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[20110417]
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Prezi: on NetBSD and pkgsrc
Looking around for alternative presentation methods,
I stumbled across
Prezi.
PreziIt uses a path through a mind map to show concepts
and connections. It's free for public use,
can create output for the web (Flash),
as PDF (boring slideshow style :) and also
give you a ZIP file with a Windows and a Mac OS X binary for
offline consumption.
Meetings can be scheduled for webinar-style
online presentation, and there's a aso a Desktop
version that can be used offline.
As a show-off, here's what's possible, with
NetBSD and pkgsrc as topic, plus some historical
background on those topics:
This presentation is also available
as PDF snapshot,
as Windows/Mac ZIP-snapshot file and
online.
[Tags: Advocacy, presentations, prezi]
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[20070504]
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Coverity and pkgsrc
I've found this interesting
report
about Coverity and pkgsrc via the
NetBSD News Beat and the
DragonFly BSD Digest,
telling that
``[...] Coverity has chosen to use pkgsrc (www.pkgsrc.org) as a
framework for building and scanning software. Pkgsrc makes it easier for
anyone, including Coverity, to build free software.''
There's also another interesting part that hints that pkgsrc
could gain more users by persuing that user community:
``It happens that
pkgsrc is running a little behind and still has 0.63 as its basis. I will
try to get a more recent version in pkgsrc (in particular because new code
is more likely to contain error, ego notwithstanding), but from looking at
the scan, it's clear many of these bugs remain in the current codebase.''
[Tags: Advocacy, coverity, pkgsrc]
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[20070405]
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Advocacy Flyers updated
Shameless copy from my
posting to netbsd-advocacy:
I've updated the collection of flyers in
http://www.NetBSD.org/gallery/advocacy/ with the latest set of flyers from
Stefan Schumacher. Contents have been updated, internal (TeX) structure was
cleaned up (except for the Xen one... volunteers?), and there's a bunch of
new flyers in DIN A4 format:
- General information on NetBSD in English, German, and both
- NetBSD Security in German+English
- pkgsrc in English and German
- Xen in German+English
I've included all the files to rebuild the PDFs along with the PDFs
themselves.
A note on the format: We went from the 3-fold flyer over A5 to A4 - it's
easiest to print and doesn't require folding. (Have you ever folded some 500
flyers? :-) Future flyers will most likely be in A4 format.
Thanks a LOT to
Stefan Schumacher
for all the work he has put into this!
Enjoy!
[Tags: Advocacy]
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[20070309]
|
Catching up: events, articles, benchmarks, summer of code...
So I was away for a few days, being sick and then giving a talk
at the Chemnitz Linuxdays and then off for a few days in
Austria
visiting Vienna & Zotter,
and there's a backlog of stuff that happened in
NetBSD's madhouse^Wwonderful world. Here's a quick run-down of things
that I'm too lazy to post single items on:
-
Linuxdays Chemnitz:
I was only there for my presentation on sunday, due to not feeling
too well the days before. Still, Stefan, Jörg, Charlie and many
others staffed the booth just fine, and I think every single household
in and around Chemnitz has a NetBSD install and/or Live CD now. :)
Related talks to mention are
Stefan Schumacher's talk on
hardening systems with systrace
and
deleting data.
My own talk was not too NetBSD specific, showing an application on
how to implement dynamic DNS with some retail web/domain hoster.
Slides for my talks are available
as OpenOffice .ODP
and as PDF.
(I'll reconsider the move from TeX/prosper to OpenOffice after it was
NOT as easy as I expected to find a machine running OOo for presentation
purpose, after my laptop's harddisk crashed on the way to Chemnitz!)
- While at roadshows:
Stefan Schumacher has made DIN A4 pkgsrc flyers in
english
and
german
language.
- NetBSD's puff-based FUSE implementation "refuse" is now in a state
to also run the
NTFS-g3
filesystem, which offers read/write support for NTFS.
It's available from
pkgsrc/filesystems/fuse-ntfs-3g.
- Google News found me an article that
NetBSD stack supports Geode NAS design:
``Wasabi Systems Inc.'s BSD-based NAS (network attached storage) software stack now supports a Geode-based reference design from AMD. Wasabi Storage Builder for NAS, combined with AMD's Geode LX NAS RDK (reference design kit), provides a secure, reliable platform for the development of NAS devices, according to Wasabi. ''
While that's all fine for Wasabi, it should be noted that
whatever the company Wasabi offers is not automatically available in the freely
available operating system called NetBSD. Integration efforts
would have to happen first, so the headline of that article
is unfortunately misleading if not to say plain wrong!
