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Documentation and history of the RAIDframe project in NetBSD. Includes an up to date change log, and a FAQ.
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NetBSD and RAIDframe Information Dframe is a framework for rapid prototyping of RAID structures. RAIDframe was developed by the folks at the Parallel Data Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. RAIDframe, as distributed by CMU, provides a RAID simulator for a number of different architectures,...Information related to running NetBSD on a mac68k. Contains specifics on using a variety of special hardware and some mac68k-centric aspects of NetBSD.
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NetBSD/mac68k's Home at Puma D looks and acts an awful lot like what they call UNIX. It runs on a number of older macs. This web site is meant to supplement the official NetBSD WWW pages. If you wish to help with the NetBSD...A detailed description of how to setup and use AFS on NetBSD.
http://www.madscientistresearch....ctList/ProjectNorton/AfsOnNetBSD
Site describes how to install NetBSD on an Apple Network Server (in Russian)
http://ansman.by.ru
A very in-depth tutorial on tuning NetBSD VM behaviour.
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Tuning NetBSD VM behaviour (swap usage) Controlling the big picture NetBSD page daemon Meaning of vm.{anon,exec,file}{min,max} limits Setting the vm.{anon,exec,file}{min,max} limits Page daemon statistics Buffer cache (vm.bufcache) Memory for a process Per-process resource limits Setting the per-process resource limits Related issues Tools Tips References Preface disclaimer...A paper by Jan Schaumann describing how NetBSD can effectively be used on the desktop. [EuroBSDCon]
http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/uploads/media/EBSD04_19.pdf
A paper by Ignatios Souvatzis entitled: "A Machine-Independent Port of the SR Language Run Time System to NetBSD Operating System" [EuroBSDCon]
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.DC/0411028
An article by Hubert Feyrer describing how to access a Cisco VPN using open source programs on both NetBSD and Linux. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200409 Open-Source based access to Cisco VPNs: Using vpnc on NetBSD and Linux My local university uses a Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator for their Virtual Private Network, with clients being available only for various binary platforms like Windows, MacOS X and Linux, but none as an open source solution. This text describes how...An article by Erik Berls describing the new cross building system in NetBSD 1.6. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200312 Cross-building Explained: Cross compilation on NetBSD P system sitting on your desk. The solution? Cross building. Starting with NetBSD 1.6, the build infrastructure radically changed for the better. The crossbuild framework allows a host to build a version of NetBSD 1.6 or later regardless of the...Michael Lucas explains how to enhance your palmtop experience with NFS support, so you can build and install software. [Onlamp.com]
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ONLamp.com: Expanding Small NetBSD Systems What are those funny green links? BSD Content All Articles Big Scary Daemons Free BSD Basics OpenBSD Explained Securing Small Networks BSD TopicsAdministrationApplication DevelopmentArchivingCommunityCompatibility IssuesEmailFirewallsFreeBSDGetting StartedKernelNetBSDNetworkingOpenBSDSecurityWeb Design and Development ONLamp Subjects Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Security Sites...Michael Lucas demonstrates how to compile and install NetBSD on an ARM-based palmtop. [Onlamp.com]
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ONLamp.com: Palmtop NetBSD What are those funny green links? BSD Content All Articles Big Scary Daemons Free BSD Basics OpenBSD Explained Securing Small Networks BSD TopicsAdministrationApplication DevelopmentArchivingCommunityCompatibility IssuesEmailFirewallsFreeBSDGetting StartedKernelNetBSDNetworkingOpenBSDSecurityWeb Design and Development ONLamp Subjects Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Security Sites...Michael Lucas demonstrates how to follow the development branch of NetBSD [Onlamp.com]
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ONLamp.com: Staying Current with NetBSD What are those funny green links? BSD Content All Articles Big Scary Daemons Free BSD Basics OpenBSD Explained Securing Small Networks BSD TopicsAdministrationApplication DevelopmentArchivingCommunityCompatibility IssuesEmailFirewallsFreeBSDGetting StartedKernelNetBSDNetworkingOpenBSDSecurityWeb Design and Development ONLamp Subjects Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Security Sites...An article by Graham Jenkins describing different methods of getting Java working under NetBSD. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200308 Doing Java on NetBSD Java has been hailed as the language in which one can write a program once, and run it everywhere. There is another version of this assertion in which the phrase debug everywhere appears. I decided to try out some Java...An article by Bill Studenmund showing how to perform this neat trick using gdb on the live kernel. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200304 Updating your NetBSD Real-Time Clock Offset without Recompiling D automatically takes care of this, so machines that have been up all the time (or run just Unix) are fine. Machines (i386) that dual-boot, though, have a problem. Windows keeps the RTC in local time, so the clock jumped...A series of 3 articles by Hubert Feyrer explaining the layout of the NetBSD source tree, explaining the hierarchy and the reasons behind it. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200203 A Tour through the NetBSD Source Tree: Part I Userland Source operating systems on this planet. As such, the full source code is available via various methods like FTP, SUP, rsync, anonymous CVS and of course various vendors selling it on CD, usually accompanying the NetBSD operating system itself. If...An article by Jason R. Fink discussing the different groups within the NetBSD Project and the variety of ways virtually any user can help the project. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200301 Getting into NetBSD How to Help This article discusses the different groups within the NetBSD Project and the variety of ways virtually any user can help the project. Some of the material for this paper is taken from the NetBSD website. There is a list of...A paper by Ignatios Souvatzis detailing why one would want to set up such a configuration, and details of how to implement it. [EuroBSDCon]
