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novices.  The aim is to provide a set of step-by-step guides to
installing and configuring various ports.</li>

<li><A HREF="http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/">A Comprehensive
Guide to FreeBSD</A>: 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.</li>

<li><A HREF="http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/">FreeBSD
How-To's for the Lazy and Hopeless</A>: Another somewhat more
light-hearted attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style
information on setting up and configuring FreeBSD.</li>

<li><A HREF="http://home.worldonline.dk/nkbj/Linux+FreeBSD/Linux+FreeBSD.html">The
Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO</a>: 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.</li>

<li><a href="&url.books;/developers-handbook/index.html">
The FreeBSD Developers' Handbook</a></li>


like the Networker's Guide are obsoleted in a few years by changes in
the product they are written for.
</li>
<li><h3>Unmaintained Pages</h3>
<ul>
<li><A HREF="http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/">A Comprehensive
Guide to FreeBSD</A>: 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.</li>

<li><A HREF="http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/">FreeBSD
How-To's for the Lazy and Hopeless</A>: Another somewhat more
light-hearted attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style
information on setting up and configuring FreeBSD.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

<a name="applications"></a>

to the SMPng network stack locking work for FreeBSD 5.3.  This project is
exploring and implementing optimizations strategies for a multi-threaded
network stack.<li>
<li><a name="dingo" href="&base;/projects/dingo/index.html">Dingo</a>:
<em>FreeBSD Network Cleanup and Consolidation Project</em>, is a
collection of work that needs to be done to clean up and advance the
FreeBSD network stack.  The goal is to remove duplicated functionality
while also adding new features that will make FreeBSD simple to use,
both for the network engineer, experimenter and the first time user.</li>
<li><a name="altq"  href="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html">ALTQ</a>: bandwidth management for applications.</li>
<li><a name="kame" href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME Project</a>: A free IPv6/IPsec stack for BSD.</li>
<li><a name="ppp" href="http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html">Point to Point Protocol (PPP)</a></li>
<li><a name="smn" href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/research/SMN/">Secure MobileIP via IP</a></li>
<li><a name="SYSLOG-SECURE">SYSLOG-SECURE</a>:
In August 2001 a standard of syslog was made: RFC3164. This RFC
describes some extensions to add security to syslog. The project

be modified. And optional some tools to verify/manage the security will
made.
All help is welcome. Send an email to albert@ons-huis.net for info.</li>
<li><h3>Unmaintained Pages</h3>
<ul>
<li><a name="dingo" href="&base;/projects/dingo/index.html">Dingo</a>:
<em>FreeBSD Network Cleanup and Consolidation Project</em>, is a
collection of work that needs to be done to clean up and advance the
FreeBSD network stack.  The goal is to remove duplicated functionality
while also adding new features that will make FreeBSD simple to use,
both for the network engineer, experimenter and the first time user.</li>
<li><a name="altq"  href="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html">ALTQ</a>: bandwidth management for applications.</li>
<li><a name="ppp" href="http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html">Point to Point Protocol (PPP)</a></li>
<li><a name="smn" href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/research/SMN/">Secure MobileIP via IP</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

<a name="storage"></a>
<h3>Storage</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~yar/hfs/">HFS and HFS
Plus in FreeBSD</a>: This project is aimed at integrating
HFS support from Darwin into FreeBSD.</li>

<li><a name="afs" href="http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/">Arla</a>:
A free AFS client implementation.  The main goal is to

operation, good security model, server replication and persistent
client side caching.</li>

<li><a name="cryptfs" href="http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/">Cryptfs</a>: Encrypts file names and data pages using Blowfish.</li>

<li><a name="journaling" href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/">
Journaling versus Soft Updates</a>: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems.</li>

<li><a name="softupdate" href="http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/index.html"> Soft Updates:</a>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">Make the namei interface reflexive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">NFS client and server locking</a></li>

