This summer I mentored Nhat Minh Lê's project, XML Command-Line Utilities for NetBSD. Here is my summary of the project goals and results.

The main idea of the project was to bring the UNIX text-processing idiom to XML, helping users to employ pipelines, elementary filters, and shell scripts in XML processing tasks.

Goals

Nhat Minh's goal was to produce a

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The 8th EuroBSDCon was held at University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom on 18 - 20 September 2009. This year four NetBSD Developers, Alistair Crooks, Adam Hamsik, Joerg Sonnenberger and Arnaud Ysmal, presented a range of topics including Role Based Access Control, Journaling FFS, NetBSD LVM, The pkgsrc wrapper framework, A BSD licensed PGP library, and fs-utils: File systems

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The 2009 Summer of Code project to implement efficient wide-character regular expressions for NetBSD was carried out by Matthias-Christian Ott, mentored by myself. This blog entry gives an overview of the progress and results of the project.

Goals

The goal of the project was to enable wide character regular expressions to be added to the NetBSD base system.

Progress

The

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On Friday, the 18th of September, a group of NetBSD developers from all over the world met during a developer summit at the Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge/UK. It provided a great opportunity for developers to meet each other in person, to share ideas and to talk about ongoing and future projects.
The summit was organised by Stephen Borrill and

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Around 00:00 UTC on 2009-09-25, nyftp.netbsd.org will be offline for an unknown interval of time due to the emergency replacement of a chiller and other air conditioning equipment at the location where it is hosted. The current expected date for the return of services is ~2009-09-28.

blog.NetBSD.org was not very available between ~13:00 and ~20:00 UTC today. One of its disks semi-failed and led to really exhaustive retries that left the httpds so exhausted they timed nearly everybody out instead. The faulty disk has been taken offline, and lo, we have a blog again.

Overview

For a second consecutive year I mentored Jeremy Morse for NetBSD's Google Summer of Code. This year's project was entitled Display Control and Acceleration.

Goals

Typically on NetBSD a framebuffer console driver will be implemented in the kernel using the rasops(9) library. However, since rasops is geared towards terminal emulation, what you end up with is a

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