freebsd project

The FreeBSD project is finally, after much work, pleased to announce the availability of an official FreeBSD web based discussion forum.

It is our hope that this forum will serve as a public support channel for FreeBSD users around the world and as a complement to our fine mailing lists.

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce the conclusion of our fourth consecutive democratic election of project leadership.

The FreeBSD Core Team constitutes the project's "Board of Directors" and is responsible for vetting new src committers, arbitrating technical disagreements, weighing in on policy and administrative issues, and appointing sub-committees for handling specific duties (security officer, release engineers, port managers, webmasters, etc..).

The core team has been democratically elected every 2 years by active FreeBSD committers since 2000.

Mozilla this week released the highly anticipated Firefox 3 browser. The FreeBSD Project congratulates the Mozilla project on a multi-year effort that culminated in a product that is both faster and more secure ...

Pawel Dawidek ported ZFS to FreeBSD from OpenSolaris, first committing the ported filesystem in April of 2007.

He continues to actively port new ZFS features from OpenSolaris, and focuses on improving overall ZFS stability.

During the introduction to his talk at BSDCan, he explained that his goal was to offer an accessible view of ZFS internals.

The FreeBSD Project will soon be accepting applications for the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. This program will provide funding for students to spend the summer contributing to open source software projects.

A list of FreeBSD specific projects and potential mentors is available here.