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Links about development of the NetBSD Operating system. Both kernel and userland development should be covered here.

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• An Implementation of User-level Restartable Atomic Sequences on the NetBSD Operating System

  http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/full_papers/mcgarry/mcgarry_html/index.html
  Paper by Gregory McGarry detailing part of the groundwork needed for NetBSD's threading system and scheduler activations. [Freenix]

• NetBSD and Handheld Platforms

  http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/uploads/media/EBSD04_37.pdf
  A paper describing the technical challenges in porting NetBSD to a handheld devices, as well as reasons one would wish to install it on one. [EuroBSDCon]

• NetBSD Ppbus Project

  http://netbsd-ppbus.sourceforge.net/
  A project whose aim is to update the printing subsystem for the NetBSD operating system to use the ppbus system developed on FreeBSD, another open source BSD system.

• Scheduler Activations on NetBSD

  http://web.mit.edu/nathanw/www/usenix/
  Paper by Nathan Williams regarding the implementation of scheduler activations on NetBSD. [Freenix]

• The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d System

  http://www.mewburn.net/luke/papers/rc.d.pdf
  Paper by Luke Mewburn on the implementation of NetBSD 1.5's new startup system. [Freenix]

• UBC: An Efficient Unified I/O and Memory Caching Subsystem for NetBSD

  http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/full_papers/silvers/silvers_html/
  A paper by Chuck Silvers about the design and implementation of the Unified Buffer Cache (UBC) in NetBSD. [Freenix]

• Verified Executables for NetBSD

  http://www.users.on.net/~blymn/veriexec/
  Paper by Brett Lymn describing his implementation of a "kernel-level tripwire" for NetBSD.

 

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