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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.
  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. 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.