From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 08:39:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15647 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA15621 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 6174 invoked by uid 1003); 7 Sep 1998 15:38:03 -0000 Message-ID: <19980907173803.A5030@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:38:03 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "jnealy@icubed.net" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions References: <35F3ECE2.14FA@icubed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <35F3ECE2.14FA@icubed.net>; from jnealy@icubed.net on Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:25:39AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon 1998-09-07 (10:25), jnealy@icubed.net wrote: > Who designed the logo anyway? I don't worship Satan, but the FreeBSD > devil is sorta cute-looking. Yeah, he is, isn't he. :) > Serious statement(s): > I have been contemplating switching from Warp to UNIX for a number of > months now. I love the OS/2 alternative to Msoft, but IBM is often > flaky on whether it plans to add capability "x" or feature "y", and > doesn't seem to support 3rd party vendors who are willing. As a > networking/programming person by profession and hobby, I was looking at > FreeBSD as a platform for web server and desktop use because of it's > open support. Good choice. > What could I do to be a contributing member of such a project? Lend a hand where needed... answer FreeBSD-Questions mailing list, write ports, look at and work on the various projects (http://www.freebsd.org/projects/), contribute possible patches to documentation, man pages, kernel source, and so forth. Basically, look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/contrib.html Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message