FreeBSD Wiki

Welcome to the FreeBSD Wiki

This is a wiki mainly for FreeBSD developers - more general information (including information about the ACL's and new user information) can be found at the AboutWiki page.

WARNING: The wiki is being upgraded over the comming days - expect disruptions!

simon@ - 2008-06-16 20:30 UTC

Committer documentation

• Subversion primer

Platforms

• ARM

• i386

• ia64

• MIPS

• PowerPC

• sparc64

• sun4v

• Xen

Projects

Describe your work-in-progress and/or blue-sky ideas here. You might find out that your blue-sky idea is someone's WIP, or vice versa. Perhaps this can lead to less of the 'if you check that in, it will mess up my local changes' problem.

• AppleMacbook

• Buffer cache renovation project

• CoverityPrevent (restricted access only to people with access to Coverity Prevent itself)

• VersionControl

• HgMigration

• LibElf

• ElfToolChain

• multimedia

• HDTV

• SMPTODO (List of remaining Giant-locked kernel code)

• SummerOfCode (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

• TetIntegration

• TrustedBSD / TrustedBSD Project

• K

• Improving the Linux compatibility layer

• Improving the sound system

• CScout

• Performance (Netperf, PmcTools, MySQL, General purpose tweaks, ...)

• BenchmarkMatrix

• NetworkVirtualization

• Ethng

• VendorInformation

• Networking

• PCI Hotplug

• ZFS

• TMPFS

• Transactions

• PerformanceTracker

• Hamradio_on_FreeBSD

• HOWTO implement WakeOnLan in NIC drivers

• AFS_using_OpenAFS_+_Arla

• TTYRedesign

• IPv6_Userland_and_Kernel_issues

• Jails

Base System

• ContribSoftware

• Debugging

• DeviceDrivers

• DriDrivers

• Imports

• KGI

• ThreadLocalStorage

Documentation Project

• DocIdeaList

• IdeasWebApp

• MissingManpages

• MarketingDocs

• Using FreeBSD for linux-cross-development

• StimulatingJava

• AppserverJailsHOWTO

• SecureSSMTP

• DocTranslationProjects

• FAQ Renewal Proposal

Ports

• PortsTasks (recompilation)

Ports collection

• Meta-ports

  • Gnome

  • KDE4

• Wine

• MySQL

• Samba

• MythTV on FreeBSD

Porters resources

• AvoidingLinuxisms

• DistfileSurvey

• PortersHandbook

• portsmon

• PortsNewDistfileChecker

• portupgrade

• XPI, NPAPI, and Linkfarming

• portmgr

Ports system

• Metalink

• RewriteOfOptions

• NewPortsCategories

• PortsToDo

• libpkg (for lack of a better name)

Ports notes/tasks/requests

• ModularXorg

• PortsFailingOnPointyhat

• PortsNotUpgraded

• PortsLongtermTargets meaningless statistics

• WantedPorts

• PortsAndGPLv3

• MaintainerNotes

Development resources

• Using Mercurial for local development

• Using git for local development

Bug Handling

• Ideas on how to improve our bug handling

• AssigningPRs

• Bugathons

• Bugbusting resources

• volunteer signup sheet

• Alternative Bugtracking systems that we might consider

Overall System

• Conferences

• QA-Checklist

• Todo-List

• MentorMatch

Other Resources

• IrcChannels / IrcNicks

• The network performance test cluster: NetperfClusterPointers, NetperfClusterReservations

• DevSummit