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The FreeBSD Foundation Is Soliciting Project Proposals

Posted by Unknown on from the bsd-confirms-netcraft-is-dead dept.

Professor_Quail writes "Following a successful 2012 fundraising campaign, the FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting the submission of project proposals for funded development grants. Proposals may be related to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system, and will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit, and cost-effectiveness. The proposal process is open to all developers (including non-FreeBSD committers), and the deadline for submitting a proposal is April 26th, 2013." The foundation is currently funding a few other projects, including UEFI booting support.

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  1. IPv6 DHCP gui by Anomalyst · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Include support of LDAP and static leases. A wizard for requesting & configuring IPv6Tov4 tunnels thru current IPv6 providers would be a major boon

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    There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
    1. Re:IPv6 DHCP gui by unixisc · · Score: 2

      Fully second this!!! Have a DHCP6 manager that assigns static and dynamic address pools, and allow for the interface ID addresses to be grouped in any way that's convenient. Such a utility would be particularly great in router/firewall gear such as m0n0wall and pFsense, if not in FBSD itself. It should have direct hooks to the relevant /etc/ files so that one doesn't have to whip up an editor and manually edit such stuff.

      Other suggestions - all IPv6 related. One - have an utility that allows virtual web hosts to all have different addresses, thereby creating real hosts. Another - this could be either a pFsense or an OBSD project - an application that provides an IPv6 equivalent of the firewall portion of IPv4 NAT, so that that aspect of IPv6 security is addressed. One more - have the option of giving all VMs an IPv6 address of their own (either/both routable & non-routable), and tie that to the DHCP6 manager described above.

      All this could be a part of an FBSD answer to OpenWRT, but w/ one major difference that justifies the project - it would be completely IPv6 centric, and the only IPv4 support would be for the sake of making IPv6 services available to it.

  2. Better /etc/hosts support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should get rid of the insecure and buggy libresolv and replace it with /etc/hosts for all DNS lookups.

  3. ZFS boot support by rhavenn · · Score: 3

    stable and installer supported ZFS boot support for the / volume.

    1. Re:ZFS boot support by Bengie · · Score: 4, Informative

      I think PC-BSD has support to setting up a ZFS boot on fresh install, while allowing a naked FreeBSD install.

    2. Re:ZFS boot support by RicktheBrick · · Score: 2

      I want a program that would maintain a backup of the hard drive on a network drive every time the computer is shut off. I want an installation disk that would look for a backup on the network drive and install that backup instead of a new installation.

  4. Java by FeatherBoa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would like to see improved Java support. What we have now is all either hacks based on running the Linux JVM as a compatible ABI, or you have to build a JVM from source due to licensing. I would like to see a commercial JVM run natively. Ideally IBM's.

    That's not something FreeBSD can do though, I don't expect.

  5. Are there bootable backups ? by Marrow · · Score: 2

    Something to completely restore a machine?

  6. Double Guitars by bradgoodman · · Score: 2

    You know those guitars that are like, double guitars?