13:00
NetBSD

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of development of the NetBSD Operating System. The very first
commit to the NetBSD source tree ([
src/Makefile) was
by Chris Demetriou on Friday 21 March, 1993. Parties are being held in
various cities around the world, see the [
press
release for more details. Happy 10th Birthday, NetBSD!

18:31
NetBSD

Andrew Brown has committed changes to
-current implementing a new
``topdown'' uvm. With these
changes, the areas for heap growth and mmap(2)'ed allocations, which used to
be separate, are now one and the same, allowing either one to grow much larger
than before. As an example, on i386 it is now possible to mmap(2) over 2GB of
memory! Furthermore, the work leading up to this has already dramatically
reduced the number of entries in the kernel's map.



At the moment, this option is available for the
i386,
macppc,
prep and the PowerPC OEA based ports, but
particularly ports with small amounts of virtual memory such as the
acorn26 benefit from these changes.



For more details, please see the thread starting with Andrew's posting to the

current-users
MailingList.

15:00
NetBSD

Alistair Crooks has created the pkgsrc-1-6-1 branch from -current to
correspond with the upcoming release of
NetBSD 1.6.1. Like the previous
pkgsrc-1-6 branch, this branch provides a stable, known working set of
packages which will have only security and build fixes applied. It is
intended for systems where stability is preferred over bleeding-edge
packages, and also for slower systems which can find it difficult to
keep up with the flux of pkgsrc-current.
[p]
A few highlights of this branch are:
[p]

*
mozilla
1.2.1
*
phoenix
0.5
*
KDE
3.0.5.1
*
mplayer
0.90rc3
*
apache
1.3.27
*
apache
2.0.44

[p]
To check out the branch with anoncvs, run

cvs checkout -rnetbsd-1-6-1 pkgsrc

[p]
See The NetBSD
Packages Collection documentation for more information.
[p]
Please note that this branch is separate from the 1.6 pkgsrc
branch, as there have been some large structural improvements
since that time.

12:56
NetBSD

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that NetBSD 1.6.1 has been branched
and the release engineering process has begun. NetBSD 1.6.1 is a maintenance
(or patch) release for users of NetBSD 1.6, not to be confused with
NetBSD-current (which will become the
next major release). As a patch release, it is not branched off the head of
the CVS source tree, but instead includes all security fixes and patches
applied to the 1.6 branch.



A complete list of changes since 1.6 is available in src/doc/CHANGES-1.6.1 of
the branch, which can be checked out by passing the
<code>-rnetbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC1</code> flag to the cvs command: <code>cvs
-rnetbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC1 co src</code>.



Details on the release cycle and status information is available from
http://www.netbsd.org/releng/releng-1.6.html.

13:41
NetBSD

NetBSD at LW 2003.