed-claws-image-viewer, sylpheed-claws-trayicon, tme, treecc,

unison, upx, wmctrl, wv2, xawtv, xchm, xfce4-extras, xfce4-menueditor,

XFree86, XFree86-clients, XFree86-docs, XFree86-fonts100dpi,

XFree86-fonts75dpi, XFree86-fontsCyrillic, XFree86-fontsEncodings,

XFree86-fontserver, XFree86-fontsMisc, XFree86-fontsScalable,

XFree86-libs, XFree86-man, XFree86-server, xine-arts, xine-esound,

and xnodecor.
Notable updates include:  abiword, adns, adobe-cmaps, amule,

anomy-sanitizer, ap2-perl, apache2, arphic-ttf, arts, atari800,

audacity, audit-packages, automake, awstats, baekmuk-ttf, balsa2,

bittorrent, blender, bmake, boolean, ccache, clamav, cooledit,

coreutils, cpuflags, createbuildlink, cssc, cucipop, cue, cups, c...
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Hello,
on behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to

announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 2.
Binaries and ISOs are available from
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0_RC2
The list of changes from the 3.0 release is available in the release

notes, online at

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0_RC2/i386/INSTALL.html#Changes...
There have been many fixes since the previous release candidate, RC1.

The most important ones are:
- ICH9 support in wm(4).

- Enhanced Speedstep support for VIA C7/Eden and amd64.

- many bugfixes for IPF.

- FAST_IPSEC fixes.

- wpi(4) bugfix.

- proplib local DoS fix.

- fix procfs exposing the real path of an executable inside chroot.

- msdosfs bugfix.

- fix of crash dumps on sparc64.

- ACPI SCI (system control interrupt) bug fix, addresses interrupt storms

  seen on some machines.
The complete description is found in the CHANGES-4.0 file in the release

tree, online at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0_RC2/CHANGES-4.0

(Scroll down to the end of the file and see the entries between

the RC1 and RC2 ones.)
If you want to build NetBSD 4.0_RC2 from source, cvs up your source

tree to "netbsd-4-0-RC2", or just along the "netbsd-4" branch.

Alternatively, you can download the source sets from the URL above,

under the source/ directory.
Please note that in this release candidate, the sparc platform has been

accidentally omitted. This will be corrected in the next RC cycle. We

plan to release another release candidate next week.
Please help us test these release candidates as much as possible

to make NetBSD 4.0 a solid release.
Thanks,	the NetBSD Release Engineering team.

Hi,
ISC announced the following two maintenance slots for updates to=20

two of their routers:
Thursday, October 9th 06:00 Pacific

All of 950 Charter (aka ISC HQ) will be offline for approximately 10 minute=

s.
Thursday, October 9th 20:00 Pacific

Expect severe disruption to ISC's SF Bay Area network for a minimum of=20

15 minutes, and possibly as long as 30 minutes. Traffic to guest servers/

services will be rerouted as best they can through their other SFBA locatio=

ns=20

but all ISC services will be disrupted to some level during this maintenanc=

e.
Cheers,

     Silke

With the release of NetBSD 5.0, I have prepared a short presentation giving

an overview of the new features and performance improvements that 5.0

provides. The slides can be found at the URLs below for your perusal.
Many thanks,

Andrew
http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/           (HTML format, browseable)

http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50.pdf        (Adobe PDF, printable)

I'm sad to announce that after 10 years of NNTP access to mailing lists,

I'm going to shutdown the service.  I just can't justify dedicating more

resources to the service, given that there are public services at a much

grander scale that do everything, but just much better.
Personally I think I'll be doing casual browsing of mailing lists via

gmane.org.  I recommend taking a look at it.  They offer two different

HTTP interfaces as well as NNTP (including posting, if I understand

correctly).
I'm planning to take news.gw.com offline at the end of December 31st.
Regards,
Kimmo Suominen

