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Submission + - NetBSD 5.1 released (netbsd.org)

Submitted by jschauma
jschauma writes: NetBSD 5.1 has been released. NetBSD 5.1 is the first feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It includes security and bug fixes, as well as improved hardware support and new features. Some highlights include: RAIDframe parity maps, which greatly improve parity rewrite times after unclean shutdown; X.Org updates; Support for many more network devices; Xen PAE dom0 support; Xen PCI pass-through support. For a full list of all changes, please see the release announcement.

NetBSD 5.1 is dedicated to the memory of Martti Kuparinen, who was the victim of a traffic accident in June 2010.
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Submission + - NetBSD moves to a 2 Clause BSD License (netbsd.org)

Submitted by jschauma
jschauma writes: Alistair Crooks, president of the NetBSD Foundation, announced recently that it ``has changed its recommended license to be a 2 clause BSD license.'' This makes NetBSD even more easily available to a number of organizations and individuals who may have been put off by the advertising or endorsement clauses. See Alistair's email and NetBSD's licensing information for more details.
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Submission + - Yahoo! becomes Platinum Sponsor of Apache Software (shareholder.com)

Submitted by jschauma
jschauma writes: Yahoo! published a press release, announcing that "it has become a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)." In their company blog, Yahoo! points out their particular interest in Lucene as well as Hadoop and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. (Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia; Yahoo! also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.)

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