In addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions. Follow the links below to learn more about these exciting projects.

Documentation

• FreeBSD Documentation Project
• FreeBSD Resources for Newbies
• Retail Outlets for FreeBSD
• Daemon News
• FreeBSD Security How-To

Applications

• Java on FreeBSD
• FreeBSD Mozilla Group
• MultiMedia
• FreeBSD Ports Collection
• FreeBSD Ports distfiles survey
• Voice Answering Machine
• FreeBSD X11 Desktop Theme Contest

Networking

• ALTQ: bandwidth management for applications
• KAME Project, a free IPv6/IPsec stack for BSD
• Point to Point Protocol (PPP)
• Secure MobileIP via IP

File system

• Arla is a free AFS client implementation. The main goal is to make a fully functional client with all capabilities of normal AFS. Other planned and implemented things are all the normal management tools and a server.
• DEVFS
• Mode locking
• Make the namei interface reflexive
• NFS client and server locking
• soft update code
• Vinum: a logical volume manager

Kernel, security

• Drawbridge, a firewall package
• FreeBSD Hardening Project, a more secure environment
• Metacomputing
• DHCP configuration
• Handling more than 32 signals
• Working LDAP for FreeBSD
• Splashkit, displays a graphical image while booting
• Symmetric MultiProcessor Support
• A validation suite for testing for kernel memory leaks

Device drivers

• BSD ATM: implementation of ATM internetworking under 4.4BSD
• High-precision timekeeping with FreeBSD
• Home Automation
• i4b: ISDN for FreeBSD
• CAM: New SCSI layer for FreeBSD
• The FreeBSD Token-Ring Project
• FreeBSD USB driver development

Architecture

• Porting FreeBSD to Alpha systems
• Porting FreeBSD to Sparc systems

Misc

• GLOBAL common source code tag system
• PAO: Mobile Computing page, laptops running FreeBSD
• Small and embedded FreeBSD
• Replacement of gnu awk with bwk's "one true awk"
• The FreeBSD Counter Page page is the start of a project which will attempt to determine the world-wide installed base of FreeBSD users. The FreeBSD development community currently has only the vaguest idea as to how large our user base is, and this makes it all the more difficult to persuade hardware and software vendors to take it seriously.

• BSD CD Giveaway List If somebody has a CD to give away (recipient pays for shipping) or to lend locally, they can put their email address on the list. Hardware and literature can also be given away. We encourage people to donate CDs to local libraries and put them on the list as well.