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NetBSD 11.0
The NetBSD project is pleased to (finally) announce the NetBSD 11.0 release ! See the release announcement for details.
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The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 11.1, the first update to the nineteenth major release of NetBSD.
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NetBSD fully reproducible builds
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 take as long or be so difficult, so I did not keep a log of all the changes I needed to make. I was also not the only one working on…
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NetBSD Network Security Audit
Over the last five months, hundreds of patches were committed to the source tree as a result of this work. Dozens of bugs were fixed, among which a good number of actual, remotely-triggerable vulnerabilities.
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µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime
Over the past month, I've implemented from scratch a clean-room version of the UBSan runtime. The initial motivation was the need of developing one for the purposes of catching undefined behavior reports (unspecified code semantics in a compiled executable) in the NetBSD kernel. However, since we need to write a new…
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X.org on NetBSD – The State of Things
A few years ago, I wrote a "state of things" blog post about Wayland 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 NetBSD.
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NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.5, the fifth (and final) release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch.
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NVMM: A full, fast and flexible virtualization stack for NetBSD
NVMM provides the infrastructure needed for both the kernel driver and the userland emulators.
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NetBSD 9.2
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.2 "Nakatomi Socrates", the second update of the NetBSD 9 release branch.
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NetBSD 9.3
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.3, the third release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch.
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An Internet-Ready OS From Scratch in a Week – Rump Kernels on Bare Metal
The most time-consuming part of operating system development is obtaining enough drivers to enable the OS to run real applications which interact with the real world. NetBSD's rump kernels allow reducing that time to almost zero, for example for developing special-purpose operating systems for the cloud and embedded…
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Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD
As of the time of writing, there is no real sandboxing technique available to NetBSD. There is chroot , which can be considered a weak sandbox because it modifies the root directory of the process, effectively restricting the process' view of the file system, but it doesn't isolate anything else, so all networking…
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NetBSD 9.1
After a small delay * , the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.1 , the first feature and stability maintenance release of the netbsd-9 stable branch.