From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 18 11:12:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (termroom.bsdcon.org [206.55.247.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD7D37B4CF for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13lxrx-0000Pr-00; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:23:17 -0600 Message-ID: <39EDEA94.BAE8F635@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:23:16 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurence Berland Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting to code References: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net> <39EBE9FE.9CFB1373@softweyr.com> <39ED1AE2.4914EE6C@confusion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Laurence Berland wrote: > > 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... WindowMaker. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message