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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<head>
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<title>&title;</title>
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<cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
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</head>
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<body class="navinclude.developers">
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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 feel that a project is missing, 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="#storage">Storage</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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<li><a href="summerofcode.html">Google Summer of Code</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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A list of resources to help those new to FreeBSD and &unix; in
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general.</li>
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<li><a name="diary" href="http://www.freebsddiary.org/">The FreeBSD
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Diary</a>: 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="&url.books;/developers-handbook/index.html">
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The FreeBSD Developers' Handbook</a></li>
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<li><a href="&url.articles;/contributing-ports/index.html">
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Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection</a></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.</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="kde" href="http://freebsd.kde.org">KDE on FreeBSD</a>:
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This contains links to the latest KDE releases for FreeBSD, as well as
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documentation and tutorials about how to install and run KDE on
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FreeBSD. Project news and a FreeBSD-specific FAQ are also
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available.</li>
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<li><a name="mono" href="http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:FreeBSD">
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Mono on FreeBSD</a>:
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Here you can find information about the state of Mono and C# for FreeBSD.</li>
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<li><a name="openoffice" href="http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/">
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OpenOffice.org on FreeBSD</a>:
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Information about the various OpenOffice.org ports.</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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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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<li><a href="http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org/">Pointyhat</a>: Is a server which
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checks the Ports Collection and keeps package building logs and error
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logs for each port.</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="netperf" href="&base;/projects/netperf/index.html">Netperf</a>:
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Network stack optimization for the FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x kernels, a follow-on
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to the SMPng network stack locking work for FreeBSD 5.3. This project is
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exploring and implementing optimizations strategies for a multi-threaded
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network stack.</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="SYSLOG-SECURE" href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3164.html">SYSLOG-SECURE</a>:
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In August 2001 a standard of syslog was made: RFC3164. This RFC
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describes some extensions to add security to syslog. A project
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started in 2002 to adapt RFC3164 to the 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 optionally some tools to verify or manage the security
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would be made.
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All help is welcome. Send an email to albert@ons-huis.net for info.</li>
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</ul>
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<a name="storage"></a>
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<h3>Storage</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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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="bigdisk" href="&base;/projects/bigdisk/index.html">Big Disk</a>:
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The goal of the <em>Large data storage in FreeBSD</em> project is to make
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FreeBSD ready for multi-terabyte drive/volume capacities and file systems.</li>
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<li><a name="coda" href="http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/">Coda</a>:
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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="journaling" href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/">
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Journaling versus Soft Updates</a>: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems.</li>
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<li><a name="tcfs" href="http://www.tcfs.unisa.it/">TCFS</a>:
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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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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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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>: A project 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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</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="lotteryscheduling"
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href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dpetrou/research.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="openbsm" href="http://www.OpenBSM.org/">OpenBSM</a>: An open
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source implementation of Sun's Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit API and file
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format. OpenBSM provides the userland libraries, tools, and documentation
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for the TrustedBSD audit implementation that will be integrated into
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FreeBSD.</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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<li><a name="kernelstresstest"
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href="http://www.holm.cc/stress/">Kernel Stress Test Suite</a>: The
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purpose of this stress test is to crash the system. The stress test
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is composed of small test programs and scripts. Each test targets a
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specific area of the kernel. The key concept of this test suite is
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chaos. Each test sleeps for a random number of seconds before it
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starts up in a random number of invocations.</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="busdma" href="&base;/projects/busdma/index.html">busdma
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and SMPng driver conversion</a>: busdma provides a portable abstraction
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to the Direct Memory Access (DMA) hardware primitives used by many high
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performance device drivers. By using this abstraction, device driver
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authors avoid adding platform-specific DMA management code, improving
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the portability of drivers between hardware architectures. This page
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also tracks the progress of drivers towards being SMPng-safe.</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://chuck.cranor.org/p/bsdatm.pdf"> 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="homeauto" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/HomeAuto.html">Home Automation</a>:
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Using FreeBSD to run appliance controllers, infra-red controllers,
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automated telephone systems, and more.</li>
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<li><a name="tokenring" href="http://www.jurai.net/~winter/tr/">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="xircomcem">Xircom CEM Ethernet Driver</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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</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="ia64" href="../platforms/ia64/index.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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SysVR4 Emulation</a>: This 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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</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="nanobsd" href="&url.articles;/nanobsd/index.html">NanoBSD</a>:
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NanoBSD is a tool designed to create a possibly reduced FreeBSD
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system image, which is suited to fit on a Compact Flash card
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(or other mass storage medium) in a way which is suitable for
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use in appliance like applications. The FreeBSD documentation
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collection includes an introductory
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<a href="&url.articles;/nanobsd/index.html">article about NanoBSD</a>,
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which includes useful tips about setting up, running and
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using NanoBSD.</li>
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<li><a name="global" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/global/global.html">GLOBAL</a>:
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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,
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and the supported languages are C, Yacc, and Java.</li>
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<li><a name="enterman" href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html">Enteruser</a>: A Replacement for adduser.</li>
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<li><a name="acpi"
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href="&base;/projects/acpi/">ACPI on FreeBSD</a>:
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A Project created to get ACPI working smoothly on FreeBSD.</li>
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<li><a name="binup"
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href="http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/">Binary
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Updater</a>: FreeBSD Update is a system for automatically
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building, distributing, fetching, and applying binary security
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updates for FreeBSD. This makes it possible to easily track
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the FreeBSD security branches without the need for fetching
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the source tree and recompiling (except on the machine
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building the updates, of course). Updates are
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cryptographically signed; they are also distributed as binary
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diffs using a binary diff tool, which dramatically reduces
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the bandwidth used.</li>
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<li><a name="c99" href="&base;/projects/c99/index.html">The
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FreeBSD C99 & &posix; Conformance Project</a>: This project aims to
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implement all requirements of the ISO 9899:1999 (C99) and
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IEEE 1003.1-2001 (POSIX) standards.</li>
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<li><a name="cvsweb" href="cvsweb.html">CVSweb</a>: A WWW
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interface for CVS repositories with which you can browse a file
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hierarchy on your browser to view each file's revision history
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in a very handy manner.</li>
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<li><a name="flcl"
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href="http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/"> The FreeBSD
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Laptop Compatibility List</a>: A comprehensive database of
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laptops and PCMCIA cards that work with FreeBSD. This site
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contains detailed information about known hardware and
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software issues.</li>
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<li><a name="tetintegration" href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/TetIntegration">TET
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Integration</a>: The Test Execution Toolkit from <a
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href="http://www.opengroup.org/">The Open Group</a> is a
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light-weight open-source test execution framework that
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supports distributed testing. This project investigates
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using TET and existing TET-based open-source standards-compliance
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test suites (VSX-PCTS, VSC-Lite, VSTH-Lite, VSW5 and others) in
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FreeBSD.</li>
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