From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 20 7: 4:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDEC937B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7ED43E3B for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:04:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 18110 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2002 15:04:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 20 Nov 2002 15:04:44 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAKF4e2D034579; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:04:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1037765583.69513.31.camel@lobo> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:04:45 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Ryan Sommers Subject: RE: Playing with Current. Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Nov-2002 Ryan Sommers wrote: > First off I wasn't sure which list to send this to: current, hackers or > questions; so if this is the wrong destination my apologies. > > Anyway, last year, after years of using Linux, I fell in love with the > FreeBSD project. Now, I've had the desire offer my time and energy to > help development. My problem though is I only have 3 machines where I'm > currently living, 2 desktops and a laptop. I have to leave Windows > installed on one desktop for compatibility and I'd like to leave the > other desktop running 4.x so I have a UNIX computer that I know will > always be working. That leaves me with the laptop to play with 5.0 and > CURRENT. However, the laptop is a puny Cyrix P180+ (I think it's the > MediaGX chip or whatever they were touting a few years back). Doing a > make world or building a kernel would probably take me two weeks, not > the best environment for development. > > My question is could I keep and build the CURRENT source tree on the > FreeBSD desktop, mount it over NFS to the laptop, and install it over > the NFS mount? I know I can do that with 4.x, but I'm wondering if this > is really testing CURRENT if I don't build it on the 5.0 kernel. For now > I really don't think I'll be able to help much with writing anything too > intense; however I noticed in the latest 5.0 release notes that people > have been converting Perl scripts to C and I'm more then capable of > doing that. And I also think the laptop, even though it is slow would be > a usable platform for working on that kind of development. This should work fine (doing installworld over NFS). You might want to do the initial install on the laptop using a CD or floppies to install DP2 however. > What are your thoughts on this setup; is it worth my time or should I > just sit idly by until I can get a desktop system to play with CURRENT. > I have a little free time and about 7 years experience programming C in > Linux and UNIX (peanuts compared to most people reading this I imagine) > but I'd like to help a cause I believe in. Just using 5.0 will help find some bugs I'm sure. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message