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.OS/0410007
An article by Hubert Feyrer explaining how to use NetBSD to develop software for a different target architecture. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200211 Cross-Development with NetBSD When targeting a product for an embedded platform, it's not feasible to have all the development tools available on that same platform. Instead, some method of cross-compiling is usually used today. NetBSD 1.6 will contain (and NetBSD-current has today) a...A paper by Hubert Feyrer describing the setup of a video rendering cluster based on NetBSD. [EuroBSDCon]
http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/feyrer.pdf
An article by Grey Wolf describing an ideal partition layout, and why he feels it is the correct setup. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200209 How To Properly Partition a Disk For NetBSD I want to lay out the filesystems. Now what? A: How you partition your system is largely a matter of taste; however, it is recommended that you not fall into the laziness trap that has sprung up with the advent...An article by Sean Davis describing NetBSD's sysctl interface, and the underlying structure behind it. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200205 sysctl On NetBSD An Easy Way To Get Process Data I could write a program to give me the total used CPU seconds of every running process, and do it totally without using procfs. After an hour or so of digging through ps source (basesrc/usr.bin/ps on CVS) for NetBSD, I...A series of 3 articles by Hubert Feyrer describing the NetBSD source tree. Describes the subdirectories of the kernel, explains what they contain, and what they provide to the kernel. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200205 A Tour through the NetBSD Source Tree Part III: Kernel This is the third part of our tour through the NetBSD source tree. After we have talked about the various components that build up the userland, we will concentrate on the kernel source now. It is located in /usr/src/sys, with...A series of 3 articles by Hubert Feyrer describing the NetBSD source tree. Describes the different libraries included in NetBSD and the features they provide. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200204 A Tour through the NetBSD Source Tree: Part II Libraries Sources in this directory are partly coded in machine language for efficiency, and there are special functions for each architecture and object file format (a.out, ELF libarch: This library contains some architecture-specific functions that might be useful to access from...An article by Hal Snyder describing NetBSD's support of the Japanese language. Intended for english speaking readers. [Daemonnews.org]
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Daemon News 200202 Japanese Language Support in NetBSD Open source operating systems offer excellent opportunities for improving one's skill at a second language, communicating with native users of that language, and becoming familiar with IT issues such as multilingualization. Japanese language processing on a computer is more complicated...An article by Hubert Feyrer desscribing various uncategorized forms of documentation provided by NetBSD. Also lists useful books relating to NetBSD. [Daemonnews.org]
http://www.daemonnews.org/200107/nbdocsIV.html
A series of 4 articles by Hubert Feyrer describing the documentation provided by NetBSD. Describes the various printable forms of documentation that are included with the OS. [Daemonnews.org]
http://www.daemonnews.org/200106/nbdocsIII.html
A series of 4 articles by Hubert Feyrer describing the documentation provided by NetBSD. Explains the texinfo system, and lists some of the information that can be found with it. [Daemonnews.org]
http://www.daemonnews.org/200105/nbdocsII.html
A series of 4 articles by Hubert Feyrer designed to help new users understand the documentation provided by NetBSD. Explains the manpage categories and shows how to access the manpages. [Daemonnews.org]
http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/nbdocsI.html
An article by Michael Lucas. Turn a stock NetBSD installation into a usable machine. Includes basic configuration and installation of important software packages. [Onlamp.com]
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ONLamp.com: NetBSD for the FreeBSD User: Customizations What are those funny green links? BSD Content All Articles Big Scary Daemons Free BSD Basics OpenBSD Explained Securing Small Networks BSD TopicsAdministrationApplication DevelopmentArchivingCommunityCompatibility IssuesEmailFirewallsFreeBSDGetting StartedKernelNetBSDNetworkingOpenBSDSecurityWeb Design and Development ONLamp Subjects Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Security Sites...Article by Michael Lucas. A walk through of a NetBSD install by an experienced FreeBSD user. [Onlamp.com]
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ONLamp.com: NetBSD for the FreeBSD User What are those funny green links? BSD Content All Articles Big Scary Daemons Free BSD Basics OpenBSD Explained Securing Small Networks BSD TopicsAdministrationApplication DevelopmentArchivingCommunityCompatibility IssuesEmailFirewallsFreeBSDGetting StartedKernelNetBSDNetworkingOpenBSDSecurityWeb Design and Development ONLamp Subjects Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Security Sites...