<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>

<li><a href="http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs/">NTFS Driver for FreeBSD</a>:
This driver allows Windows&reg; NTFS partitions to be mounted by FreeBSD.
Currently NTFS partitions can only be accessed in read-only mode, but
plans are in the works for read/write access.</li>

<li><a name="rio" href="http://www.eecs.umich.edu/Rio/">Rio (RAM
I/O)</a>: The Rio project is investigating how to implement and
use reliable memory.  Reliable memory enables dramatic
improvements in reliability and performance.</li>

<li><a name="softupdate" href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates"> Soft Updates:</a>
A Solution to the Metadata Update Problem in File Systems</li>

<li><a name="tcfs" href="http://www.tcfs.it/">TCFS</a>:

the client machine and thus the encryption/decryption key never
travels on the network.</li>

<li><a name="PathConvert" href="http://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert/">
The PathConvert project</a>: A project 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.</li>
<!--
<li><a name="WAFS" href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~stein/wafs/">
WAFS</a> is a simple filesystem designed to act as a logging
service for kernel subsystems. Reads and writes are keyed
by log-sequence number (LSN). All writes to WAFS are
sequential. Kernel subsystems can use this LSN service to
enforce write-ahead logging and guarantee consistency.
</li>
-->
<li><h3>Unmaintained Pages</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~yar/hfs/">HFS and HFS
Plus in FreeBSD</a>: This project is aimed at integrating
HFS support from Darwin into FreeBSD.</li>
<li><a name="cryptfs" href="http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/">Cryptfs</a>: Encrypts file names and data pages using Blowfish.</li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">Mode locking</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">Make the namei interface reflexive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">NFS client and server locking</a></li>
<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>
<li><a href="http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs/">NTFS Driver for FreeBSD</a>:
This driver allows Windows&reg; NTFS partitions to be mounted by FreeBSD.
Currently NTFS partitions can only be accessed in read-only mode, but
plans are in the works for read/write access.</li>
<li><a name="rio" href="http://www.eecs.umich.edu/Rio/">Rio (RAM
I/O)</a>: The Rio project is investigating how to implement and
use reliable memory.  Reliable memory enables dramatic
improvements in reliability and performance.</li>
<li><a name="Tertiary" href="http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Td/">Tertiary Disk</a>:
A storage system architecture to create large disk storage systems
that avoid the disadvantages of custom built disk arrays. The

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.</li>

<li><a name="vinum" href="http://www.vinumvm.org/">Vinum</a>:
A logical volume manager modeled after the VERITAS volume manager&trade;.
However, it is not a clone of Veritas, and attempts to solve a
number of problems more elegantly than Veritas.  It also offers
features that Veritas does not have.</li>
</ul>
<li><a name="PathConvert" href="http://www.tamacom.com/pathconvert/">
The PathConvert project</a>: A project 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.</li>
<!--
<li><a name="WAFS" href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~stein/wafs/">
WAFS</a> is a simple filesystem designed to act as a logging
service for kernel subsystems. Reads and writes are keyed
by log-sequence number (LSN). All writes to WAFS are
sequential. Kernel subsystems can use this LSN service to
enforce write-ahead logging and guarantee consistency.
</li>
-->
</ul>

<a name="kernelandsecurity"></a>
<h3>Kernel, security</h3>
<ul>
<li><a name="drawbridge" href="http://drawbridge.tamu.edu/">Drawbridge</a>:
A firewall package that was developed at Texas A&amp;M University and
was designed with a large academic environment in mind.  It's greatest
strength is the ability to perform high speed packet filtering for
a larger number of individual hosts within an intranetwork.</li>

<li><a name="kse" href="../kse/index.html">Kernel Scheduler Entities</a>:
A project to enhance the threading support on FreeBSD, using a threading
system similar in design to Scheduler Activations.</li>

<li><a name="lotteryscheduling"
href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dpetrou/research.html">
Lottery Scheduling Kernel</a>: This work is based on

