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Hi,

     I am facing problems with compilation. Is there
any FAQs or forums in which all this basic problems
are already answered?? Kindly post the link's for the
same.

Thanks in advance

--- Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> wrote:

> >      I am a newbie to freebsd. But i do like to
> > contribute to the development of this OS. Kindly
> can
> 
> Excellent.  You might want to start with
> FreeBSD/ia32
> if you are new to FreeBSD.
> 
> > somebody tell me where to start. I am a
> programmer, so
> > i guess i can catch up bitter faster if somebody
> > directs me to proper start. I do like to start
> with
> > 32bit compilation of this OS and understanding its
> > flow. So I need help here.
> 
> Basically do the following:
> 
>  * Start with the various Handbooks (Devel, Arch,
> User)
>    published by the project.
>  * Subscribe to the Freebsd-hackers and
> FreeBSD-current
>    mailing lists to keep upto date.
>  * Read up on how to mirror FreeBSD's sources and
> how
>    to build the system from source.
>  * Play around with 'make world' and 'make kernel'.
> 
> Once you are upto speed, you can check out your
> understanding
> of the code by fixing some of the PRs (bugs) in
> FreeBSD's
> PR database.
> 
> You can also contribute by porting applications and
> contributing documentation.
> 
> --
> FreeBSD Volunteer,    
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
> 



		
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