Building custom packages for a powerpc or mips network appliance that's too painfully small to build anything itself? With pkgsrc, the customizable cross-platform packaging system from NetBSD, you can cross-build from a large repository of packages on your beefier laptop, workstation, or server instead -- and not just across architectures, but soon across operating systems too.
pkgsrc will...
Subfiles provide a way for the user to store files ”within” other files. They can be found in a variety of different file systems with a variety of limitations and use cases. Subfiles are not currently available to the NetBSD user. William Dobbins and Philip Nelson attempted to change this in 2016 by beginning a subfile implementation for NetBSD. Their progress has been built upon in this new...
Alamosa is a simple but fast tiered disk cache layer for NetBSD that I have been developing since mid 2023. Loosely inspired by Linux's bcache, Alamosa is designed to provide moderate disk I/O performance gains using small, fast disks as a transparent and flexible block cache.
In this presentation, I will discuss the development and design of Alamosa, the challenges encountered, and...
I will talk about using FreeBSD, Zabbix, MQTT, Google/AWS/Nordic clouds, Nordic NRF9160 (a cellular SOC), Zephyr RTOS, and other hardware/software components to create a new service for environmental monitoring of vaccines and medications in pharmacies/clinics/hospitals.
Caveat: At the time of this proposal (2024-01-05), the service is still in development, and not actively deployed in any...
