Category Archives: NetBSD

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Major updates in pkgsrc-2010Q1

Posted on 19 April, 2010 by Matthias Scheler

During the previous week the new stable package source branch pkgsrc-2010Q1 was created. Among the many new packages my favourites are clearly these three: Samba 3.3.12 NetBSD’s Samba package (version 3.0.37) is outdated and no longer supported by the Samba … Continue reading →

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Phasing out Sendmail

Posted on 29 March, 2009 by Matthias Scheler

Three weeks ago I finally managed to finish one of my longest lasting IT projects at home: replacing the Sendmail MTA on all my NetBSD systems with Postfix. There were plenty of reasons for this migration: Sendmail’s configuration files are … Continue reading →

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EuroBSDCon 2009

Posted on 23 February, 2009 by Matthias Scheler

Since 2001 the yearly European BSD Conference provides a great opportunity to present new ideas and meet developers of all BSD projects. This year’s European BSD conference takes place in Cambridge, UK. As one of the local NetBSD developers I’m … Continue reading →

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