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<a name="development"></a>
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<p>In addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number
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of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand
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FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions. Follow the links
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below to learn more about these exciting projects.</p>
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If you miss a project please send the URL and a short
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description (3-10 lines) to
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<A HREF="../mailto.html">www@FreeBSD.ORG</A>
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<p>In addition, some of these projects regularly submit status reports,
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which can be viewed on the <a href="../news/status/status.html">status
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reports page</a>.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#documentation">Documentation</a></li>
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<li><a href="../advocacy/index.html">Advocacy</a></li>
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<li><a href="#applications">Applications</a></li>
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<li><a href="#networking">Networking</a></li>
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<li><a href="#filesystem">Filesystem</a></li>
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<li><a href="#kernelandsecurity">Kernel and Security</a></li>
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<li><a href="#devicedrivers">Device drivers</a></li>
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<li><a href="#architecture">Architecture</a></li>
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<li><a href="#misc">Misc</a></li>
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</ul>
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<a name="documentation"></a>
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<h3>Documentation</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../docproj/docproj.html">FreeBSD Documentation Project</a>
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The FreeBSD Documentation Project is a group of people who maintain
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and write the documentation (such as the Handbook and FAQ) for the
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FreeBSD project. If you want to help with the documentation project,
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subscribe to the freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
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mailing list and participate.</li>
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<li><a name="newbies" href="newbies.html">FreeBSD Resources for Newbies</a>
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is a list of resources to help those new to FreeBSD and UNIX in
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general. There is also a
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freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG mailing list.</li>
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<li><a name="retail" href="http://www.bafug.org/purchase/FbsdRetail.html">Retail Outlets for FreeBSD</a>
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is a list of worldwide retailers where FreeBSD can be purchased.</li>
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<li><a name="securityhowto" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jkb/howto.html">
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FreeBSD Security How-To</a>
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FreeBSD is a very secure operating system. Since source code
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is freely available, the OS is constantly going through the
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review and audit. While FreeBSD comes very secure OOB
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(Out-Of-Box), there are many features that can make it more
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secure for those of you who are "paranoid". This How-To will
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go over some steps which will help you increase overall
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security of your machine.</li>
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<li><a name="BSDsites" href="http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/">
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RELEASE/SNAP finder for FreeBSD FTP servers</a>.
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A resource that would allow anyone to find a FTP server that contains
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particular releases and SNAP of FreeBSD. The database is updated daily
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at 3am Melbourne time (10 hours ahead of UTC).</li>
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<li><a name="diary" href="http://www.freebsddiary.org/">The FreeBSD
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Diary</a> is a collection of how-to entries aimed at UNIX
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novices. The aim is to provide a set of step-by-step guides to
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installing and configuring various ports.</li>
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<li><A HREF="http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/">A Comprehensive
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Guide to FreeBSD</A> - an attempt at a more readable,
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"book-like" tutorial explaining the FreeBSD Operating
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System. Intended for people new to both FreeBSD and
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UNIX. Currently a work in progress.</li>
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<li><A HREF="http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/">FreeBSD
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How-To's for the Lazy and Hopeless</A> is another somewhat more
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light-hearted attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style
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information on setting up and configuring FreeBSD.</li>
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<li><A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD.html">The
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Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO</a> describes how to
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use Linux and FreeBSD on the same system. It introduces FreeBSD
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and discusses how the two operating systems can cooperate,
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e.g. by sharing swap space.</li>
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<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~rpratt/227/index.html">
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Install Preview for FreeBSD 2.2.7</a>
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This is a guide illustrating the FreeBSD install program for
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those new to unix and/or FreeBSD.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html">
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Programmer's Documentation Project</a></li>
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<li><a name="cookbook"
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href="http://home.austin.rr.com/aaweber/CookBook/cookbook.html">
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The FreeBSD Cook Book</a>
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Ok, you got FreeBSD installed, now what? Here are some suggested
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solutions to common problems you can implement with the knowledge
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you now have. This document is styled after the electronics cook
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books with some recipes for some common types of installations.
