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netbsd, 28 days ago to random

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

netbsd, 1 month ago to random

Malte Dehling has contributed a ZFS verification method for cgdconfig(8).

This allows CGD encrypted ZFS partitions to be validated without putting a redundant GPT table inside them.

https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/l8DqFN0POdK6MJ9F

netbsd, 1 month ago to random

As a final goodbyte to the netbsd-8 branch, the release engineering team have put out one final release containing all the changes ever made to the branch. https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.3.html

NetBSD 8.0 is a few months shy of being 6 years old.

netbsd, 1 month ago to random

X.Org on NetBSD - the state of things

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/x_org_on_netbsd_the

netbsd, 1 month ago to random

It turns out we have been secretly maintaining X.Org over the years and nobody noticed.

(The number of not-yet-upstreamed patches in our xsrc tree is fairly huge, working on fixing that...)

netbsd, 1 month ago to random

I wonder, what is the cheapest hardware we can run on that isn't x86 or ARM-based?

I can find a nintendo wii on eBay for 20 euros, and ERLite-3s for 30 euros.

netbsd, 1 month ago to random

NetBSD 9.4 (our equivalent of "oldstable") is out. https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.4.html

netbsd, 2 months ago to random

christos just committed a notable libc performance improvement that should help a lot of programs using stdio, apparently nabbed from Apple's version of the BSD libc https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/KumAZRn09ajlI64F

netbsd, 2 months ago to random

!!! netbsd 10 released !!!
✨ 🔥

https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

netbsd, 2 months ago to random

The version of xz shipped in all stable (and unstable) versions of NetBSD predates any code changes by the author of the backdoor and is thus unaffected by the recent discoveries.

The version of xz shipped in pkgsrc, however, is affected - if you use xz from pkgsrc you need to take precautions. This is a non-default setting on NetBSD, and requires explicit opt-in.

netbsd, 2 months ago to random

I usually try to keep you informed about interesting commits that are happening, but we're all clenching for NetBSD 10 right now...

Regardless, nat committed a new audio driver...

... for Motorola 68000 Macintoshes. enjoy!

netbsd, 2 months ago to random

testing...

netbsd, 3 months ago to random

celebrating international women's day by not working on netbsd

netbsd, 3 months ago to random

History. https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-berkley-software-distribution

netbsd, 4 months ago to random

jmcneill has committed his port of NetBSD to the Nintendo Wii.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-MShCcFm_w