Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 22:12:46 -0700 (MST) From: Neal Fachan <kneel@ishifishy.ishiboo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Possible projects? Message-ID: <199701250512.WAA28150@ishifishy.ishiboo.com>
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Hello. Don't know if this is the correct place to put it, so if it isn't, please redirect me. I am currently taking an independent study os course here at UNM (university near money). I am working with Dr. Barne Maccabe. Figuring that the best way to learn os's is to hack them, we have decided this will be a project course. Also figuring that if I work on a toy, there will be no motivation to finish it; we have decided that I should do something non-toyish. I have unfortunately not been able to convert any of the linux using faculty to FreeBSD yet (though there are a few promising leads...), thus his suggestions are to do things with linux. Most of these are just fixing things, say NFS, TCP, NIS, etc. But I cannot bear the thought of having to deal with linux, especially at that level. :-) So, are there any reasonable projects in the areas of VM or file-systems that are not too high priority, but at the same time are desirable, that I could possible work on? I would like it to be possible, assuming that I do something reasonable, for the code to be merged back in the tree; but at the same time, I am not asking for anyone to just let some "undergrad who just learned to spell ``C'' last week" one the team. I am just looking for a promising project. So is there a to-do list or any other list of ideas? Or does anyone out there have any ideas? I would say that I am an intermediate programmer. I have been programming for about three years, but only one and a half intensely. I am fluent in C. I have dealt with reasonably large (100k line) projects in the past... Thanks for any leads. -- Neal Fachan kneel@ishiboo.com
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