<li><a name="SMP" href="&base;/smp/index.html">Symmetric MultiProcessor Support</a>:
Documentation and other information about taking advantage of multiple
processors under FreeBSD.</li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">A validation suite for testing for kernel memory leaks</a></li>
<li><a name="spy" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~abial/spy/">SPY</a>:
Allows you to monitor and/or selectively block syscalls on your
system. It could be used either as a safety monitoring device, policy
enforcement, or debugging tool.</li>

<li><a name="trustedbsd" href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD</a>:
Provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating
system.  This includes features such as fine-grained privileges (capabilities),

  specific area of the kernel.  The key concept of this test suite is
  chaos. Each test sleeps for a random number of seconds before it
  starts up in a random number of invocations.</li>
<li><h3>Unmaintained Pages</h3>
<ul>
<li><a name="drawbridge" href="http://drawbridge.tamu.edu/">Drawbridge</a>:
A firewall package that was developed at Texas A&amp;M University and
was designed with a large academic environment in mind.  It's greatest
strength is the ability to perform high speed packet filtering for
a larger number of individual hosts within an intranetwork.</li>
<li><a name="kse" href="../kse/index.html">Kernel Scheduler Entities</a>:
A project to enhance the threading support on FreeBSD, using a threading
system similar in design to Scheduler Activations.</li>
<li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~terry/">A validation suite for testing for kernel memory leaks</a></li>
<li><a name="spy" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~abial/spy/">SPY</a>:
Allows you to monitor and/or selectively block syscalls on your
system. It could be used either as a safety monitoring device, policy
enforcement, or debugging tool.</li>

</ul>
</li>
</ul>

<a name="devicedrivers"></a>
<h3>Device drivers</h3>

the portability of drivers between hardware architectures.  This page
also tracks the progress of drivers towards being SMPng-safe.</li>


<li><a name="cam" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/ARTICLE-0001.html">CAM: New SCSI layer for FreeBSD</a>:
Details about what the new CAM SCSI layer is, and how it works.</li>

<li><a name="raid">List of supported RAID Cards</a>: Mike Smith's <a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~msmith/RAID/">list</a> of supported RAID
cards and their respective information.</li>
<li><h3>Unmaintained Pages</h3>
<ul>
<li><a name="deviceframework" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~dfr/devices.html">
A New Device Framework for FreeBSD</a></li>

<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>:
New computer applications in areas such as multimedia, imaging,
and distributed computing demand high levels of performance from

<li><a name="homeauto" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/HomeAuto.html">Home Automation</a>:
Using FreeBSD to run appliance controllers, infra-red controllers,
automated telephone systems, and more.</li>

<li><a name="cam" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/ARTICLE-0001.html">CAM: New SCSI layer for FreeBSD</a>:
Details about what the new CAM SCSI layer is, and how it works.</li>

<li><a name="tokenring" href="http://www.jurai.net/~winter/tr/">The FreeBSD Token-Ring Project</a>:
Information, files, patches, and documentation about adding Token Ring
support to FreeBSD.</li>

<li><a name="xircomcem">Xircom CEM Ethernet Driver</a>: A mailing list exists for further
development of Scott Mitchell's Xircom CEM ethernet driver.  Send
<tt>subscribe freebsd-xircom</tt> to <a
  href="mailto:majordomo@lovett.com">majordomo@lovett.com</a> to
join.</li>


</ul>
</li>
</ul>

<a name="architecture"></a>
<h3>Architecture</h3>
<ul>
<li><a name="alpha" href="../platforms/alpha.html">Porting FreeBSD to Alpha systems</a>:
Contains information on the FreeBSD Alpha port such as the status,
mailing list information, the hardware used, and other Alpha
projects.</li>

<li><a name="ia64" href="../platforms/ia64/index.html">
Porting FreeBSD to IA-64 systems</a>:
This project is responsible for porting FreeBSD to the IA-64