- Another article that's more to the point:
Julio M. Merino Vidal has worked on getting
multiboot support into NetBSD, and in his article
``Making NetBSD Multiboot-Compatible''
he talks more about it.
- Andrew Doran has done lots of work on NetBSD's thread and SMP
implementation recently, and he has made a comparison between
performance of the Scheduler-Activations-based code in
NetBSD 4 and the one that will be in NetBSD 5 (AKA NetBSD-current,
currently numbered as 4.99.13). See
his mail to tech-kern
or watch the images for
'make cleandir' on an empty source tree
and
the MySQL supersmack benchmark.
- Google runs another Summer of Code,
and this year it's not clear upfront who will be allowed as mentoring
organizations. NetBSD is ready to participate again, and there's
an
official announcement from NetBSD
about this, including pointers to
our suggested/wanted list of projects
and
the project application HowTo.
People interested in submitting a project proposal (via google!)
are encouraged to use the remaining time until the deadline to
discuss their proposals on the public NetBSD tech-* lists!
(Personally I'll try to stay out of GSoC this year to finish some
reallife work. At least that's the plan so far ...)
- Three new security advisories were released:
- Another article that doesn't mention NetBSD but g4u:
``How to Install a New Hard Drive: Tech Clinic''
by Joel Johnson. From the article:
`` To make your new drive work like your old drive, you'll need a disk
"cloner." There are a myriad of options, from commercial solutions such as
the old favorite Ghost from Symantec ($70; symantec.com) and Copy
Commander from VCom ($35; v-com.com) to free applications, such as
MaxBlast from Maxtor, that come bundled with hard drives. If you're
comfortable mucking around with Linux/BSD, I've had great luck with the
free g4u application. If you have a local file server, you can even send
the disk image from your laptop to an FTP site, install the larger drive,
then FTP it back to your laptop, obviating the need for a drive enclosure''.
So much for now. Enjoy!
[Tags: Advocacy, Articles, benchmark, clt, Events, g4u, google-soc, hubertf, pkgsrc, Security]
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[20061101]
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The NetBSD Foundation Spreadshirt.net Store
I know that TNF has a
Cafepress store,
which is nice for people in the USA,
but those of us on the other side of the planet
may want to get something with less shipping and taxes
attached. In that regard, I've learned today that
TNF also has a Spreadshirt.net store!
[Tags: Advocacy, cafepress, spreadshirt, t-shirt]
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[20060312]
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NetBSD promo material updated
Working with Stefan Schumacher,Joerg Pernfuss and Rainer Brinkmöller, I
have updated
a bunch of NetBSD promo material:
[Tags: Advocacy]
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[20060308]
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NetBSD at the Chemnitz Linuxdays (Updated)
There's a NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxtays
and Stefan Schumacher has posted
a bunch of first pictures. Lots of action going oin here, I'll post more later.
If you're bored, drop by!
Update:
Stefan added more pictures to the above page, and
there are also
more pictures
by lay.
[Tags: Advocacy, images]
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[20060307]
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NetBSD at the Chemnitz Linuxdays 2006
I spent the past weekend at the Chemnitz Linuxdays and had an excellent
time. See
my mail to netbsd-advocacy
for my full report.
Please note the request for volunteers for the following
upcoming events:
- CeBit (already staffed, but can't hurt having some more people
as backup)
- Vienna Linuxdays
- Wiesbaden "Linuxtag"
Drop me mail if you want to go there, I'll get you in contact with
the people who coordinate a *BSD booth!
[Tags: Advocacy, Events]
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[20060303]
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Put a flag on your desk(top)
It's nice to show what you run. So far, the xdaemon packages were
good for displaying daemons in an xteddy-style, but there was nothing
showing the (new) NetBSD logo. I've changed this tonight, and after installing
either pkgsrc/x11/xdaemon (lean, doesn't need imlib) or pkgsrc/x11/daemon2
(wants imlib and whatnot), you can put a NetBSD flag on your desktop:
% cd /usr/pkgsrc/x11/xdaemon
% make install
% rehash
% xnetbsd-flag &
% xnetbsd-flag2 &
% xdaemon &
% xdaemon2 &
Enjoy!
[Tags: Advocacy, hubertf]
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[20060302]
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Not An Article: Interview with Stephen Jones
I wasn't aware of
bsdtalk,
a blog which (also) carries interviews of various
BSD-related celebrities.
This week, Stephen Jones of SDF, Super Dimension Fortress,
who provides free shell accounts at
http://www.freeshell.org
was
interviewed.
Klick
here.
for the mp3!
[Tags: Advocacy]
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Disclaimer: All opinion expressed here is purely my own.
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