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As some of you know, and some of you don’t, last weekend was the 2nd NetBSD bugathon. Over 300 bugs have been reported as fixed and over 97 people joined the IRC channel to help out and talk about their ideas, I was one of them. I spent a lot of yesterday, in between homework assignments, chatting to a few of the developers about getting NetBSD/BeBox running again, and I succeeded.

Currently, the only thing you have to do to get NetBSD 3.0 Release to compile is edit the list file that has two entries for pte.h, one marking it obsolete and one marking it not. Remove the line marking it non-obsolete and compile as the handbook says with build.sh.

The good news to come from this is that one of the developers instructed to get the port updated was there. He doesn’t have a bebox, so he didn’t want to do it blindly. He asked me to assist him with getting it up-to-date. So not only was yesterday the first day that NetBSD 3.0 has run on the bebox, as far as I know, but it also marks my slow journey back into an open source project. (I’m not going to get near as involved this time.)

Here are some pics to drool over, click for larger versions: