From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 16:09:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA05522 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05514 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA02793; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:33:37 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602200003.KAA02793@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Becoming a Developer. To: RGIREYEV@bellind.com (Rudy Gireyev) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:33:37 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <96Feb19.143017pst.24322@firewall.bellind.com> from "Rudy Gireyev" at Feb 19, 96 02:19:00 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rudy Gireyev stands accused of saying: > > My name is Rudy Gireyev and my address is rgireyev@bellind.com. Working > on the development of an operating system has always made me drool, so I > am exceedingly curious whether I can contribute my services to this > wonderful effort. Please let me know what the requirements are from my > end, hardware, software, books, experience and others. Any and all > questions are welcome I am not easily offended. Go right ahead; get the source, find something you want to work on and do it! In terms of suggestions; I'd say that you'll want two machines, one to work on, and one to test on. The latter can be a really puny specimen (I use an 8M 386/33). >From there it really depends on which part(s) you want to work on. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[