Hands on experience with EdgeRouter ERLite-3
After spending last year on improving ARM test coverage (and then fixing bugs when found), which greatly improved ARM test results, I now turned to MIPS. I used to have some SGI O2 machines, but for...
View ArticleHappy 23rd Birthday, src!
And so it began... revision 1.1 date: 1993-03-21 10:45:37 +0100; author: cgd; state: Exp; branches: 1.1.1; Initial revision and we continue this legacy.
View Articletalks about blacklistd
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View ArticleWhat to do when you run out of (ancient) 50 pin SCSI disks?
Recently on a few mailing lists a discussion about creating a simple turbo-channel USB adapter came up. I have an old Alpha machine with turbo channel and no on-board USB, so considered ordering one -...
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More disk(s) fun
When I got my Sun T1000 machine, it came with a ~80 GB hard disk - good enough for a NetBSD installation, but a bit challenged when you want to use logical domains. Time to expand disk space, or maybe...
View ArticleNetBSD.org outage 2017-01-16
[Update, 2017-01-16 20:48 UTC: All issues have been resolved and NetBSD.org should be functioning normally now.] As some of you may have noticed, the netbsd.org DNS records are broken right now. Two...
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Firefox 51 on sparc64 - we did not hit the wall yet
Background I am using a sparc64 Sun Blade 2500 (silver) as a desktop machine - for my pretty light "desktop" needs. Besides the usual developer tools (editors, compilers, subversion, hg, git) and admin...
View ArticleNetBSD fully reproducible builds
Introduction I have been working on and off for almost a year trying to get reproducible builds (the same source tree always builds an identical cdrom) on NetBSD. I did not think at the time it would...
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Announcing NetBSD and the Google Summer of Code Projects 2017
We are very happy to announce that the selection process in this year's Summer of Code with its bargaining of slots and what student gets assigned to which project is over. As a result, the following...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code 2017
NetBSD participated in the 2017 edition of Google of Summer of Code with 3 students. All of the students finished their projects successfully. The following links report about their activities:...
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Announcing Google Summer of Code 2018 projects
We are very happy to announce The NetBSD Foundation Google Summer of Code 2018 projects:Harsh Khatore - Modern cryptographic algorithms to netpgp, netpgpverifyNizar Benshaqi - SQL Database for ATF...
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The NetBSD Foundation participating in Google Summer of Code 2019
For the 4th year in a row and for the 13th time The NetBSD Foundation will participate inGoogle Summer of Code 2019! If you are a student and would like to learn more about Google Summer of Code...
View ArticleLLDB from trunk is running on NetBSD once again!
Upstream describes LLDB as a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built on top of LLVM/Clang toolchain, and features great integration with it. At the moment, it primarily supports...
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Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report
This report was written by Naveen Narayanan as part of Google Summer of Code 2019. I have been working on porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD as a GSoC 2019 project.Wine is a compatibility layer which...
View ArticlePorting NetBSD to HummingBoard Pulse, Part 1
This report was written by Saurav Prakash as part of Google Summer of Code 2019. My venture into the first phase of The Google Summer of Code is nearing an end. The experience was enriching in every...
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Implementation of DRM ioctl Support for NetBSD kernel
This report was prepared by Surya P as a part of Google Summer of Code 2019 What is DRM ioctl ? Ioctls are input/output control system calls and DRM stands for direct rendering manager The DRM layer...
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Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, second evaluation report
This report was written by Naveen Narayanan as part of Google Summer of Code 2019. This report encompasses the progress of the project during the second coding period.WINE on amd64 As getting Wine to...
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Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, third evaluation report
This report was written by Naveen Narayanan as part of Google Summer of Code 2019. This report encompasses the progress of the project during the third coding period. You can make sense of the overall...
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Announcing Google Summer of Code 2020 projects
We are very happy to announce The NetBSD Foundation Google Summer of Code 2020 projects:Apurva Nandan - Benchmark NetBSDJain Naman - Curses library automated testingNikita Gillmann - Make system(3)...
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GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, first evaluation report
This report was written by Apurva Nandan as part of Google Summer of Code 2020.My GSoC project under NetBSD involves developing an automated regression and performance test framework for NetBSD that...
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GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, second evaluation report
This report was written by Apurva Nandan as part of Google Summer of Code 2020.This blog post is in continuation ofGSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, first evaluation report blog and describes my...
View ArticleGSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, third evaluation report
This report was written by Apurva Nandan as part of Google Summer of Code 2020.IntroductionThis blog post is in continuation ofGSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, first evaluation report and GSoC...
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Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current
For more than 20 years, NetBSD has shipped X11 with the "classic" default window manager of twm. However, it's been showing its age for a long time now. In 2015, ctwm was imported, but after that no...
View ArticleAllen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship
Allen Briggs was one of the earliest members of the NetBSD community, pursuing his interest in macBSD, and moving to become a NetBSD developer when the two projects merged. Allen was known for his...
View ArticlePublic NetBSD IRC chat channels moved to Libera
Hi everyone,Due to the unfortunate situation regarding changes in administration on freenode.net, and the resulting chaos, we have decided to move the public NetBSD IRC chat channels from freenode to...
View ArticleMaking RockPro64 a NetBSD Server
The time has come to upgrade my SunBlade 2500s to something more power friendly and faster. I'd already removed one CPU and thus half the ram from two of these systems to reduce their power...
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The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022
We are happy to announce that The NetBSD Fundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022! Would you like to contribute to NetBSD or pkgsrc during the summer? Please give a look to...
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Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects
The NetBSD Foundation has finalized the list of projects for this year’s Google Summer of Code. The contributors and projects are the following:Brian Schnepp - Raspberry Pi GPU DriverArjun Bemarkar -...
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The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather is like
Prologue When I bought my house in 2004 I went shopping for a outside thermometer - and ended up with a full weather-station instead (a WS2300). When I unpacked it I found a serial cable inside... Long...
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X.Org on NetBSD - the state of things
A few years ago, I wrote a "state of things" blog post aboutWayland on NetBSD. It's only natural that I should do one about X11, which is used by far more people to get a graphical environment on...
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