From a1416f11e7f1b6f8d2fb22515feceaefd7209dd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Murray Stokely The FreeBSD Project is proud to have taken part in the Google Summer of Code
- again in
- 2006. By all accounts, the FreeBSD participation in this
+ again in 2006. By all accounts, the FreeBSD participation in this
program was an unqualified success. We received over 150
- applications for student projects, amongst which 13 were selected
+ applications for student projects, amongst which 14 were selected
for funding. These student projects included security research,
- improved installation tools, new utilities, and more. Many of
- the students have continued working on their FreeBSD projects even
- after the official close of the program. We are happy to see
- continued development in our source code repository by these
+ improved installation tools, new utilities, and more. Many of the
+ students have continued working on their FreeBSD projects even after
+ the official close of the program. We are happy to report than all 14 of our students this year
+ successfully completed the program. There were many other strong
+ applications which we unfortunately couldn't fund and many of these
+ students also spent the summer working on FreeBSD. We are happy to
+ see continued development in our source code repository by these
talented young programmers and we look forward to working with more
students in the future.
The goal of this project was to create a virtual storage class for the -GEOM framework in FreeBSD that would allow creating "overcommited" +GEOM framework in FreeBSD that would allow creating "overcommitted" storage devices, with a size larger than that of available physical storage (e.g. hard drives). The project was completed successfully, and the result is available on the project's home page. It's expected