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Each "recipe" has some recommended minimum hardware, specific
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software to use, and most important the configuration information
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required to get the system running correctly.</li>
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<li><a name="freebsd-corp-net-guide"
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href="http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/">
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The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide</a>
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This Web site serves as a supplement to The FreeBSD Corporate
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Networker's Guide, with the principal goal of enhancing its
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usefulness. While books like fictional novels can be used and enjoyed
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for hundreds of years after initial publication, technical manuals
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like the Networker's Guide are obsoleted in a few years by changes in
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the product they are written for.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="applications"></a>
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<h3>Applications</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a name="java" href="../java/index.html">Java on FreeBSD</a>
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This contains information on where to obtain the latest JDK for
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FreeBSD, how to install and run it, and a list of java software that
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you may find interesting. Please note that the JDK is unsupported on
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versions of FreeBSD prior to 2.2.</li>
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<li><a name="gnome" href="../gnome/index.html">GNOME on FreeBSD</a>
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This contains information on where to obtain the latest GNOME for
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FreeBSD, how to install and run it, latest project news and
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updates, FAQ covering FreeBSD-specific GNOME issues, application
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porting guidelines and much more.</li>
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<li><a name="multimedia" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~faulkner/multimedia/mm.html">MultiMedia</a>
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A resource of links to information and software pertaining to the world
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of multimedia in the UNIX world.</li>
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<li><a href="../ports/index.html">FreeBSD Ports Collection</a>
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The FreeBSD Ports Collection provides an easy way to compile and
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install a wide range of applications with a minimum amount of effort.
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A list of current ports is available along with a search mechanism
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to see if a specific application exists in the Ports Collection.</li>
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<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fenner/portsurvey/">FreeBSD Ports distfiles survey</a>
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is a list which checks the Ports Collection for unfetchable distfiles
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and provides a summary for each port.</li>
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<li><a href="http://FreshPorts.org/">FreshPorts</a> provides the most up-to-date list of
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ports and port changes. Add your favourite ports to your watch list and receive email
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notification of any changes.</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="networking"></a>
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<h3>Networking</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a name="altq" href="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html">ALTQ</a>: bandwidth management for applications</li>
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<li><a name="kame" href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME Project</a>, a free IPv6/IPsec stack for BSD</li>
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<li><a name="ppp" href="http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html">Point to Point Protocol (PPP)</a></li>
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<li><a name="smn" href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/research/SMN/">Secure MobileIP via IP</a></li>
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<li><a name="SYSLOG-SECURE">SYSLOG-SECURE</a>:
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In August 2001 a standard of syslog was made: RFC3164. This
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to describe some extensions tot syslog to add security. The project I
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started in 2002 is to adapt RFC3164 to FreeBSD version of syslog, and to add
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some security extensions. At least syslog-sign. Both libc and syslogd will
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be modified. And optional some tools to verify/manage the security will
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made.
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All help is welcome. Send an email to albert@ons-huis.net for info.
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</ul>
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<a name="filesystem"></a>
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<h3>File system</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a name="afs" href="http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/">Arla</a>
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is a free AFS client implementation. The main goal is to
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make a fully functional client with all capabilities of normal AFS.
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Other planned and implemented things are all the normal management
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tools and a server.</li>
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<li><a name="coda" href="http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/">Coda</a> is
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a distributed filesystem. Among its features are disconnected
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operation, good security model, server replication and persistent
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client side caching.</li>
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<li><a name="crossfs" href="http://crossfs.bizland.com/cxvfs.html">
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crossFS Virtual File System</a>
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is based on FreeBSD Virtual File System and provides a
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framework for porting UNIX based filesystems to Windows NT systems.
