Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:51:36 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting to code Message-ID: <20001016095135.C272@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net>; from stuyman@confusion.net on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:44:01AM -0500 References: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net>
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* Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> [001016 09:46] wrote: > What's a good place to start if you're a university student with limited > hardware who wants to jump in and get going with the FreeBSD code. > Right now I've got a PPro 200 with 32 MB of ram and lots of disk space > (~50 gigs). 10 gigs or so is used by FreeBSD-Stable. I'm thinking of > tossing Current on also, and maybe making the cvs repo a separate > partition so I can share it between current and stable. This is probably a good setup to have for your hacking. > Mostly at this point I'm looking for a way to jump head first into the > code. Where's a good starting point? How to become a freebsd hacker in 3 (not so) easy steps: 1) figure out what you want to work on or learn more about. 2) look at the code in the system, become utterly confused. 3) ask on freebsd-hackers or irc (zb^3 on efnet/irc.freebsd.org) and be enlightened. If you can't accomplish step 1, take a look at the PR system and see if you can close a problem report or at least bring it up for dicussion if you think you see a partial solution. best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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