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Best Power UPS Distributes Source Code
June 10, 2000

I just received my Best Power (http://www.bestpower.com) UPS this week, 
and was delighted to find that they include _source_code_ for their UPS 
monitoring software. It compiled on my NetBSD box with no errors using 
the included Makefile. This program then drives two scripts that take 
care of notification and shutdown procedures. Good work, Best Power! 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=978
LINK: http://www.bestpower.com

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NetBSD: NFS over IPv6 coming along 
June 06, 2000

Frank van der Linden has modified NetBSD's RPC code (the library code,
rpcinfo and rpcbind) to be based on the "TI-RPC" interface, Sun's  
second-generation RPC code, which is one of the components necessary 
for  using NFS over IPv6. 

Not all applications have been adapted to the new interface yet, but 
they  will continue to work because the old interface is still there 
for backward  compatibility, and the upcoming NetBSD 1.5 release will 
allow using all RPC  services over any protocol like IPv6 as well as 
IPv4, while the old  interface was restricted to IPv4. This makes
complete IPv6 support across  the board possible for all standard 
user applications, which has not been  available in open source 
operating systems so far. 

Further details (including instructions on how to upgrade) are 
available in  Frank's announcement in the current-users mail archive. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=962 
LINK: http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#newrpccode

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Newbies: An Introduction to BSD Ports
by James Howard 

Find out the basics on using ports and what they're made of in this
month's Newbies column. 

LINK: http://www.daemonnews.org/200006/ports.html

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Blueprints: Writing a CAM SCSI controller driver
by Sergey Babkin 

This month's Blueprint gives an in-depth tutorial on SCSI driver
creation. 

LINK: http://www.daemonnews.org/200006/cam-driver.htm

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State of the Daemon
June 12, 2000

A fairly straightforward BSD article... what BSD is, where it is, and 
where it's going. 

MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=980
LINK: http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml

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Chris Coleman  <chrisc@vmunix.com>

Daemon News			 O'Reilly Networks -- Open Source Editor
http://www.daemonnews.org	 http://www.oreillynet.com/