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diff --git a/en/news/status/report-2001-11.xml b/en/news/status/report-2001-11.xml deleted file mode 100644 index c4f07c642e..0000000000 --- a/en/news/status/report-2001-11.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1025 +0,0 @@ -<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-november-2001.xml,v 1.2 2003/04/13 16:31:52 hrs Exp $ --> - -<report> - <date> - <month>November</month> - - <year>2001</year> - </date> - - <section> - <title>Introduction</title> - - <p>This months report covers activity during the second half of - October, and the month of November. During these months, - substantial work was performed to improve system performance and - stability, in particular addressing concerns regarding regressions - in network performance for the TCP protocol, and via the - introduction of polled network device driver support. Work - continues on long-term architectural projects for 5.0, including - KSEs, NEWCARD, and TrustedBSD, as well as the cleaning up of - long-standing problems in FreeBSD, such as PAM integration. - Administrative changes are also documented, including work to - redefine and formalize the release engineering process, and the - approval of a new portmgr group which will administer the ports - collection.</p> - - <p>FreeBSD users and developers are strongly encouraged to attend - the USENIX BSD Conference in February of next year; it is expected - that this will be a useful forum both for learning about FreeBSD - and on-going work, as well as providing an opportunity for - developers to work more closely and act as a vehicle for discussion - and round-the-clock hacking. More information is available at the - USENIX web site.</p> - - <p>Robert Watson</p> - </section> - - <project> - <title>TCP Performance Improvements</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Matthew</given> - - <common>Dillon</common> - </name> - - <email>dillon@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - </links> - - <body> - <p>A number of serious TCP bugs effecting throughput snuck into - the system over the last few releases and have finally been - fixed. TCP performance should be greatly improved for a number of - cases, including TCP/NFS.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Intel Gigabit Driver: wx desupported</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Matthew</given> - - <common>Jacob</common> - </name> - - <email>mjacob@feral.com</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The wx driver is desupported and removed from -current. No - further support for wx in -stable is planned. Newer and better - drivers are now in the tree.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Fibre Channel Support</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Matthew</given> - - <common>Jacob</common> - </name> - - <email>mjacob@feral.com</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.feral.com/isp.html">Qlogic ISP Host Adapter - Software</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Ongoing bug fixes. Work is underway, to be integrated shortly, - that makes the cross platform endian support easier and will - prepare the FreeBSD version for eventual sparc64 and PowerPC - usage.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>TrustedBSD Audit</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>John</given> - - <common>Doe</common> - </name> - - <email>trustedbsd-audit@trustedbsd.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <!-- We don't really have any --> - <url href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD Project - Homepage</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Currently, we are exploring a variety of strategies to learn - about the implementation and performance issues in order to have - a solid design. One of our main goals will be to use a - standardized interface to the system, whether it be POSIX.1e, or - another of the other standards, because as they say "Standards - are great because you have so many to choose from." Hopefully - within the next month or so, we will populate the perforce - TrustedBSD tree with an agreed upon framework that is ready for - serious final work.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Pluggable Authentication Modules</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Mark</given> - - <common>Murray</common> - </name> - - <email>markm@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Dag-Erling</given> - - <common>Smørgrav</common> - </name> - - <email>des@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~des/diary/2001.html" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>On the code side, a number of libpam bugs have been fixed; a - new PAM module, - <tt>pam_self(8)</tt> - - , has been written; and preparations have been made for - the transition from - <tt>/etc/pam.conf</tt> - - to - <tt>/etc/pam.d</tt> - - .</p> - - <p>On the documentation side, new manual pages have been written - for - <tt>pam_ssh(8)</tt> - - , - <tt>pam_get_item(3)</tt> - - and - <tt>pam_set_item(3)</tt> - - , and work has started on a longer article about PAM which is - expected to be finished by the end of the year.</p> - - <p>A lot of work still remains to be done to integrate PAM more - tightly with the FreeBSD base system—particularly the - <tt>passwd(1)</tt> - - , - <tt>chpass(1)</tt> - - etc. utilities—and ports collection.