From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 27 23:34:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C81E37B402 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 23:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14MAuo-0000EJ-00; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:35:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3A71995A.E39E0884@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:35:54 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame) References: <8c.189517c.27a24307@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com wrote: > > hey guys i know you probably get this question all the time but i am looking > into getting into doing somekernel hacking first i will tell you some thing i > have assumed about it: > 1.) you should know atleast more programming language well (probably C would > be best) > > 2.) you should know some basic stuff about FreeBSD internels (i am planning > on getting The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System Several others have made good replies to this, but here's another thought: The best way to learn something is to have a goal in mind. If you understand C pretty well, pick a PR out of the problem report database and start working on that. It will give you a starting point and a goal. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message