“After evaluating over 100 distinct applications, the NetBSD Foundation is now pleased to announce the list of projects that have been chosen.” The projects will be hosted at SourceForge and include proposals such as BSD licensed privacy guard, Zeroconfd, NDIS network driver, HFS+ and more.
I was hoping MMUless project passed,
Are there any more details on how each project might seem interesting to observers?
Their per-project pages still lack details, but it is nice to know what their projects are.
tmpffs’ idea is a more efficient way to do memfs, or at least it is in theory; fewer copies, disable buffer cache and try to use as little memory as possible.
wcurses’ wide-character support is useful for multiple languages that use characters that are outside the normal ascii character set. Pretty much anything that doesn’t use Roman letters; Russian, Japanese, Korean, etc… So, if you’re not a native English speaker this could be handy.
bpg’s just like gnupgp, only BSD licnesed.
zeroconf would be a daemon that automatically assigns IPv4 link-level addresses and probably a Multicast DNS responder and a BSD-licensed Multicast DNS library.
regress is an automated testing system.
userfs would probably be for allowing unprivileged users to manipulate parts of the filesystem.
ndis is an attempt at a standard nic api, developed by 3com and Microsoft, though Windows have their own “extended” versions.
hfs+ would be that filesystem Apple likes so much – the Hierarchical File System.
but, there were so many awesome ideas that it’s a bummer only a few were chosen. Out of this list, the first one that grabs me as really cool is the BSD licensed version of PGP.
I would have liked to see a BSD licensed WiFi browser, BSD licensed rsync replacement, Realtime support (would be grea for embedded devices), journaling for UFS, support for MMU-less systems (so that we can have more ports), device driver for NAND flash chips.
I guess for now I can be happy with a BSD licensed version of GPG.
Is there a short guide to setting up NETBSD, I am able to setup the console tools but no X KDE/GNOME.