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» An Implementation of User-level Restartable Atomic Sequences on the NetBSD Operating System
   Paper by Gregory McGarry detailing part of the groundwork needed for NetBSD's threading system and scheduler activations. [Freenix]
   http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/full_papers/mcgarry/mcgarry_html/index.html

» NetBSD Ppbus Project
   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.
   http://netbsd-ppbus.sourceforge.net/

» NetBSD and Handheld Platforms
   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]
   http://2004.eurobsdcon.org/uploads/media/EBSD04_37.pdf

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

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

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

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