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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.
If you miss a project please send the URL and a short
description (3-10 lines) to
www@FreeBSD.ORG
Documentation
- FreeBSD Documentation Project
- FreeBSD Resources for Newbies
- Retail Outlets for FreeBSD
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FreeBSD Security How-To
FreeBSD is a very secure operating system. Since source code
is freely available, the OS is constantly going through the
review and audit. While FreeBSD comes very secure OOB
(Out-Of-Box), there are many features that can make it more
secure for those of you who are "paranoid". This How-To will
go over some steps which will help you increase overall
security of your machine.
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RELEASE/SNAP finder for FreeBSD FTP servers.
A resource that would allow anyone to find a FTP server that contains
particular releases and SNAP of FreeBSD. The database is updated daily
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The FreeBSD Diary
This page is about my experiences with FreeBSD. How I installed it,
where I got the idea behind it, and how hard/easy it was to install.
Hopefully, you'll find it to be amusing, interesting, or at the least,
pathetic. My aim is to document what I've done and at the same time
allow others to follow the progress and possibly learn from my
endeavours.
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The FreeBSD User Guide
This is a little document on how to start with the FreeBSD Operating
System (OS), a Unix variant. It's made for people who never used a
Unix OS. FreeBSD is a little hard to learn, so don't expect to be
happy the first time you meet him alone. The main reason is that it's
Command Line Interface (CLI), like MS-DOS.
- A Comprehensive
Guide to FreeBSD - 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.
- FreeBSD
How-To's for the Lazy and Hopeless is another somewhat more
light-hearted attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style
information on setting up and configuring FreeBSD.
- The
Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO - this document 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.
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Install Preview for FreeBSD 2.2.7
This is a guide illustrating the FreeBSD install program for
those new to unix and/or FreeBSD.
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FreeBSD VM
System Overview The document is meant to describe the general
workings of FreeBSD's VM system to interested parties.
Advocacy
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FreeBSD
Rocks is an initiative designed to provide the FreeBSD
community with the latest FreeBSD news, software and resources.
All areas include search facilities, making keyword searching of
historical posts a breeze. The pages are updated daily and
everyone is invited to sign up an post an article. If it happened
today, you'll see it on FreeBSDRocks.
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FreeBSD vs. Linux: a bunch of comparisons between FreeBSD and
Linux, which is another publically-distributed free UNIX-like OS
for PC's.
- Daemon
News
- 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.
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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.
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The Free Software Bazaar
is a market place designed to increase the amount of free software,
to support free software developers, and to more accurately measure
the demand for free software.
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FreeBSD ezine
The FreeBSD 'zine is a monthly collection of easy to read (we hope)
articles written by FreeBSD users and administrators just like you.
Applications
Networking
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.
- Coda is
a distributed file system. Among its features are disconnected
operation, good security model, server replication and
persistent client side caching.
- DEVFS
- Mode locking
- Make the namei interface reflexive
- NFS client and server locking
- NTFS Driver for FreeBSD
- Soft Updates:
A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems
- TCFS
is a Transparent Cryptographic File System that is a suitable
solution to the problem of privacy for distributed file system. By a
deeper integration between the encryption service and the file system,
it results in a complete trasparency of use to the user
applications. Files are stored in encrypted form and are decrypted
before they are read. The encryption/decryption process takes place on
the client machine and thus the encryption/decryption key never
travels on the network.
- Tertiary Disk is a
storage system architecture to create large disk storage systems
that avoid the disadvantages of custom built disk arrays. The
name comes from twin goals: to have the cost per megabyte and
capacity of tape libraries and the performance of magnetic
disks. We use commodity, off the shelf components to develop a
scalable, low cost, terabyte capacity disk system. Our target is
to build a complete storage system with about 30-50% extra to
the cost of the raw disk. Tertiary Disk uses PCs connected by a
switched network to host a large number of disks. Our prototype
consists of 20 200MHz PC PCs, which host 370 8GB disks. The PCs
are connected through a 100Mbps Ethernet switch.
- Vinum: a logical volume manager
- The
PathConvert project is 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.
Kernel, security
Device drivers
Architecture
Misc
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