From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 9:51:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B94337B672 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9GGpa310113; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:51:36 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Laurence Berland Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting to code Message-ID: <20001016095135.C272@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net>; from stuyman@confusion.net on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:44:01AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Laurence Berland [001016 09:46] 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. This is probably a good setup to have for your hacking. > Mostly at this point I'm looking for a way to jump head first into the > code. Where's a good starting point? How to become a freebsd hacker in 3 (not so) easy steps: 1) figure out what you want to work on or learn more about. 2) look at the code in the system, become utterly confused. 3) ask on freebsd-hackers or irc (zb^3 on efnet/irc.freebsd.org) and be enlightened. If you can't accomplish step 1, take a look at the PR system and see if you can close a problem report or at least bring it up for dicussion if you think you see a partial solution. best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message