Subject: NetBSD Real Quick Newsletter
To: None <netbsd-announce@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
List: netbsd-announce
Date: 09/23/2000 01:37:07
NetBSD Real-Quick(TM) NewsLetter.
Things Happening in NetBSD.
Presented by Daemon News
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Mini-PCI on NetBSD
September 2000
The upcoming industry standard for Mini-PCI was tested and found working
in NetBSD. Using the machine independent bus and driver infrastructure,
no changes were needed to the existing code. Components used for testing
were a IBM ThinkPad T20 notebook equipped with a 3Com 3c556B network card.
An introduction to Mini-PCI can be found at Dell's website
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1198
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List of NetBSD code changes now available in XML/RSS format
September 10, 2000
After making information on major changes in NetBSD land as well as
changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection available in RSS/XML format,
the NetBSD Project is proud to offer another list describing internal
code changes such as newly added features in both kernel and userland,
updates programs in the base system, ports to new architectures and a
lot more.
The 'NetBSD Code Changes' RSS file is available at the following URL:
http:/ /www.netbsd.org/Changes/rss-netbsd-internals.xml
Please see our RSS page for more information!
- Hubert Feyrer
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1180
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BSD Mall Upgrade
21 September 2000
Daemon News has upgraded the BSD Mall to the latest version of phpShop.
We are now geared up to ship BSD products internationally. We have
started to add books and BSD supported hardware.
If you know of good BSD supported hardware that we should have listed,
please tell us about it. We need your help to grow the BSD channel.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/add_comment.php3?story_id=1205
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Long-Term Monitoring with SNMP
21 September 2000
Michael Lucas, in his column Big Scary Daemons, shows us how to use
mrtg to turn long-term SNMP statistics into easy-to-read web pages.
It will even chart bar graphs.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1203
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Understanding Shell Prompts
September 19, 2000
Looking to change your default shell prompt? Dru Lavigne helps us
understand the four major shells and how to change their prompts. Her
column, FreeBSD Basics, at the O'Reilly Network is geared towards new users
and often contains information relevant to all BSD.
To help supplement this article, the BSD Support Forum is collecting user
contributed shell prompts. Dru will be compiling a list from that.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1196
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New BSD products at Think Geek
September 15, 2000
I've already enjoyed some of Think Geeks products. Most people still can't
figure out what my perl tshirt is supposed to say :-)
Think Geek has now added two more BSD products to their catalog. There's a
BSD mug and a BSD Grand Pilsner, which is also available as a two pack.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1188
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BSD Businesses Recieving More Funds
September 15, 2000
Two BSD based companies have recently received some additional funding.
BSDi is getting $5 million from the Japan based ISP Livin' on the Edge, Ltd
(LOTE). The recently launched Wasabi Systems has closed it's first round of
financing raising over $500,000.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1187
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802.11 at BSDcon
September 11, 2000
For those of you with Orinocco (nee' WaveLan) cards, I plan on bringing
an Airport to BSDcon, and (so long as they will let me) hooking it up
to the terminal room LAN, like at the last Usenix conference. So, don't
leave it at home!
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1182
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Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>
Daemon News O'Reilly Networks -- Open Source Editor
http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.oreillynet.com/