Eight Students to Code for Haiku at GSoC 2007

As just announced at haiku-os.org eight students will work on Haiku projects during the summer.

The following topics will be covered:

• Network stack revamp: IPv6, ICMP, multicast, etc.


• Create a thread scheduler with CPU affinity


• USB isochronous streams


• FireWire stack for Haiku


• Network Preferences Application


• Package (.pkg) installer for the Haiku Operating System


• Implement ICMP error handling and propagation


• Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches