NetBSD Packages Collection releases a new branch!
On behalf of the pkgsrc team, Alistair
Crooks announced today that a new pkgsrc-2004Q1 branch of the NetBSD Packages Collection was created last night, and the freeze on committing to the
pkgsrc trunk is now over. This branch, which includes some 4518
actively-maintained and supported packages, introduces a self-hosted pkgsrc
infrstructure as part of the ever growing support of even more operating
systems as well as a number of other goodies. Please see Alistair's message to the netbsd-announce mailing list for details.

NetBSD 2.0 Release Engineering Process has begun

James Chacon of the NetBSD Release Engineering team has announced that the Release Engineering process for the much awaited NetBSD 2.0 release has begun! At this time, the expected final release is scheduled for the end of May 2004. Please see James' message to the netbsd-announce mailing list for details.

Interix (Windows) support added to NetBSD's pkgsrc
Preliminary support for Interix, a UNIX-like environment for Microsoft
Windows 2000, XP, and 2003, has been added to pkgsrc. The support is still
new and incomplete, but it is now possible to bootstrap pkgsrc and
install simple packages. Interix is part of Microsoft's Windows Services
for UNIX package. See Todd Vierling's email to
the tech-pkg mailing list for more information.

NetBSD pkgsrc Conference!

pkgsrcCon is a technical conference for
people working on the [url NetBSD Packages
Collection (pkgsrc), focusing on existing technologies, research projects,
and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure. Developers, contributors, and
users are all welcome to attend.
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For more information, including how to register and how to submit a
presentation proposal, please visit [url
http://www.pkgsrcCon.org/.

Too bad I can't go, this should be quite interesting, especially as I'm preparing two IRIX machines for exclusive pkgsrc use, including bulk-builds on IRIX (expect large breakage :-).

NetBSD imports XFree86 4.4.0
It appears that, unlike many other Open Source projects, NetBSD did not find any serious problems
with the much-debated license change of XFree86 4.4.0: it was just imported
into the tree.