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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/.
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, ...
[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, ...
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, ...
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, ...
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2006-008
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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 ...-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ...
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 ...
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 ...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
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)
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 be in ...
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%20Between%20T... 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, 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
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, ...
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,
SilkeAt 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
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
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/
On behalf of the NetBSD developers, I am pleased to announce that
NetBSD 5.0.2 is now available for download. NetBSD 5.0.2 is the second
critical/security update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents
a selected subset of fixes deemed critical for security or stability
reasons. All users are encouraged to upgrade.
For full details, please see the release notes at:
http://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-5/NetBSD-5.0.2.html
ISO images can be downloaded using BitTorrent, and we encourage users
who wish to install via ISO images to take advantage of this, as the
images are well seeded.
http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/torrents/
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 5.0.2 are available for download
at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP,
HTTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at:
http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/
We are very grateful to all of those who donated during the 2007 fund
drive, which brought us many of the great advances made in the last two
years. We would like to remind everyone that we are in the middle of
a fund drive with a target of 60,000 USD. For more information on how
you can help NetBSD reach this goal, see
http://www.NetBSD.org/donations/
The NetBSD Foundation would like to thank all those who have
contributed code, hardware, documentation, funds, colocation for our
servers, web pages and other documentation, release engineering, and
other resources over the years. More information on the people who
make NetBSD happen is available at:
http://www.NetBSD.org/people/
We would like to especially thank the University of California at
Berkeley and the GNU Project for particularly large subsets of code
that we use. We would also like to thank the Internet Systems
Consortium Inc., the Network Security Lab at Columbia University's
Computer Science Department, and Ludd (Luleaa Academic Computer
Society) computer society at Luleaa University of Technology for
current colocation ...