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Status Report: mb_alloc (-CURRENT mbuf allocator)</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Bosko</given> - - <common>Milekic</common> - </name> - - <email>bmilekic@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~bmilekic/code/mb_alloc/">Code - Dump and Preliminary Results</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Presently re-style(9)ing mbuf code with the help of Bruce - (bde). The next larger step is approaching: to better - performance, as initially planned, not have reference counters - for clusters allocated separately via malloc(9). Rather, use some - of the [unused] space at the end of each cluster as a counter; - since this space is totally unused and since ref. counter - <--> mbuf cluster is a one-to-one relationship, this is - most convenient.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD 4.5 Release Engineering</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Murray</given> - - <common>Stokely</common> - </name> - - <email>murray@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/internal/releng.html">FreeBSD - Release Engineering.</url> - - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/internal/releng45.html">FreeBSD - 4.5 Release Process / Schedule.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.5 have begun. An - overview of the entire process has been added to the FreeBSD web - site, along with a specific schedule for 4.5. The code freeze is - scheduled to start on December 20. The team responsible for - responding to MFC requests sent to re@FreeBSD.org for this - release is: Murray Stokely, Robert Watson, and John Baldwin. Some - of our many goals for this release include closing more - installation-related problem reports, being more conservative - with our approval of changes during the code freeze, and - continuing to document the entire process. For suggestions or - questions about FreeBSD 4.5 release activities, please subscribe - to the public freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org mailing list.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Web site conversion to XML</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Nik</given> - - <common>Clayton</common> - </name> - - <email>nik@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Work is (slowly) progressing on converting the web site to use - pages marked up in a simple XML schema, and then generating HTML - and other output formats using XSLT style sheets. The work so far - can be tested by doing "cvs checkout -r XML_XSL_XP www" and then - "cd www/en; make index.html". Take a look at index.page in the - same directory to see the source XML. The CVS logs for index.page - contain detailed instructions explaining how index.page was - generated from its earlier form.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD in Bulgarian</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Peter</given> - - <common>Pentchev</common> - </name> - - <email>roam@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD-bg.ringlet.net/" /> - - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/bg/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The FreeBSD in Bulgarian project aims to bring a more - comfortable working environment to Bulgarian users of the FreeBSD - OS. This includes, but is not limited to, font, keymap and locale - support, translation of the FreeBSD documentation into Bulgarian, - local user groups and various forms of on-line help channels and - discussion forums to help Bulgarians adopt and use FreeBSD.</p> - - <p>Bulgarian locale support has been committed to FreeBSD - 5.0-CURRENT (and later merged into 4.x-STABLE on December 10th). - A local CVS repository for the translation of the FreeBSD - documentation into Bulgarian has been created.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>New mount(2) API</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Poul-Henning</given> - - <common>Kamp</common> - </name> - - <email>phk@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Maxime</given> - - <common>Henrion</common> - </name> - - <email>mux@qualys.com</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.sneakerz.org/~mux/mount.diff" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>There is now some code ready for the new mount API, which has - to be reviewed and tested. If it is adopted, we will probably - start converting all the filesystems, as well as other code in - the kernel, to make them use it. If you want to play with it, the - patch is available at the above URL.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Network interface cloning and modularity</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Brooks</given> - - <common>Davis</common> - </name> - - <email>brooks@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Support for VLAN cloning has been merged from current and will - ship with 4.5-RELEASE. Additionally, new rc.conf support for - cloning interfaces at boot has been MFD'd. Work is ongoing to MFC - stf and faith cloning as well as adding cloning for ppp devices - and enhancing VLAN modularity.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Device Polling</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Luigi</given> - - <common>Rizzo</common> - </name> - - <email>luigi@iet.unipi.it</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/">Web page - with code and detailed description.