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</li>
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<li><a name="cruptfs" href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/software/">cryptfs</a> encrypts file names and data pages using Blowfish.</li>
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<li><a name="elephant" href="http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~feeley/DSG%20Web/dsg_p_elephant.html">Elephant</a>: The File System that Never Forgets
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<li><a name="journaling" href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/">
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Journaling versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">Mode locking</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">Make the namei interface reflexive</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">NFS client and server locking</a></li>
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<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>
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<li><a href="http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs/">NTFS Driver for FreeBSD</a>
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This driver allows Windows NTFS partitions to be mounted by FreeBSD.
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Currently NTFS partitions can only be accessed in read-only mode, but
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plans are in the works for read/write access.</li>
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<li><a name="rio" href="http://www.eecs.umich.edu/Rio/">Rio (RAM
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I/O)</a>: The Rio project is investigating how to implement and
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use reliable memory. Reliable memory enables dramatic
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improvements in reliability and performance.</li>
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<li><a name="softupdate" href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates"> Soft Updates:</a>
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A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems</li>
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<li><a name="tcfs" href="http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/">TCFS</a>
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is a Transparent Cryptographic File System that is a suitable
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solution to the problem of privacy for distributed filesystem. By a
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deeper integration between the encryption service and the filesystem,
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it results in a complete transparency of use to the user
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applications. Files are stored in encrypted form and are decrypted
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before they are read. The encryption/decryption process takes place on
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the client machine and thus the encryption/decryption key never
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travels on the network.</li>
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<li><a name="Tertiary" href="http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Td/">Tertiary Disk</a>
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is a storage system architecture to create large disk storage systems
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that avoid the disadvantages of custom built disk arrays. The
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name comes from twin goals: to have the cost per megabyte and
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capacity of tape libraries and the performance of magnetic
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disks. We use commodity, off the shelf components to develop a
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scalable, low cost, terabyte capacity disk system. Our target is
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to build a complete storage system with about 30-50% extra to
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the cost of the raw disk. Tertiary Disk uses PCs connected by a
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switched network to host a large number of disks. Our prototype
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consists of 20 200MHz PC PCs, which host 370 8GB disks. The PCs
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are connected through a 100Mbps Ethernet switch.</li>
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<li><a name="vinum" href="http://www.vinumvm.org/">Vinum</a>
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is a logical volume manager modeled after the VERITAS volume manager.
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However, it is not a clone of Veritas, and attempts to solve a
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number of problems more elegantly than Veritas. It also offers
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features that Veritas does not have.</li>
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<li><a name="PathConvert" href="http://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert/">
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The PathConvert project</a> is to develop utilities which make
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conversion between absolute path name and relative path name. It
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brings benefits mainly to the users of NFS and WWW.</li>
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<li><a name="v9fs" href="http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich/">
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V9FS: Memory-based filesystem for FreeBSD</a> It will (we hope)
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become the basis of private name spaces for FreeBSD in the
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future. It provides a filesystem that uses only memory for
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directories, inodes, and data. This is not at all like mfs,
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since mfs uses memory for "disk blocks", and essentially acts as
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the device for UFS. V9FS in contrast is a first-class citizen
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and is a full mountable filesystem. No writeup yet.</li>
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<li><a name="WAFS" href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~stein/wafs/">
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WAFS</a> is a simple filesystem designed to act as a logging
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service for kernel subsystems. Reads and writes are keyed
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by log-sequence number (LSN). All writes to WAFS are
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sequential. Kernel subsystems can use this LSN service to
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enforce write-ahead logging and guarantee consistency.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="kernelandsecurity"></a>
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<h3>Kernel, security</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a name="drawbridge" href="http://drawbridge.tamu.edu/">Drawbridge</a>
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is a firewall package that was developed at Texas A&M University and
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was designed with a large academic environment in mind. It's greatest
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strength is the ability to perform high speed packet filtering for
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a larger number of individual hosts within an intranetwork.</li>
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<li><a name="lotteryscheduling"
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href="http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/computing/software/lottery-sched.html">
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Lottery Scheduling Kernel</a>: This work is based on
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Waldspurger's lottery scheduling algorithm, which implements
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proportional-share resource management. The primary advantages
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are that users have strict control over the relative execution
