and 'soc2007' to reflect ideas still on the list from last year, but that
had owners who made significant headway. Now we can tag new projects with
'soc' if we think they are particularly student-friendly.
been approved as a mentoring organization for the program. Add the
list of example projects pulled in from the ideas page (with
class="soc" tags), proposal guidelines, student application deadlines
(due by April 1 0:00 UTC), etc.
people at the FTP directory. It's very often the list is out of
date and the list doesn't bring much useful information which can't
quickly be found by just looking in the FTP directories.
- Note that snapshots are currently done for FreeBSD 6, 7, and 8.
Discussed with: kensmith
- FireWire is locked now.
- Doug Rabson is working on a kernel level lockd, sponsored by Isilon.
The code looks promising, as such remove the lockd entries until we
can identify if there needs to be a replacement / some help or not.
- ext2fs with gjournal would be incompatible with Linux, this is not
desired. Scratch the gjournal part and reword to look out for
improvements we could obtain from NetBSD.
- iSCSI is in FreeBSD now.
- Comment out the sensors framework entry until we have a definitive
decission regarding the architecture we want to have for FreeBSD.
Suggested/noticed by: rwatson
the "main" release be MI. Bring back links to installation
instructions as a single, MI link to the handbook's installation
chapter.
Discussed with: rwatson
- We now support PowerPC, and shortly will support MIPS.
- You might want to build an appliance or embedded product on FreeBSD, as
many others do.
- We have over 17,000 applications, but most of the so-called "commercial
UNIX workstations" don't even exist any more, so don't mention them.
- Floppy disk and tape installs OBE.
There's more work to be done here.
style as newsflash entries for other students that were granted commit
bits to make it easier to see how many SoC students have been given
commit bits over the last 3 years.
- Add link to the new advisory page into the support sidebar.
- Do not include release info in advisory list as it's not that
interesting in this context.
- Try to make it more clear where to report security issues to.
- Include public key directly on web site instead of referring to FTP
site.
- Remove some stale information.
- Misc minor cleanup.
Reviewed by: cperciva, remko, bz (various versions)