Global Wire Oy

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The NetBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the generous donation of

two machines from Sun Microsystems for the purpose of advancing the

development of The NetBSD Packages Collection under Solaris.
The NetBSD Packages Collection, also known as ``pkgsrc'', is a

framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other

UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 5400 packages.  The

pkgsrc framework was derived from FreeBSD's ports system, and

initially developed for NetBSD only, but has since been ported to a

number of operating systems with Solaris being the oldest non-NetBSD

platform supported by pkgsrc.
Sun Microsystems recognizes the NetBSD Project's portability efforts

and noticed the various advantages of pkgsrc's cross-platform package

management capabilities.  The results of the bulk-builds run by

various volunteers show that already there are over 2000 packages that

build flawlessly under Solaris.
In order to support and further the development efforts of the NetBSD

Packages team, to promote the build of binary packages for Solaris 8,

Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 and to enhance the support of the Sun Forte

Compiler chain, Sun Microsystems has donated one SunBlade 1000 with

2x600mhz SPARCIII processors and one Dell Precision 2650 with 2 x 3GHz

Xeon Processors to the NetBSD Project.  Both machines are running

Solaris 8;  Sun also provided licenses for SunOne Studio 9.
``We are very glad to have received this donation,'' said Jan

Schaumann, a NetBSD developer and System Administrator at Stevens

Institute of Technology, where the machines are hosted. ``Trying to

maintain a cross-platform environment requires a rock-solid and stable

package management system.''
``The NetBSD Packages collection now runs on every major Unix platform

and allows system administrators to keep thousands of third-party

applications easily up-to-date,'' he continues.  ``Having these two

machines available to continually bulk-build all availa...
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Hello,
on behalf of NetBSD's release engineering team I would like to provide

you with an update on our current estimated timelines for the

NetBSD 2.1 and NetBSD 3.0 releases:
31th of August 2005:

- Release of NetBSD 2.1 Release Candidate 1
10 of September 2005:

- Release of NetBSD 2.1 Release Candidate 2 or NetBSD 2.1
17 of September 2005:

- Release of NetBSD 2.1 if the release didn't happen on the 10th
28 of September 2005:

- Release of NetBSD 3.0 Release Candidate 1
October 2005:

- Release of further NetBSD 3.0 release candidates, 3.0 release
Please note that these dates are estimates and subject to change

slightly as the actual release occurs.
	Kind regards
--=20

Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthi=

as/

[For a full list of changes in October, please refer to the tech-pkg

mailing list - agc]
Summary of Changes to the Packages Collection in October 2005

=============================================================
By my calculations, at the end of September 2005, there were 5657

packages in the Packages Collection, up from 5558 the previous month,

a rise of 99.
Notable additions include:  audio/glurp, audio/gtkpod, audio/qsynth,

audio/streamripper, benchmarks/forkbomb, biology/pymol,

comms/synce-dccm, comms/synce-librapi2, comms/synce-libsynce,

comms/synce-rra, comms/synce-serial, databases/mysql5-client,

databases/mysql5-server, databases/qdbm, devel/distccmon-gnome,

devel/distccmon-gtk, devel/gnustep-objc-lf2, devel/gsoap,

devel/intel-iscsi, devel/libmemcache, devel/libmimedir,

devel/p5-File-chdir, devel/p5-IO-Pager, devel/p5-Term-Screen,

devel/sysexits, editors/heme, emulators/ski, emulators/z26,

games/blobwars, games/fortunes-calvin, games/fortunes-futurama,

games/fortunes-h2g2, games/InterLOGIC, games/teg,

graphics/digikam-doc, graphics/exifprobe, graphics/gimp24,

graphics/kimdaba, graphics/ocrad, graphics/veusz, graphics/vnc2swf,

ham/gnuradio-audio-oss, ham/gnuradio-core, ham/gnuradio-examples,

ham/gnuradio-gsm, ham/gnuradio-howto, ham/gnuradio-usrp,

ham/gnuradio-wxgui, ham/usrp, lang/mpd, lang/wsbasic,

mail/dkim-milter, mail/evolution-exchange, mail/gotmail, math/fftwf,

math/p5-Math-GMP, math/qalculate-bases, math/qalculate-currency,

math/qalculate-units, meta-pkgs/gnuradio, misc/kmemaid,

misc/openoffice2-bin, misc/pyqt_memaid, multimedia/gst-plugins-xvid,

multimedia/xfmedia, net/balance, net/chksniff, net/dnsmasq,

net/gofish, net/mydns-mysql, net/mydns-pgsql, net/p5-IP-Country,

net/p5-Net-Ident, net/php-xmlrpc, pkgtools/verifypc,

security/ap-modsecurity, security/dirb, security/p5-Crypt-DH,

security/p5-Net-SSH, security/secpanel, shells/9rc,

sysutils/855resolution, sysutils/bacula-client, sysutils/bacula-doc,

sysutils/fs-kit, sysutils/xenkernel20, sysutils/xfce4-fsg...
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		 NetBSD Security Advisory 2006-008

