Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:04:53 -0600 From: Tyler Gee <geekout@gmail.com> To: olivier@gautherot.net Cc: matthewjordan110@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Curious (Student) Message-ID: <6e01203b0410220804434cca99@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47521.194.98.178.34.1098452181.squirrel@jose.freesurf.fr> References: <BAY9-F33U6xfPTeip680000107f@hotmail.com> <47521.194.98.178.34.1098452181.squirrel@jose.freesurf.fr>
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Matthew, I am reading over *The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System* right now and it is filled with everything you need to know to grok the entire kernel. Give it a go if you have the $60, if not, see if there is a local BSD user group [2] in your area as they might have a copy that you could purchase (plus you should go to the UG meetings anyway). Good luck and have fun, -wtgee [1]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201702452/qid=1098457315/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-6610586-2647058 [2]http://www.freebsd.org/usergroups.html On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:36:21 +0200 (CEST), Olivier Gautherot <olivier@gautherot.net> wrote: > Hi Matthew! > > Welcome to the club :-) The only thing I can tell you is that you > made a good choice for your new OS - definitely a lot of good stuff > to learn... and valuable experience if one day you choose to look > at something else but I know I should not talk about competition ;-) > The community is great too - that's another asset of the project. > > > > The other programming task I can get done given a set of standards, but > > the one question that I have not been so far been able to answer due > > to the lack of financial resources is: Is there a general motherboard > > architechture, you see if I knew the specfic address of the DMA, IO > > Controller etc, I would be in a position to write low level code to > > operate with high level code. > > Well, if you (or a neighbour) have an old PC that you're about to scrap, > it is probably a good candidate for a test machine. BSD will run on > old architectures (Pentium and before) - although you should not expect > to run the latest KDE or 3D flight simulator on it ;-) If you're > interested in networking, you can run a more than decent firewall, though. > > > > So I am requestion the oportunity to help further develpe this project > > in return for access to highly technical data; please note I already > > know a myriad of programming languages including, C, C++, C#, Fortran, > > Basic, Pascal, J, J++, Java , D, Visual Basic, Assembly etc. I also > > possess many other technical skills and knowledge. Furthermore I > > possess an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering, and various CXC > > passes especially in Mathematics, Physics, Engilsh, Electronics. > > Sounds like you're going to have fun with the 11000+ packages available! > Have a look at the existing software and see what you're interested in. > All packages have a TODO list so you'll have plenty to occupy your free > time and more. I would suggest to install the system on a machine and > play around to start with. Just reading the handbook should keep you > busy for a few days. > > Hope to see your name soon in the "New committers" list! > > Cheers > Olivier > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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