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[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>] FREEBSD ... AND INDIA: When FreeBSD 6.0 got recently released, one thought of checking out its links with India. Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded to a query to to say, "While I don't know about Indian involvement with the FreeBSD project, I know there is involvement with BSD Certification (http://www.bsdcertification.org). One of the members of the bsdcert mailing list will be at FOSS India -- http://foss.in -- handing out 1500 copies of our brochure. We also have two translators who are starting translations into Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and Telegu. As the current chair of the BSD Certification Group, I am interested in spreading the word about BSD certification to India." See [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Their website http://bsd-india.org/ was established in 1999 and has 111 members. Joseph Koshy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says, "There are indian programmers who have been working on FreeBSD since 1998." Craig Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who's an old-time friend in another context (Goa's first Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.indian.goa) had this to say, I am a FreeBSD committer, and PIO (Person of Indian Origin), with roots in Goa. FreeBSD is an open-source project which produces a very high-quality, rock solid, operating system. FreeBSD traces its roots to some of the earliest Unix work done at AT&T and the University of California, Berkeley, and is built on solid and proven technology. You can see the history of BSD here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree Many people from around the world and from different backgrounds contribute to the FreeBSD project, including Indians. * Joseph Koshy ( http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/ ), in Bangalore, contributed a Performance Measurement Framework -- http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/projects/perf-measurement/index.html -- to FreeBSD. Joseph has also contributed other things to FreeBSD. * Mohan Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> works at Yahoo, and has contributed many fixes to the FreeBSD networking code. FreeBSD is the primary platform that Yahoo operates its servers on, so high performance networking code in FreeBSD is very important to them. You should contact Joseph and Mohan directly, to get the most accurate information about their involvement in FreeBSD, since I might have made some mistakes. As for myself, Craig Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I contribute to FreeBSD in different areas. For FreeBSD 6.0, I have contributed bugfixes to various areas of the FreeBSD code. For FreeBSD 7 (which has not been released), I am collaborating with Alexander Kabaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to port the high performance XFS filesystem to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, we were not able to finish our work for FreeBSD 6. XFS was originally written by SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.) for their IRIX operating system, but they have ported their code to [GNU]Linux. Alexander and I are working to port this code to FreeBSD, and we have a project web page at: http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/ [</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]o[</>]