Hello people,
this is the first status report for 2006.
First of, the MirOS Project is alive and kicking, despite some issues
with the infrastructure, which are being resolved rather slowly.
After our tremendous appearance at FOSDEM 2006, Daniel Seuffert has
managed to give away a stunning 200 Live+Install CDs at LinuxTag 2006.
The next appearance will be at FROSCON 2006, where the MirOS Project
manages the BSD (sine OpenBSD) booth and provides the BSD exhibitors
(and "friends", e.g. Plan 9) with free anarchistic coffee (of course,
donations are greatly appreciated).
Since we have had not only lots of bug and security fixes, but also
a number of crucial new features, we have decided to release MirOS #9
in time for FROSCON, whether or not the sparc architecture is ready.
We will probably issue a special "FROSCON Edition Live+Install CD" of
the release and distribute that at the conference, while the release
ISO will be an installation CD (dual-arch) again. This isn't too bad
since the last release, MirOS #8, was issued half a year ago already.
The new release spots:
* ld / rpath fixes
* iconv
* I18N (wchar_t, UTF-8, UCS-2)
* sparc support brought back (probably)
* incorporate newer versions of some upstream tools
* incorporate bug- and security fixes from upstream
On other news, we have cancelled the hosted root server which the
websites, anoncvs/anonrsync etc. were hosted on until now. We have
rented webspace and pointed www.mirbsd.org to it, but the web pages
are in bad shape as well. Benny Siegert promised to rewrite them
over the summer break. The wlog is still being updated, but that's
it (and you know that commits to the wlog sometimes aren't done for
several months).
Current AnonCVS server:
* anoncvs-P2Or9IAOnEVJ2leek5CEPx2eb7JE58TQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvs pass anoncvs
Current AnonRSYNC server (sorry, no ssh):
* rsync://rsync.allbsd.org/mirbsd-cvs
* rsync://rsync.allbsd.org/mirbsd-old-cvs (historic)
http://mirbsd.de/ and http://cvs.mirbsd.de/ are still properly ope-
rating as redirects to working versions of the start page and the
CVSweb service, respectively.
Finally, I'd like you all to download and test the latest snapshot
from BitTorrent - http://f.scarywater.net/miros/ - because not only
it's already MirOS #9-beta, with brk malloc, etc. and closely re-
sembling the release (so that the release will rock), but also due
to the number of SECURITY FIXES (e.g. two sendmail exploits, kernel
bugs, etc.) resolved. No older snapshots are available via BT any
more; the older releases are still up for archival reasons but are
not recommended to be used (well, except #7 on sparc, for now).
To these who have not yet heard: I am now also a core developer of
the FreeWRT Project, a fork by wbx (Waldemar Brodkorb, well-known
in the BSD community) of an embedded GNU/Linux distribution (might
as well use e.g. the NetBSD kernel in the future though). We also
want to bring BSD spirit (style of development, for example) to it,
so keep tuned. I will not forget my obligations to MirOS, though.
I hope I see some of you at FROSCON 2006 (www.froscon.de)!
Farewell,
//mirabile
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