Contains information on the FreeBSD SPARC port including a FAQ,
some early boot code, information on SPARC processors and motherboards,
and other SPARC projects.</li>
<li><h3>Unmaintained Pages</h3>
<ul>
<li><a name="alpha" href="../platforms/alpha.html">Porting FreeBSD to Alpha systems</a>:
Contains information on the FreeBSD Alpha port such as the status,
mailing list information, the hardware used, and other Alpha
projects.</li>
<li><a name="sysvr4" href="http://slash.dotat.org/~newton/freebsd-svr4/">
SysVR4 Emulation</a>: This page describes an SysVR4 emulator for
FreeBSD. It is currently capable of running (or walking, in some
cases) a wide-ish variety of SysV executables taken from Solaris&trade;/x86
2.5.1 and 2.6 systems. I have reason to believe that it will also run
SCO UnixWare and SCO OpenServer binaries.</li>

<li><a name="oskit" href="http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/">The OSKit</a>:
The OSKit is a framework and a set of 31 component libraries oriented
to operating systems, together with extensive documentation. By

network services. The OSKit also works well for constructing OS-related
programs, such as boot loaders or OS-level servers atop a
microkernel.</li>

<li><a name="picobsd" href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~picobsd/">Small and embedded FreeBSD (PicoBSD)</a>:
PicoBSD is a one floppy version of FreeBSD which in its different
variations allows you to have secure dial-up access, small diskless
router, or even a dial-in server.  All of this on only one standard
1.44MB floppy disk.  It runs on a minimum 386SX CPU with 8MB of RAM,
and no hard drive is required!</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

<a name="misc"></a>

	the nvi editor, web browser, the emacs editor, and the elvis editor,
	and the supported languages are C, Yacc, and Java.</li>

      <li><A name="freebsdtour" href="http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/tour/">FreeBSD source code tour</A>:
	A hypertext cross referenced presentation of the FreeBSD kernel
	source code. The versions indexed are -CURRENT and RELENG_4.</li>

      <li><A name="enterman" href="http://www.de.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html">Enteruser</a>: A Replacement for adduser.</li>

      <li><A name="acpi"
	href="&base;/projects/acpi/">ACPI on FreeBSD</A>:

        diffs using a binary diff tool, which dramatically reduces
        the bandwidth used.</li>

      <li><a name="c99" href="&base;/projects/c99/index.html">The
	FreeBSD C99 &amp; &posix; Conformance Project</a>: This project aims to
	implement all requirements of the ISO 9899:1999 (C99) and
	IEEE 1003.1-2001 (POSIX) standards.</li>

      <li><a name="cvsweb" href="cvsweb.html">CVSweb</a>: A WWW
	interface for CVS repositories with which you can browse a file
	hierarchy on your browser to view each file's revision history

	possible.  The Tinderbox source code is maintained in the
	FreeBSD CVS repository in the directory <a
	  href="http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/src/tools/tools/tinderbox/">src/tools/tools/tinderbox</a>.</li>
      <li><h3>Unmaintained Pages</h3>
          <ul>
              <li><A name="freebsdtour" href="http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/tour/">FreeBSD source code tour</A>:
	      A hypertext cross referenced presentation of the FreeBSD kernel
	      source code. The versions indexed are -CURRENT and RELENG_4.</li>
              <li><A name="enterman" href="http://www.de.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html">Enteruser</a>: A Replacement for adduser.</li>
              <li><a name="c99" href="&base;/projects/c99/index.html">The
	      FreeBSD C99 &amp; &posix; Conformance Project</a>: This project 
	      aims to implement all requirements of the ISO 9899:1999 (C99) and
	      IEEE 1003.1-2001 (POSIX) standards.</li>
              <li><a name="gnats4" href="./gnats4/index.html">The FreeBSD
	      GNATS Upgrade</a>: This page details the tasks, timeline and
	      implementation involved in upgrading the FreeBSD bug
	      tracking system from GNATS 3 to GNATS 4.</li>
          </ul>
      </li>
</ul>

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