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NetBSD turns 20

On this page you will find a summary of significant changes to NetBSD. For those interested in every change to the source tree, there is no substitute for subscribing to the source-changes mailing list. Significant news related to the NetBSD Project is also included here. Changes to pkgsrc are also listed here. All of…

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Raspberry Pi (2 and 3) support in Fedora 25 Beta

This article comes courtesy of Peter Robinson, member of the Fedora release engineering team. Peter has worked for several years on the general release and also hardware architectures such as ARM and Power. Here, Peter announces some big news for Raspberry Pi hackers. So support for the Raspberry Pi in Fedora has been…

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May Update: PineTab Pre-Orders, PinePhone Qi Charging and More

With the PinePhone and Pinebook Pro production well under way and shipping in just a few days time, we’ll now be turning our attention to the other projects we have in the pipeline. There is a fair bit of material to cover this month - the main piece of news, however, is that we’ll be taking pre-orders for the PineTab…

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Coreboot 4.11

The coreboot project is proud to announce to have released coreboot 4.11. This release cycle was a bit shorter to get closer to our regular schedule of releasing in spring and autumn. Since 4.10 there were 1630 new commits by over 130 developers. Of these, about 30 contributed to coreboot for the

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Interview with Viktor Lofgren from Marginalia Search

Viktor Lofgren is the creator of Marginalia Search , a search engine takes you of the beaten track by letting you find small quality web pages. These pages barely surface in commercial search engines because they are snowed under by larger commercial websites and marketing. We interviewed Viktor for FreeWebSearchDay …

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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.

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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released

[08 Oct 2009] Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition [07 Oct 2009] Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port [23 Sep 2009] First Debian Mini Conference to be held in Taiwan [05 Sep 2009] Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated [06 Aug 2009] 2009 Annual International Debian Conference finished…