From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 17 20:38: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD1D37B479 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA00191; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:38:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from confusion.net (dhcp089155.res-hall.nwu.edu [199.74.89.155]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma000113; Tue, 17 Oct 00 22:37:49 -0500 Message-ID: <39ED1AE2.4914EE6C@confusion.net> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:37:06 -0500 From: Laurence Berland X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting to code References: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net> <39EBE9FE.9CFB1373@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > > Laurence Berland 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. > > I love it when people call a PPro 200 with 32 MB "limited hardware". My > first Free/NetBSD machine was a 386/40 with 8MB RAM and a 340 MB disk, and > it was state of the art except for lack of a CD-ROM drive. > I thought it was more than fast enough, and for most things it is, but KDE manages to crawl nonetheless... -- Laurence Berland Intern, Flooz.com Northwestern '04 stuyman@confusion.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message