NetBSD

The NetBSD Project has
announced that it has
launched an international competition for the creation of a new logo. There
is a cash prize of US $100.00 for the winning entry. The successful logo will
also have wide exposure, featuring in all NetBSD material including, but not
limited to; the NetBSD.org web site, software media, apparel, and business
systems. The competition will close on February 29, 2004. The rules of the
competition, submission information and the design brief can be found in the

official announcement, which has already spawned some discussion on the
netbsd-advocacy and
current-users MailingLists.

NetBSD

NetBSD's Luke Mewburn
announced

today that it is now possible to cross-build XFree86 4.x on NetBSD-current
using the "build.sh" framework, taking advantage of such features as:
[ul]
* cross
compilation
* read-only source tree
* "unprivileged builds
[/ul]
You can find more details about the build.sh framework in Luke Mewburn and Matthew
Green's paper
and
presentation
on the topic at BSDCon 2003.

NetBSD

NetBSD's
Packages Collection aka
pkgsrc now has support for an experimental new framework called ``
pkgviews''.
This framework, finally allowing multiple versions of one package to co-exist
without conflicts (among other great features), was first proposed by Alistair
Crooks at
EuroBSDCon
2002 and has been integrated into pkgsrc by Johnny C. Lam, who just posted
a User's
guide to the tech-pkg MailingList.

NetBSD
NetBSD's Christopher Sekiya announced on New Year's Eve that he committed the final bits for Indigo (IP20) support to
the NetBSD/sgimips Port.
Both NFS root and local root now boot multi-user. Please see his
message to the port-sgimips MailingList for details.

Zaitcev: Yes, I was aware that Linux ran first on the JavaStation. The posting in question was not intended to demean your work in any way (if you took it that way, then I apologize) or even remotely imply that NetBSD was the first to run on the JavaStation or that the NetBSD port is any ``better'' than the Linux port.

When there are any news about NetBSD, then I generally post them to all websites that I believe might have an interest in them -- you may call it ``cheap publicity'', but while it is publicity (that's, after all, the reason I posted it), I don't think it's cheap.