Posts Tagged ‘FreeBSD Foundation’
announce::The FreeBSD Foundation Funds Project to Grow Mounted Filesystems
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierala has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to grow filesystems while they are mounted. "Users of FreeBSD in a virtualized environment will be pleased with the increased ease of deployment afforded by the ability to grow mounted filesystems," said Ed Maste, [...]
announce::Porting of libc++ to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that David Chisnall has been awarded a grant to implement xlocale APIs to enable porting libc++. The C standard library (libc) is one of the most important parts of a UNIX system as most programs interact with the kernel through interfaces written in C. Porting code between platforms with similar [...]
annoounce::DIFFUSE project comes to FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA) has been awarded a grant to implement DIFFUSE for FreeBSD. DIFFUSE (Distributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence) is an extension to the FreeBSD IPFW firewall subsystem developed by [...]
Announcement The FreeBSD Foundation Accepting Travel Grant Applications for EuroBSDCon
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to EuroBSDCon 2011. The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/TravelRequestForm.pdf [...]
Grant Annoucement: Improve IPv6 (KAME) Support for FreeBSD & PC-BSD
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded Bjoern Zeeb a grant to improve the maturity of IPv6 support in FreeBSD and PC-BSD. This project is jointly sponsored with iXsystems. FreeBSD's KAME-based reference implementation of IPv6 first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0, and can be found in a broad range of FreeBSD-derived [...]
FreeBSD Foundation Turns to NYI for East Coast US Mirror
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FreeBSD Foundation Turns to NYI for East Coast US Mirror Deployment Adds Enterprise-Grade Redundancy for Improved Reliability, Reduced Latency, High-Speed Backups and Other Efficiencies BOULDER, CO, August 10, 2010—The FreeBSD Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD [...]
Bsnmp enhancements announced
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Shteryana Shopova has been awarded a grant to make improvements to BSNMP. This project includes several enhancements to the existing FreeBSD SNMP framework, including SNMPv3-compliant user authentication, packet encryption and view-based access control. In addition, the project also includes [...]
Announcement: End of Travel Grant Applications for BSDCan
Dear FreeBSD Community, Today is the last day to submit your travel grant application for BSDCan 2010! The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application at by April 9, 2010 to apply for this grant. How it [...]
The FreeBSD Foundation is accepting BSDCan 2010 travel grant applications
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to BSDCan 2010. The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application by April 9, 2010 to apply for this grant. How it works: This program is open [...]
HAST committed to FreeBSD 8
Late Thursday evening the HAST (High Availability STorage) project was committed to the FreeBSD HEAD. This marks a successful completion of the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored project as it has been merged into the main branch of FreeBSD 8. The commit notice from Paweł Jakub Dawidek briefly describes the project. A detailed discussion of the [...]