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>This work uses a mixed interrupt-polling architecture to - handle network device drivers, giving the system substantial - improvements in terms of stability and robustness to overloads, - as well as the ability to control the sharing of CPU between - network-related kernel processing and other user/kernel tasks. - Last not least, you might even see a moderate (up to 20-30%, - machine dependent) performance improvement.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>RELNOTESng</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Bruce</given> - - <common>Mah</common> - </name> - - <email>bmah@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bmah/relnotes/" /> - - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/relnotes.html" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>I've been working on making the Hardware Notes less - i386-centric. This will be especially important for -CURRENT as - the ia64 and sparc ports reach maturity; most of this work should - be completed in time to be MFC-ed for FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE. I - encourage any interested parties to review the release - documentation and send me comments or patches.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Port</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Matthew</given> - - <middle>N.</middle> - - <common>Dodd</common> - </name> - - <email>mdodd@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia/NEWS">News and - Status.</url> - - <url href="ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia/">FTP - directory.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The port of the driver is around 90% feature complete. AGP - support and "Registry" support via sysctl need to be - finished/implemented. The NVIDIA guys are working on a build of - the X11 libs and extensions for FreeBSD; once this is done - hardware accelerated direct rendering should work. The previous - version this driver is no longer available. I'm planning on - making a snapshot of my code once I chase out a few more - bugs.</p> - - <p>Please note that development is taking place under -CURRENT - right now; a port to -STABLE will be available at some later - time.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>jp.FreeBSD.org daily SNAPSHOTs project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Makoto</given> - - <common>Matsushita</common> - </name> - - <email>matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/">Project - Webpage</url> - - <url - href="ftp://snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/"> - Anonymous FTP</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>jp.FreeBSD.org daily SNAPSHOTs project is yet another - snapshots server that provides latest 4-stable and 5-current - distribution. You also find installable ISO image, live - filesystem, HTMLed source code with search engine, and more; - please check project webpage for more details.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>UDF Filesystem</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Scott</given> - - <common>Long</common> - </name> - - <email>scottl@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~scottl/udf">UDF - Filesystem.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Modest gains have been made on the UDF filesystem since the - last report. Reading of files from DVD-ROM now works (and is - fast, according to some reports), and there is preliminary - support for reading from CD-RW media. The CD-RW support has only - been tested against CD's created with Adaptec/ Roxio DirectCD, - and much, much more testing is needed. Once this support is - solid, I plan to check it into the tree and start work on making - the filesystem writable.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>NEWCARD/OLDCARD Status report</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Warner</given> - - <common>Losh</common> - </name> - - <email>imp@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Not much to report. A number of minor bugs in OLDCARD have - been corrected. A larger number of machines now work. Additional - work on ToPIC support has been committed, but continued lack of a - suitable ToPIC machine has left the author unable to do much - work. A few stubborn machines still need to be supported (the - author has an example of one such machine, so there is hope for - it being fixed. Some pci related issues remain for both OLDCARD - and NEWCARD.</p> - - <p>NEWCARD work is ramping up, while OLDCARD work is ramping - down. A number of things remain to be done for NEWCARD, including - suspend/ resume support, generic device arrival/removal daemon - and hopefully automatic loading of drivers. A number of current - pccard drivers still need to be converted to NEWBUS. Several - Chipset issues remain, as does the merging of isa pccard bridge - code with the pccbb code.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>GEOM - generalized block storage manipulation</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Poul-Henning</given> - - <common>Kamp</common> - </name> - - <email>phk@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~phk/Geom/">Old concept paper - here.</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>This project is now finally underway, thanks to DARPA and NAI - getting a sponsorship lined up. The infrastructure code and data - structures are currently taking form inside a userland simulation - harness.