From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 23:09:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 737E2D0; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (gate2.funkthat.com [208.87.223.18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gold.funkthat.com", Issuer "gold.funkthat.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39A41269; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.funkthat.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id t12N9bwX014712 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by gold.funkthat.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id t12N9bk3014711; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:09:37 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: R0B_ROD Subject: Re: Introduction Message-ID: <20150202230937.GE27103@funkthat.com> References: <54CFB83A.9080106@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54CFB83A.9080106@gmail.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 54BA 873B 6515 3F10 9E88 9322 9CB1 8F74 6D3F A396 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html X-TipJar: bitcoin:13Qmb6AeTgQecazTWph4XasEsP7nGRbAPE X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (gold.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:09:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:09:45 -0000 R0B_ROD wrote this message on Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 12:47 -0500: > I am merging from Arch Linux, which seems that > they copied BSD a lot. :P > I am excited to be here. I have never been on a mailing list. > My goal is to be a developer of any kind some day. > I am always on my laptop since life has dealt me a bad hand. > Maybe I haven't been very responsible. Who knows? > Trying to do better each day. Looking to make life-long friends. > My spirit is still in the 70's although I am only 30 y/o. > I do feel like I was living in the time and still carry the > 'loving-curious-rebel' attitude. Thanks for reading my ramble. > > r0b-r0d@rama-hkr:~ % uname -a > FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401 > Tue Nov 11 21:0249 UTC 2014 > root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > HP 2B19WM : 4GB RAM : AMD64 E-300 1.4GHz : ATI Radeon 6310HD Have fun here! It look like you have virtualization support on your CPU, so you could run bhyve to get virtual machines for testing/running current, but that requires you to run either 10-stable or head on it... There are plenty of little projects that need people to work on... look at both the bug database and the wiki for ideas... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."