The NetBSD Project

Mailing List: http://www.netbsd.org/mailinglists/#netbsd-users

The NetBSD Project is an international collaborative effort of a large group of people, to produce a freely available and redistributable UNIX-like operating system, NetBSD. In addition to our own work, NetBSD contains a variety of other free software, including 4.4BSD Lite from the University of California, Berkeley.

Students who want to to claim a task from NetBSD will be granted access to our Google Code-In development wiki. Just ask in the IRC-channel for access and provide your username and mail address, or ask your mentor.

For the part where you need a running NetBSD operating system, you can either install NetBSD on a computer or a virtual machine, which might take up some time. But alternatively, you can also download our Virtualbox images from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/GCi to have an up-and-running NetBSD system.

Completed Tasks

• Add an web interface to apropos
• Compare init systems with each other
• Compare NetBSD with other operating systems of its kind
• Convert articles from the website to wiki articles
• Convert installation notes to markdown
• Convert internals guide to markdown
• Convert the CD-ROM creation guide to markdown, merge it with other articles
• Convert the encrypted iscsi article to markdown
• Convert the NetBSD Guide from DocBook to Markdown
• Convert the NetBSD X documentation to markdown
• Convert the Networking FAQ to markdown
• Convert the PUFFS guide to markdown
• Convert the security processes to markdown
• Convert the tracking current guide to markdown
• Convert the Xen Howto to markdown
• Create a concept for a documentation browser
• Create a NetBSD book layout
• Create a NetBSD poster
• Create a NetBSD poster
• Create a small markdown wiki CGI
• Create an icon set for NetBSD - research
• Create an overview of NetBSD documentation
• Create an overview of the NetBSD kernel source layout
• Create an overview of the NetBSD releases
• Create an overview of the NetBSD server layout
• Create an overview of the NetBSD src layout
• Create and implement a design and templates for a small wiki
• Create and implement a design for a web application
• Create and implement an ikiwiki design template
• Create ATF tests
• Create ATF tests
• Create ATF tests
• Create databases/nss-pgsql package
• Create list of available VoIP client software
• Create lists of software needed for a desktop system
• Create NetBSD slide templates (Latex)
• Create NetBSD slide templates (OpenOffice)
• Create NetBSD wallpapers
• Create NetBSD wallpapers
• Create NetBSD wallpapers
• Create NetBSD wallpapers
• Create security/pam-pgsql package
• Create smaller NetBSD artworks
• Create smaller NetBSD artworks
• Describe how to backup NetBSD
• Describe how to create a NetBSD live flash drive
• Describe how to run NetBSD headless
• Describe the format of usermgmt.conf
• Describe what a NetBSD installation does
• Document different time structures
• Fix bug bin/41049: usermod -g =uid testuser does not create group as indicated by man page
• Fix bug bin/46579: ifconfig prints unnecessary message when deleting interface
• Fix bug bin/47065: /bin/sh returns success for Bad file descriptor
• Fix bug bin/47367: patch(1) mishandles Oops.rej
• Fix bug install/17792: Install process order - network verses disk
• Howto: Dual-boot NetBSD
• Howto: Getting in touch with NetBSD
• Howto: How to get a graphical environment on NetBSD
• Howto: Running a webserver with Apache
• Howto: Update the system from binaries
• Howto: Using LVM to manage your disks
• Intro: Disk and partition management with NetBSD
• Investigate necessary documentation markup
• Make NetBSD a music or video player
• Make OpenDJ run on NetBSD
• Measure startup time
• Multi-user graphical terminal server accessible by RFB/VNC
• Repair vnconfig(8)'s return codes
• Research and write a Markdown style guide
• Research POSIX compliance
• Research POSIX compliance
• Research terminfo(5) keycodes
• Rewrite system configuration in the guide
• Setup single sign-on (SSO) service using LDAP
• Survey documentation structure of other projects
• Survey documentation structure of other projects
• Survey documentation structure of other projects
• Try out RFB/VNC software on NetBSD
• Try out VoIP software
• Try out VoIP software
• Try out XMPP software
• Using the framebuffer in NetBSD
• Version the documentation
• Write a mail wrapper
• Write a markdown - curses converter
• Write a markdown - Docbook converter
• Write a Markdown - Latex converter
• Write apropos branch to search through Markdown documentation