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>jpman project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Kazuo</given> - - <common>Horikawa</common> - </name> - - <email>horikawa@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/man-jp/">User and developer - information (in Japanese).</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Targeting 4.5-RELEASE, we continued to revising - doc/ja_JP.eucJP/man/man[1256789] to catch up with RELENG_4. - Section 3 updating has 45% finished.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>LOMAC Status Report</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Brian</given> - - <common>Feldman</common> - </name> - - <email>green@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://opensource.nailabs.com/lomac/">NAI Labs' LOMAC - page</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>A FreeBSD -CURRENT snapshot with LOMAC is currently being - prepared, with aid of Perforce on the "green_lomac" branch. Very - soon there should be a working demonstration installation CD of - FreeBSD with LOMAC, including the ability to enable LOMAC in - rc.conf with sysinstall, being a legitimate "out-of-the-box" - FreeBSD experience. Actual release build is pending debugging - issues with program start-up (especially xdm).</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>ATA Project Status Report</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Søren Schmidt</given> - </name> - - <email>sos@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Work is underways to support failing mirror disks better and - handle hotswapping in a new replacement disk and have it rebuild - automagically.</p> - - <p>Support for the Promise TX4 is now working in my lab, seems - they did the PCI-PCI bridging in the not so obvious way.</p> - - <p>Plans are in the works to backport the -current ATA driver to - -stable with hotswap and the works. Now that -current is delayed - I'm working on ways to give me time to get this done, since I've - had lots of requests lately and we really can't let down our - customers :).</p> - - <p>SMART support is being worked on, but no timelines yet.</p> - - <p>Although not strictly ATA, Promise has equipped me with a - couple SuperTrak sx6000 RAID controllers, they take 6 ATA disks - and does RAID0-5 in hardware. I have done a driver (its an I2O - device) for both -current and -stable and it works beautifully with - hotswap the works. It will enter the tree when it is more mature, - and I have an agreement with Promise on how we handle userland - control util etc. BTW it seems it can also be used as a normal 6 - channel PCI ATA controller, a bit on the expensive side - maybe...</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Revised {mode,log}page support for camcontrol</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Kelly</given> - - <common>Yancey</common> - </name> - - <email>kbyanc@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <body> - <p>Extending camcontrol's page definition file format to include - both modepage and logpage definitions; adding support to - camcontrol to query and reset log page parameters. Consideration - is being made to possibly include support for diagnostic and - vital product data pages, but that is outside the current project - scope. New page definition file format includes capability to - conditionally include page definitions based on SCSI INQUIRY - results allowing vendor-specific pages to be described also. - Approximately 80% complete.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Mike</given> - - <common>Barcroft</common> - </name> - - <email>mike@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <common>FreeBSD-Standards Mailing List</common> - </name> - - <email>standards@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mike/c99/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>Work on the FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project is - progressing nicely. Since the last status report, two new headers - have been added [<stdint.h> and <inttypes.h>], - several new functions implemented [atoll(3), imaxabs(3), - imaxdiv(3), llabs(3), lldiv(3), strerror_r(3), strtoimax(3), and - strtoumax(3)], and changes to assert(3) and printf(3) were made - to support C99. More printf(3) changes are in the works to - support the remaining C99 and POSIX requirements. Additionally, - research was done into our POSIX Utility conformance and a list - of tasks was derived from that research.</p> - - <p>Several other interesting events occurred during November and - the beginning of December. The project mailing list was moved to - the FreeBSD.org domain, and is now available at - standards@FreeBSD.org. On December 6, 2001, the IEEE Standards - Board approved the Austin Group Specification as IEEE Std - 1003.1-2001, thus making the work we're doing ever more - important.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Improving FreeBSD startup scripts</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Doug Barton</given> - - <common>Committer</common> - </name> - - <email>DougB@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <name> - <given>Gordon Tetlow</given> - - <common>Contributor</common> - </name> - - <email>gordont@gnf.