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rates of their processes, and users are load-insulated from each
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other, preventing one user from dominating the CPU.</li>
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<li><a name="metacomputing" href="http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich/">Metacomputing</a></li>
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<li><a name="DHCP" href="http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/dhcp.html">DHCP configuration</a>
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How to set up DHCP on FreeBSD systems for use with cable modems, etc.</li>
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<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">Working LDAP for FreeBSD</a></li>
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<li><a name="SMP" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html">Symmetric MultiProcessor Support</a>
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Documentation and other information about taking advantage of multiple
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processors under FreeBSD.</li>
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<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">A validation suite for testing for kernel memory leaks</a></li>
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<li><a name="spy" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~abial/spy/">SPY</a>
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allows you to monitor and/or selectively block syscalls on your
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system. It could be used either as a safety monitoring device, policy
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enforcement, or debugging tool.</li>
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<li><a name="trustedbsd" href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD</a>
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provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating
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system. This includes features such as fine-grained privileges (capabilities),
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Access Control Lists, and Mandatory Access Control. These features are
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being integrated back into the base FreeBSD distribution, as well as being
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ported to other BSD-derived systems.</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="devicedrivers"></a>
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<h3>Device drivers</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a name="fdd" href="http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/">BSD Driver Database</a>
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Just because you don't have the time to write the driver
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yourself doesn't mean you can't still help. The idea behind
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the BSD Driver Database is to help individuals with
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hardware that needs supporting get in touch with driver
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developers with the knowledge to write the support for the
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hardware. This is a list of drivers currently under
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development that could stand to gain from time or resources
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you may have to offer.</li>
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<li><a name="deviceframework" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~dfr/devices.html">
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A New Device Framework for FreeBSD</a></li>
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<li><a name="atm" href="http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck/tech/bsdatm/bsdatm.html"> BSD ATM: implementation of ATM internetworking under 4.4BSD</a>:
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New computer applications in areas such as multimedia, imaging,
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and distributed computing demand high levels of performance from
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computer networks. ATM-based networking solutions provide one
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possible alternative to meeting these performance needs.
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However, the complexity of ATM over traditional networks such as
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Ethernet has proven to be a barrier to its being used. In this
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paper we present the design and implementation of BSD ATM, a
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light-weight and efficient ATM software layer for BSD-based
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operating systems that requires minimal changes to the operating
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system. BSD ATM can be used both for IP-based networking traffic
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and for ``native'' ATM traffic.</li>
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<li><a name="NVIDIA" href="http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/">
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The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver
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Initiative</a> - An initiative aiming for NVIDIA supported 3D drivers for
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FreeBSD. This is to be accomplished with help from the FreeBSD developer
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community as well as NVIDIA. Please visit the web page for regular news
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updates and to find out how you can help.</li>
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<li><a name="timekeeping" href="http://phk.freebsd.dk/rover.html">High-precision timekeeping with FreeBSD</a>
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How to create a NTP stratum 1 server with state of the art
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performance.</li>
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<li><a name="homeauto" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/HomeAuto.html">Home Automation</a>
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with FreeBSD such as appliance controllers, infra-red controllers,
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automated telephone systems, and more.</li>
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<li><a name="isdn" href="http://www.freebsd-support.de/i4b/">i4b: ISDN for FreeBSD</a>
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ISDN4BSD (or i4b for short) is a package for interfacing a computer
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running FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or BSD/OS to ISDN. The only ISDN
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protocol currently supported is the BRI protocol. ISDN4BSD allows you
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to make IP network connections by using either IP packets sent in raw
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HDLC frames on the B channel, or by using sychronous PPP. For
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telephony, ISDN4BSD can answer incoming phone calls like an answering
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machine.</li>
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<li><a name="cam" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/">CAM: New SCSI layer for FreeBSD</a>
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Details about what the new CAM SCSI layer is, and how it works.</li>
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<li><a name="tokenring" href="http://www.jurai.net/~winter/tr/tr.html">The FreeBSD Token-Ring Project</a>
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Information, files, patches, and documentation about adding Token Ring
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support to FreeBSD.</li>
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<li><a name="usb" href="http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/usb.pl"> FreeBSD USB driver development</a>
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The NetBSD USB stack has been ported to FreeBSD. Together with them we
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have started developing the drivers for many devices using the USB bus.