		 =================================
Topic:		Malformed ELF interpreter causes system crash
Version:	NetBSD-current:	source prior to March 17, 2006

		NetBSD 3.0:	affected

		NetBSD 2.1:	affected

		NetBSD 2.0.*:	affected

		NetBSD 2.0:	affected
Severity:	Any local user can crash the system
Fixed:		NetBSD-current:		March 17, 2006

		NetBSD-3-0 branch:	March 20, 2006

						(3.0.1 will include the fix)

		NetBSD-3   branch:	March 20, 2006

		NetBSD-2-1 branch:	March 20, 2006

						(2.1.1 will include the fix)

		NetBSD-2-0 branch:	March 20, 2006

						(2.0.4 will include the fix)

		NetBSD-2   branch:	March 20, 2006
Abstract

========
A malformed copy of ld.elf_so, or any other elf interpreter, can cause

a NULL pointer deference in the kernel.
Technical Details

=================
The elf_load_file() function assumed that an interpreter always has a

PT_LOAD section defined in it's header.  That is not necessarily the

case, as an attacker can trivially create an interpreter that

does not have that, and a binary that uses that interpreter.
The netbsd-2, netbsd-2-0 and netbsd-2-1 branches are only vulnerable

if the kernel is compiled with the USE_TOPDOWN_VM option which is

not set by default in GENERIC kernels.
Solutions and Workarounds

=========================
For all NetBSD versions, you need to obtain fixed kernel sources,

rebuild and install the new kernel, and reboot the system.
The fixed source may be obtained from the NetBSD CVS repository.
The following instructions briefly summarise how to upgrade your

kernel.  In these instructions, replace:
  ARCH     with your architecture (from uname -m), and

  KERNCONF with the name of your kernel configuration file.
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install the kernel:
        # cd src

        # cvs update -d -P sys/kern/exec_elf32.c

	# ./build.sh kernel=KERNCONF

	# mv /netbsd /netbsd.old

	# cp sys/arch/ARCH/comp...
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NetBSD achieves permanent charity status

========================================
The NetBSD Foundation has been granted permanent 501(c)(3) charity status

under United States law. The Foundation has been a 501(c)(3) charity since

2004, but previously the status was given under an advanced ruling period,

i.e. it was of limited time. The permanent charity status is also known as

170(b)(1)(A)(vi) [1].
To achieve the permanent "public charity" status, we needed to prove that

we are publicly funded by going through the financial activity of the past

5 years and filing the necessary forms. Lex Wennmacher, Martin Husemann,

and Christos Zoulas spent quite a few weekends going through all the

numbers and completing the forms, and we are happy to report that the IRS

accepted our paperwork.
Being a public charity is important to us, as it means that we are eligible

to receive employer matching donations, as well as to enjoy the most

beneficial tax treatment.
Jared D. McNeill

The NetBSD Foundation
[1] http://bestpractices.cof.org/community/ViewStandard.cfm?itemNumber=901
About NetBSD:
NetBSD, a free, secure, and highly portable descendant of the BSD UNIX

family, is one of the oldest open source operating systems. It is

available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop

systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced

features make it excellent in both production and research environments;

its source is freely available under an unencumbering business-friendly

open source license. More information is available at

http://www.NetBSD.org/.

