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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:41:35 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        Siddharth Prakash Singh <spsneo@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea
Message-ID:  <20090226134135.156d3b86@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <e8e9f3930902260423q3d405b32s161d4d6222bbfce7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:53:48 +0530
Siddharth Prakash Singh <spsneo@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Do you use FreeBSD? __How long have you used it?
> > What do you do with it?
> No, I haven't really used FreeBSD much. I have been using Linux since long!
> >
> > Have you read Kirk McKusick's book on FreeBSD internals?
> No. But I have sound knowledge of Linux and Minix Kernel.
> >

Having done development on both FreeBSD and Linux I can authoritatively
state that they're totally different animals.

But just because you only have Linux knowledge doesn't exclude you from
doing FreeBSD development.  It will just take a while to get up to speed.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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