http://googlesummerofcode.blogspot.com/2
007/09/updates-from-freebsd.html
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Updates from FreeBSD
FreeBSD mentored 25 students this year, achieving a
fantastic final
success rate of 92%. Murray Stokely, one of their
organization
administrators, has written a more detailed summary of
FreeBSD's 2007
Summer of Code experience, but here are a few highlights:
During the first Summer of Code in 2005, Ivan Voras worked
for the
first time with FreeBSD on implementing a journaling storage
system.
You can read more about that project in Dr. Dobb's Journal.
In 2006,
Ivan returned to work on the storage visualization layer.
This year he
turned his attention to FreeBSD's graphical installation
tools and
finstall project involved making a number of improvements to
livecd
support and FreeBSD base system utilities. Ivan also
produced a full
graphical installer, including complete ISO images for
users.
In addition to successfully finishing his FreeBSD on MacBook
project,
Rui Paulo has just become the newest developer with full
commit access
to the FreeBSD source code repository. This summer Rui
developed a
number of new device drivers and submitted several important
bug fixes
to make it easier to run FreeBSD on MacBook hardware.
Zhouyi Zhou wrote a logging and test case framework for the
FreeBSD
Mandatory Access Control Framework, designed to test the
correct
passing of the security label from userland to kernel and
the
non-bypassibility of Mandatory Access Control Hooks. His
work
identified two security vulnerabilities which were promptly
fixed.
We've only highlighted a few of the FreeBSD projects here,
and we
would love to hear more from the community about their
favorite
FreeBSD projects from Summer of Code 2007 or years past.
Post a
comment and share your thoughts with us.
Congratulations to all of FreeBSD's mentors and students, as
well as
the FreeBSD community, for their third year of successful
participation in Summer of Code!
Note: Murray Stokely is a Google employee as well as a
committer for
the FreeBSD project.
Posted by Leslie Hawthorn at 2:22 PM
Labels: freebsd
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