[clug] Question: FOSS and Teaching Software Engineering

[Hal Ashburner]

Here's a couple that might be of interest.

John Shepherd http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~jas/
Has in the past used PostgreSQL for his DBMS implementation course @ UNSW.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9315/05s2/lec/

Harvard and a few others use OS161 to teach operating systems.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/course/cs161/
Which is around 30k LoC and far more manageable to learn and hack than a 
full blown BSD system. This seems like a reasonable, more modern 
replacement for the Lions book, features more easily readable code and 
runs on a MIPS R3000 simulator to which one can connect gdb. The 
sourcecode has key features such as system calls, the filesystem and 
virtual memory unimplemented.