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Have a look on the webpage if you want to join the effort or you want to
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have a look on the devices that are being supported.</li>
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<li><a name="awe64"
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href="http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tanimura/awepnp-freebsd.html">Setting
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up PnP (Plug-and-Play) and the AWE64, AWE32, or SB32 soundcards with FreeBSD.</a></li>
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<li><a name="xircomcem"></a>A mailing list exists for further
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development of Scott Mitchell's Xircom CEM ethernet driver. Send
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<tt>subscribe freebsd-xircom</tt> to <a
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href="mailto:majordomo@lovett.com">majordomo@lovett.com</a> to
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join.</li>
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<li><a name="raid"></a>Mike Smith's <a
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href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~msmith/RAID/">list</a> of supported RAID
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cards and their respective information.</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="architecture"></a>
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<h3>Architecture</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a name="alpha" href="../platforms/alpha.html">Porting FreeBSD to Alpha systems</a>
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Contains information on the FreeBSD Alpha port such as the status,
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mailing list information, the hardware used, and other Alpha
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projects.</li>
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<li><a name="ia64" href="../platforms/ia64.html">
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Porting FreeBSD to IA-64 systems</a>
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This project is responsible for porting FreeBSD to the IA-64
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architecture. Direct any questions specific to this project to the
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freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org mailing list. </li>
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<li><a name="ppc" href="../platforms/ppc.html">Porting FreeBSD to PowerPC systems.</a>
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Contains information on the FreeBSD PPC port, such as mailing list
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information and so on.</li>
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<li><a name="sparc" href="../platforms/sparc.html">Porting FreeBSD to SPARC systems</a>
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Contains information on the FreeBSD SPARC port including a FAQ,
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some early boot code, information on SPARC processors and motherboards,
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and other SPARC projects.</li>
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<li><a name="sysvr4" href="http://slash.dotat.org/~newton/freebsd-svr4/">
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The SysVR4 Emulation</a> page describes an SysVR4 emulator for
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FreeBSD. It is currently capable of running (or walking, in some
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cases) a wide-ish variety of SysV executables taken from Solaris/x86
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2.5.1 and 2.6 systems. I have reason to believe that it will also run
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SCO UnixWare and SCO OpenServer binaries.</li>
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<li><a name="oskit" href="http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/">The OSKit</a>
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The OSKit is a framework and a set of 31 component libraries oriented
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to operating systems, together with extensive documentation. By
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providing in a modular way not only most of the infrastructure
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"grunge" needed by an OS, but also many higher-level components, the
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OSKit's goal is to lower the barrier to entry to OS R&D and to
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lower its costs. The OSKit makes it vastly easier to create a new OS,
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port an existing OS to the x86 (or in the future, to other
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architectures supported by the OSkit), or enhance an OS to support a
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wider range of devices, filesystem formats, executable formats, or
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network services. The OSKit also works well for constructing OS-related
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programs, such as boot loaders or OS-level servers atop a
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microkernel.</li>
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<li><a name="picobsd" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/">Small and embedded FreeBSD (PicoBSD)</a>
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PicoBSD is a one floppy version of FreeBSD which in its different
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variations allows you to have secure dial-up access, small diskless
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router, or even a dial-in server. All of this on only one standard
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1.44MB floppy disk. It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU with 8MB of RAM,
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and no hard drive is required!</li>
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<li><a name="buds" href="http://www.mozie.org/projects/buds/index.html">
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BUDS: BSD Unix Distributed Simple-ly</a>
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Provide a general purpose clustering system for further
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development into parallel-multi-processors. This system is
|
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intended to be generic in nature, but powerful. It is not intend
|
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for computationally intensive applications, nor is it intended
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for highly complex interdependent applications.</li>
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<li>The <a name="Eclipse"
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href="http://www.bell-labs.com/project/eclipse/release/">Eclipse</a>
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Operating System is a testbed for Quality of Service (QoS) that is
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being developed at Information Sciences Research Center in Bell-Labs,
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Lucent Technologies.
