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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.

Committer documentation

• Tinderbox -- a description of the tinderbox scripts

• Subversion primer

• How to get Wiki write access granted (and more general information)

Platforms

• ARM

• i386

• MIPS

• PowerPC

• sparc64

• Xen

Google Summer of Code

• 2009

• 2008

• 2007

• 2006

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

• AsusEee

• Buffer cache renovation project

• BuildingFreeBSDWithClang

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

• VersionControl

• HgMigration

• LibElf

• VirtualBox

• ElfToolChain

• Multimedia

• HDTV

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

• TCPProjects8

• TetIntegration

• TrustedBSD / TrustedBSD Project

• K

• Improving the Linux compatibility layer

• The FreeBSD sound system

• CScout

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

• BenchmarkMatrix

• NetworkVirtualization

• VendorInformation

• Networking

• PCI Hotplug

• ZFS

• TMPFS

• GlusterFS

• Transactions

• PerformanceTracker

• HOWTO implement WakeOnLan in NIC drivers

• AFS_using_OpenAFS_+_Arla

• TTYRedesign

• Jails

• Graphics support for the boot loader

• Unicode support in syscons

• USB

• 8.0TODO

• 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networking

Base System

• ATA subsystem

• ContribSoftware

• Debugging

• DeviceDrivers

• DriDrivers

• GEOM

• KGI

• ThreadLocalStorage

Documentation Project

• DocIdeaList

• IdeasWebApp

• MissingManpages

• MarketingDocs

• Using FreeBSD for linux-cross-development

• StimulatingJava

• AppserverJailsHOWTO

• SecureSSMTP

• DocTranslationProjects

• FAQ Renewal Proposal

• Various information on DTrace on FreeBSD

• How to produce high quality videos of BSD Conferences and publish on YouTube and FTP

Ports

• PortsTasks (recompilation)

Ports collection

• Meta-ports

  • Gnome

  • KDE

• Wine

• MySQL

• Samba

• MythTV on FreeBSD

• Apache

Porters resources

• AvoidingLinuxisms

• DistfileSurvey

• PortersHandbook

• portsmon

• portupgrade

• XPI, NPAPI, and Linkfarming

• portmgr

Ports system

• Metalink

• NewPortsCategories

• PortsToDo

• libpkg (for lack of a better name)

Ports notes/tasks/requests

• ModularXorg

• PortsLongtermTargets meaningless statistics

• WantedPorts

• MaintainerNotes

Development resources

• Using Mercurial for local development

Bug Handling

• General discussion of bugbusting on FreeBSD

• AssigningPRs

• Bugathons

• Bugbusting resources

• volunteer signup sheet

Overall System

• Conferences

• QA-Checklist

• MentorMatch

Other Resources

• IRC Channels / IRC Nicknames

• The network performance test cluster: NetperfClusterPointers, NetperfClusterReservations

• DevSummit