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/">Improving - FreeBSD startup scripts</url> - - <url href="http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~lukem/bibliography.html"> - Luke Mewburn's papers</url> - - <url href="http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/rc/">NetBSD - Initialization and Services Control</url> - </links> - - <body><-- from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBSD-rc/ --> - <p>This group is for discussion about the startup scripts in - FreeBSD, primarily the scripts in /etc/rc*. Primary focus will be - on improvements and importation of NetBSD's excellent work on this - topic.</p> - - <-- from Gordon Tetlow's ranting --> - <p>Due to personal commitments by the folks working on this project - we have been unable to spend much time porting the rc.d - infrastructure into the FreeBSD boot framework.</p> - - <p>Currently, the system will boot (with a little fudging) just - before network utilization. There are patches floating around for - this (see the -arch list from September).</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>KSEs</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Julian</given> - - <common>Elischer</common> - </name> - - <email>julian@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~julian/">My web-page with - links</url> - - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jasone/kse/">Jason Evans' KSE - page.</url> - - </links> - - <body> - <p>I have been working behind the scenes on design rather than - programming for this last month. I have been working however in - the p4 tree to make the system run with the thread structure NOT - a part of the proc structure (a prerequisite for threading)</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>Ports Manager Team (portmgr)</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Will</given> - - <common>Andrews</common> - </name> - - <email>will@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://bento.FreeBSD.org/">Ports build cluster</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>After a discussion with the Core Team about our status - regarding the ports collection, we heard from them that they'd - decided to recognize us as the final authority for approving - ports committers. We've spent the last few weeks working on our - ports build cluster (see the link) and trying to find ways to - improve it for the ports development community. We've also - handled a few minor issues in the ports collection.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>TrustedBSD Project</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>Robert</given> - - <common>Watson</common> - </name> - - <email>rwatson@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.TrustedBSD.org/">TrustedBSD Home Page</url> - </links> - - <body> - <p>The TrustedBSD Project continued focusing development efforts - on fine-grained Capabilities and Mandatory Access Control this - month. Kernel support for capabilities is essentially complete, - and efforts are underway to adapt userland applications to use - Capabilities. The login process has been updated to allow users - to run with additional privilege based on /etc/capabilities. The - MAC implementation work has also been active, with improved - support for the labeling of IPC objects, including better - integration into the network stack. Both development trees have - been updated to work with recent KSE-related developments, as - well as exist more happily in a fine-grained SMP kernel. Initial - audit-related work appears in a separate entry.</p> - - <p>Development of TrustedBSD source code was moved to the FreeBSD - Perforce repository, permitting better source code management. As - such, the TrustedBSD development trees will now be available via - cvsup.</p> - </body> - </project> - - <project> - <title>SMPng Status Report</title> - - <contact> - <person> - <name> - <given>John</given> - - <common>Baldwin</common> - </name> - - <email>jhb@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - - <person> - <email>smp@FreeBSD.org</email> - </person> - </contact> - - <links> - <url href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/smp/" /> - </links> - - <body> - <p>October ended up being a bit busier than November for - SMPng. During October, Peter Wemm finally finished the - ambitious task of unwinding all the macros in NFS and - splitting it up into two halves: client and server. Andrew - Reiter also submitted some code to add locks to taskqueues, - and the folks working on the TTY subsystem designed the - locking strategy they will be using. Per-thread ucred - references were also added for user traps and syscalls. Once - the necessary locking on the process ucred references is - committed, this will allow kernel code to access the - credentials of the current thread without needing locks while - also ensuring that a thread has constant credentials for the - lifetime of a syscall. November only saw a few small bug fixes - unfortunately, but December is already shaping up to be a very - active month, so next month's report should be a bit more - interesting.</p> - - <p>In non-coding news, the website for the SMPng project has - moved from its old location to the new location above. Also, - I have completed a paper I am presenting for BSDCon regarding - the SMPng project. The paper will be available in the - conference proceedings and will be available online after the - conference as well.</p> - </body> - </project> -</report> |