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Eclipse provides flexible and fine-grained QoS support for
|
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applications. Its design allows legacy or Eclipse-unaware applications
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to provide QoS without the need of modification or recompilation. A
|
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simple API is provided for (new) applications to take advantage of
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the fine-grained QoS support.
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Currently, the Eclipse project targets QoS support for server
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applications, in particular, to differentiate the performance of
|
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different web sites hosted on the same platform (see the Apache
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examples). </li>
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</ul>
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<a name="misc"></a>
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<h3>Misc</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a name="global" href="http://www.tamacom.com/global/">GLOBAL</a>
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is a common source code tag system that works the same way across
|
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diverse environments. Currently, it supports the shell command line,
|
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the nvi editor, web browser, the emacs editor, and the elvis editor,
|
|
and the supported languages are C, Yacc, and Java.</li>
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<li><a name="pao" href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/">PAO: Mobile Computing page, laptops running FreeBSD</a>
|
|
PAO enables FreeBSD to drive many PCMCIA (PC-card) cards and also
|
|
provides you with PC-card "hotplug" on your laptop machines running
|
|
FreeBSD. It also contains some improvements and bug fixes for the
|
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APM BIOS driver.</li>
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|
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<li><A name="freebsdxr" HREF="http://lxr.linux.no/freebsd/source">FreeBSD cross reference</A>.
|
|
A hypertext cross referenced presentation of the FreeBSD kernel
|
|
sourecode. The version indexed is -CURRENT, and it is updated every
|
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night.</li>
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<li><A name="enterman" HREF="http://www.de.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html">Enteruser: A Replacement for Adduser</A></li>
|
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<li><A name="libh" HREF="libh.html">FreeBSD libh Project</A>.
|
|
Libh is a wrapper that allows tcl scripts to
|
|
run in a sort of sandbox and interface to other libraries.
|
|
Some of the stock libraries that come with libh that can be
|
|
called from the Tcl scripts include a generic user interface library,
|
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which uses Turbo Vision for its console backend, and Qt for its X11
|
|
backend. Libh also includes a new package system that uses Zip
|
|
archives and various per-package scripts among other things. It also
|
|
includes the beginnings of a new sysinstall.</li>
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|
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<li><A name="binup" HREF="updater.html">Binary Updater
|
|
(binup)</A>. The FreeBSD Binary Updater Project aims to
|
|
provide a secure mechanism for the distribution of binary
|
|
updates for FreeBSD. This system is a client / server
|
|
mechanism that allows clients to install any known "profile"
|
|
or release of FreeBSD over the network. Where a specific
|
|
profile might contain a specific set of FreeBSD software to
|
|
install, additional packages, and configuration actions that
|
|
make it more ideal for a specific environment (ie FreeBSD 4.3
|
|
Secure Web server profile).</li>
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|
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<li><a name="c99" href="&base;/projects/c99/index.html">The
|
|
FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project</a> aims to
|
|
implement all requirements of the ISO 9899:1999 (C99) and
|
|
IEEE 1003.1-2001 (POSIX) standards.</li>
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