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NetBSD Quarterly Status Report
NetBSD is an actively developed operating system. With fifty seven

different system architectures in total and binary support of 53

architectures in our last official release (NetBSD 3.0), our widely

portable Packages Collection "pkgsrc" and large userbase there is a lot

going on within the project. In order to allow our users to follow the

most important changes over the last few months, we provide a brief

summary in these official status reports on a regular basis. These

status reports, released with irregular regularity, are suitable for

reproduction and publication in part or in whole as long as the source

is clearly indicated.
This report summarizes the changes within NetBSD during the first three

months of 2006.
- -Jan Schaumann <jschauma@NetBSD.org>
January 2006 - March 2006:
Administrative:

	- New Developers [20060401]
Miscellaneous:

	- NetBSD Internals book added [20060128]

	- Permission to Incorporate POSIX Material [20060215]

	- New NetBSD flyers and posters [20060312]

	- Developer interviews [20060401]

	- NetBSD on the road
pkgsrc:

	- pkgsrcCon 2006 coming up

	- Changes to the Packages Collection in December 2005 [20060131]

	- Changes to the Packages Collection in January 2006 [20060223]

	- New mailing list for pkgsrc users [20060224]

	- pkgsrc-2006Q1 branched [20060331]
Ports:

	- cobalt: New Restore CD build script [20060401]

	- ews4800mips: first binary snapshot [20060109]

	- evbmips: support for many new platforms [20060327]

	- ia64: imported into source tree

	- prep: IBM RS/6000 7024 Support added [20060223]

	- prep: new portmaster [20060306]

	- sparc: XFree86 in 16 and 24bit [20060228]

	- sparc64: new bootloader required [20060130]

	- sparc64: support for Atheros wlan devices [20060302]

	- Xen3 domU support [20060322]
Security:

	- Security Advisories 2006-001 through 2006-005, 2006-007,

	  2006-008, 2006-010 released [20060329]
Technical:

	- UDF ...
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Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in March 2002.

========================================================
[Apologies for the lateness of this summary - agc]
60 packages were added in March 2002, whilst 4 were removed, so

the number of packages at the beinning of April 2002 was 2729, up

from 2673 at the end of February 2002..
The main change to the packages collection, apart from these 60

packages, was the upgrade of png to version 1.2.1. In order to

keep track of binary packages which may be installed, we had to

bump all the "dependent" packages. My thanks to Fred Bruckman

for doing this work. It is also the reason this "changes" report

takes a different format to all the previous ones, since it is more

than 100KB in length.
Notable additions to the Packages Collection include:  an, arcem, atk,

atlc, bbconf, bbpager, centericq (funny spelling), chrony, claraocr,

cn2jp, cpuburn, db4, electric, ffmpeg, glib2, gnometoaster, gpgme,

graphviz, gtk2, icebreaker, ivtools, kdeartwork, latd, mew-xemacs,

monafonts, mp32ogg, mrproject, ms-ttf, ndtpd, net-snmp-current, nsd,

ooqstart, various perl5 modules, pango, pure-ftpd, various ruby

modules, SDL_ttf, wmcpuload, XaoS, xemacs-21, xmbdfed, xplanet

(thanks, Andrew), yencode and ysm.
Notable updates to the Packages Collection include:  abiword-personal,

adzap, afterstep, analog, ap-dav, apache2, apsfilter, atk, bbkeys,

bidwatcher, bind 8 and 9, bison, blackbox, bzip2, cdparanoia,

cervisia, control-center, cpuflags, csound, ctwm, curl, cvsgraph,

ddclient, eb, etcupdate, ethereal, evilwm, exctags, fdgw, ffmpeg,

fileutils, freetds, frotz, fvwm2, gaim, galeon, gentoo, ggv,

ghostscript, glib2, gnome-libs, gnucap, gnucash, gnumeric, gqmpeg,

graphviz, gtkam, hanterm, htdig, hylafax, icecast, imlib, ircII,

irssi, less, libaudiofile, libtool (thanks, Nick), libungif, libusb,

maketool, memtest86, mkttfdir, mlterm, mmix, mp3blaster, ms-ttf, mtr,

mutt-devel, mysql, nethack (thanks, Pooka), netpbm, netsaint, nidentd,

ns-remote, nxtvepg, oct...
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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

Ulla Sandberg
Organization Committee

Anita Nilsson, UniForum Marknadskonsult

Jan Saell, Irial
Overview

The NordU program committee solicits papers on topics related to UNIX and

UNIX like systems and UNIX system administration. We especially encourage

papers on novel techniques, architectures and methodologies.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Security

  Security Audits

  Common Problems

  Mandatory Access Controls

Operating Systems

  Virtual Memory

  File Systems

  Device Drivers

Open Source/ Free UNIX

  Open Source projects

  Open Source methodologies

  Open Source case studies

  Economic Impacts

High Performance Computing

  Clustering

  the GRID

High Availability

  Clustering

  Storage Technologies

  Checkpoint Techniques.

