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Update the projects page a bit. I've removed a bunch of links, some of them

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were dead and some of them linked to unmaintained projects.  This is just
the first step though -- I'm working on a complete rewrite of the projects
page.

PR:		www/99326 (based on)
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/projects.sgml,v 1.197 2006/07/12 13:42:36 jkoshy Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/projects.sgml,v 1.198 2006/07/12 15:27:53 ceri Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Development Projects">
<!ENTITY % navincludes SYSTEM "../includes.navdevelopers.sgml"> %navincludes;
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
@ -66,23 +66,6 @@ Diary</a>: A collection of how-to entries aimed at UNIX
novices. The aim is to provide a set of step-by-step guides to
installing and configuring various ports.</li>
<li><A HREF="http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/">A Comprehensive
Guide to FreeBSD</A>: An attempt at a more readable,
"book-like" tutorial explaining the FreeBSD Operating
System. Intended for people new to both FreeBSD and
UNIX. Currently a work in progress.</li>
<li><A HREF="http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/">FreeBSD
How-To's for the Lazy and Hopeless</A>: Another somewhat more
light-hearted attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style
information on setting up and configuring FreeBSD.</li>
<li><A HREF="http://home.worldonline.dk/nkbj/Linux+FreeBSD/Linux+FreeBSD.html">The
Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO</a>: Describes how to
use Linux and FreeBSD on the same system. It introduces FreeBSD
and discusses how the two operating systems can cooperate,
e.g. by sharing swap space.</li>
<li><a href="&url.books;/developers-handbook/index.html">
The FreeBSD Developers' Handbook</a></li>
@ -163,10 +146,7 @@ collection of work that needs to be done to clean up and advance the
FreeBSD network stack. The goal is to remove duplicated functionality
while also adding new features that will make FreeBSD simple to use,
both for the network engineer, experimenter and the first time user.</li>
<li><a name="altq" href="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html">ALTQ</a>: bandwidth management for applications.</li>
<li><a name="kame" href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME Project</a>: A free IPv6/IPsec stack for BSD.</li>
<li><a name="ppp" href="http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html">Point to Point Protocol (PPP)</a></li>
<li><a name="smn" href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/research/SMN/">Secure MobileIP via IP</a></li>
<li><a name="SYSLOG-SECURE">SYSLOG-SECURE</a>:
In August 2001 a standard of syslog was made: RFC3164. This RFC
describes some extensions to add security to syslog. The project
@ -180,10 +160,6 @@ All help is welcome. Send an email to albert@ons-huis.net for info.</li>
<a name="storage"></a>
<h3>Storage</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~yar/hfs/">HFS and HFS
Plus in FreeBSD</a>: This project is aimed at integrating
HFS support from Darwin into FreeBSD.</li>
<li><a name="afs" href="http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/">Arla</a>:
A free AFS client implementation. The main goal is to
make a fully functional client with all capabilities of normal AFS.
@ -199,30 +175,9 @@ A distributed filesystem. Among its features are disconnected
operation, good security model, server replication and persistent
client side caching.</li>
<li><a name="cryptfs" href="http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/">Cryptfs</a>: Encrypts file names and data pages using Blowfish.</li>
<li><a name="journaling" href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/">
Journaling versus Soft Updates</a>: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems.</li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">Mode locking</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">Make the namei interface reflexive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">NFS client and server locking</a></li>
<li><a name="dcd" href="http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/full_papers/nightingale/nightingale_html/">The Design and Implementation of a DCD Device Driver for Unix</a></li>
<li><a href="http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs/">NTFS Driver for FreeBSD</a>:
This driver allows Windows&reg; NTFS partitions to be mounted by FreeBSD.
Currently NTFS partitions can only be accessed in read-only mode, but
plans are in the works for read/write access.</li>
<li><a name="rio" href="http://www.eecs.umich.edu/Rio/">Rio (RAM
I/O)</a>: The Rio project is investigating how to implement and
use reliable memory. Reliable memory enables dramatic
improvements in reliability and performance.</li>
<li><a name="softupdate" href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates"> Soft Updates:</a>
A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems</li>
<li><a name="tcfs" href="http://www.tcfs.it/">TCFS</a>:
A Transparent Cryptographic File System that is a suitable
solution to the problem of privacy for distributed filesystem. By a
@ -256,26 +211,11 @@ features that Veritas does not have.</li>
The PathConvert project</a>: A project to develop utilities which make
conversion between absolute path name and relative path name. It
brings benefits mainly to the users of NFS and WWW.</li>
<!--
<li><a name="WAFS" href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~stein/wafs/">
WAFS</a> is a simple filesystem designed to act as a logging
service for kernel subsystems. Reads and writes are keyed
by log-sequence number (LSN). All writes to WAFS are
sequential. Kernel subsystems can use this LSN service to
enforce write-ahead logging and guarantee consistency.
