From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 11 9:42:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C40437B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:42:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA36303; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:42:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Joe Warner Cc: "Tyler K McGeorge" , "Damien Tougas" , Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda References: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <01031108370900.00256@blackmirror.xmission.com> <01031110255100.00538@blackmirror.xmission.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Mar 2001 18:42:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: Joe Warner's message of "Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:18:47 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joe Warner writes: > What's the next step? Start reading my books? Pretty much, yeah. And read source code, and toy with it. Find something in /usr/src that's not too big, make modifications and see how they affect the program's behaviour. > How did you get started? Programming C, or hacking FreeBSD? I switched to C after several years of BASIC and Pascal, on a recommendation from my eldest brother. I got my FreeBSD commit privileges for fixing deadlocks in the console driver which I stumbled over while toying with Mike's splashkit and trying to write a graphical screensaver (which later became logo_saver). Prior to that, I had submitted a handful of PRs about bugs in configuration files and scripts. The kernel scared the beejezus out of me at that time :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message