Mobile Computing

  IPv6

  802.11b

  BlueTooth

Software Development

  Languages

  Development Environments

  Change Management

Interoperability

  Windows

  Standards

Storage Area Network

  Interconnects

  UNIX drivers

  software
Paper Submissions

Submissions should be full papers of about 4000-6000 words. The maximum

submission length is 14 single-spaced A4 pages, including figures, tables,

and references, using an 11pt font. Submitted papers should b...
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Hello,
we would like to encourage people to download the ISO images of the

brand new NetBSD 3.0.1 release via the BitTorrent peer to peer protocol.

This will distribute the load and provide everybody with as much

bandwidth as possible.
Here is a quick guide on how to use BitTorrent for this purpose:
1.) The BitTorrent Client
    If you already have NetBSD running, please install the "rtorrent"

    package from "pkgsrc/net/rtorrent".
    Clients for other operating systems can be downloaded here:
	http://www.bittorrent.com/	(Windows, Mac OX, Linux, etc.)

	http://azureus.sourceforge.net/	(Windows, Mac OX, Linux, etc.)

	http://utorrent.com/		(Windows)
2.) Downloading The "Torrent File"
    To use BitTorrent for downloading you need a torrent file which

    identifies the file you want to download. These files are small

    (only a few kilobytes) and downloaded via normal protocols like HTTP

    or FTP. The torrent files for NetBSD 3.0.1 can be found here:
	http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/torrents/
    Just download the torrent files for the ISO images you want to get.
3.) Starting The Download
    Once you have the torrent file you can start the download. If you use

    the "rtorrent" client under NetBSD simply run this command in the

    directory with the torrent files you downloaded before:
	rtorrent *.torrent
    The ISO images will be downloaded to the current directory afterwards.

    The GUI based clients (e.g. BitTorrent for Windows) usually have a

    menu item called "Open torrent file" which you can use to start the

    download.
4.) Uploading To Other Peers
    After your BitTorrent client has finished the download it will continue

    to upload data from the downloaded file to other BitTorrent clients.

    Please keep your client running for a while if possible to support other

    people's downloads.
5.) Legal Considerations
    BitTorrent and other peer to peer protocols are often used to transfer

    copyright protected material...
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Hi,
it is my pleasure to announce that the third release candidate for NetBSD

3.1 has been released.  Binaries and ISO's are available on the following

URL:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-1-RC3/200609170000Z/
or one of the releng mirrors: http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#ftp-releng
For those who want to build NetBSD 3.1_RC3 from source, the CVS tag is

"netbsd-3-1-RC3".  Alternatively, you can download source sets from the

above URL, under the source/ directory.
As usual, you can find an overview of major changes since the NetBSD 3.0

release in the INSTALL.* documents in each architecture's directory.  A

complete list of all changes can be found in the CHANGES-3.1 file.
Improvements since the second release candidate include:

+ fixed recent security issues with BIND, OpenSSL and X11 font handling

+ added "xm shutdown" support for Xen3 domU's

+ honor the user's umask when creating UNIX domain sockets

+ fixed some Xen timing and clock issues

+ fixed serial console on the second serial port of sparc64 machines

+ fixed DHCP in sysinst on 64-bit archs
We anticipate this to be the final release candidate for the NetBSD

3.1 release, so, if no serious problems arise, we expect NetBSD 3.1

to be released on October 2.
Thanks again for your patience and your help for making NetBSD 3.1 a

good release!
	Geert

At or after 18:00UTC today, July 23, 2009, there will be one or more

brief outages of ftp.netbsd.org as we prepare to rearrange services

using new and upgraded hardware.
Thor