</li>
-->
</ul>
<a name="kernelandsecurity"></a>
<h3>Kernel, security</h3>
<ul>
<li><a name="drawbridge" href="http://drawbridge.tamu.edu/">Drawbridge</a>:
A firewall package that was developed at Texas A&amp;M University and
was designed with a large academic environment in mind. It's greatest
strength is the ability to perform high speed packet filtering for
a larger number of individual hosts within an intranetwork.</li>
<li><a name="kse" href="../kse/index.html">Kernel Scheduler Entities</a>:
A project to enhance the threading support on FreeBSD, using a threading
system similar in design to Scheduler Activations.</li>
@ -298,11 +238,6 @@ FreeBSD.</li>
<li><a name="SMP" href="&base;/smp/index.html">Symmetric MultiProcessor Support</a>:
Documentation and other information about taking advantage of multiple
processors under FreeBSD.</li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">A validation suite for testing for kernel memory leaks</a></li>
<li><a name="spy" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~abial/spy/">SPY</a>:
Allows you to monitor and/or selectively block syscalls on your
system. It could be used either as a safety monitoring device, policy
enforcement, or debugging tool.</li>
<li><a name="trustedbsd" href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD</a>:
Provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating
@ -353,9 +288,6 @@ and for ``native'' ATM traffic.</li>
Using FreeBSD to run appliance controllers, infra-red controllers,
automated telephone systems, and more.</li>
<li><a name="cam" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/ARTICLE-0001.html">CAM: New SCSI layer for FreeBSD</a>:
Details about what the new CAM SCSI layer is, and how it works.</li>
<li><a name="tokenring" href="http://www.jurai.net/~winter/tr/">The FreeBSD Token-Ring Project</a>:
Information, files, patches, and documentation about adding Token Ring
support to FreeBSD.</li>
@ -365,20 +297,11 @@ development of Scott Mitchell's Xircom CEM ethernet driver. Send
<tt>subscribe freebsd-xircom</tt> to <a
href="mailto:majordomo@lovett.com">majordomo@lovett.com</a> to
join.</li>
<li><a name="raid">List of supported RAID Cards</a>: Mike Smith's <a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~msmith/RAID/">list</a> of supported RAID
cards and their respective information.</li>
</ul>
<a name="architecture"></a>
<h3>Architecture</h3>
<ul>
<li><a name="alpha" href="../platforms/alpha.html">Porting FreeBSD to Alpha systems</a>:
Contains information on the FreeBSD Alpha port such as the status,
mailing list information, the hardware used, and other Alpha
projects.</li>
<li><a name="ia64" href="../platforms/ia64/index.html">
Porting FreeBSD to IA-64 systems</a>:
This project is responsible for porting FreeBSD to the IA-64
@ -414,14 +337,6 @@ wider range of devices, filesystem formats, executable formats, or
network services. The OSKit also works well for constructing OS-related
programs, such as boot loaders or OS-level servers atop a
microkernel.</li>
<li><a name="picobsd" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/">Small and embedded FreeBSD (PicoBSD)</a>:
PicoBSD is a one floppy version of FreeBSD which in its different
variations allows you to have secure dial-up access, small diskless
router, or even a dial-in server. All of this on only one standard
1.44MB floppy disk. It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU with 8MB of RAM,
and no hard drive is required!</li>
</ul>
<a name="misc"></a>
@ -449,10 +364,6 @@ and no hard drive is required!</li>
the nvi editor, web browser, the emacs editor, and the elvis editor,
and the supported languages are C, Yacc, and Java.</li>
<li><A name="freebsdtour" href="http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/tour/">FreeBSD source code tour</A>:
A hypertext cross referenced presentation of the FreeBSD kernel
source code. The versions indexed are -CURRENT and RELENG_4.</li>
<li><A name="enterman" href="http://www.de.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html">Enteruser</a>: A Replacement for adduser.</li>
<li><A name="acpi"