From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 18:40:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D136A3D for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 18:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tds-solutions.net (tds-solutions.net [69.164.206.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4110BCF1 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 18:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.224] (unknown [69.43.65.114]) (Authenticated sender: tyler) by tds-solutions.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9955CA093 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:45:53 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <53176FB4.1080908@tysdomain.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:40:52 -0500 From: "Littlefield, Tyler" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: getting involved and contributing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: tyler@tysdomain.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 18:40:24 -0000 Hello all: I had a fewe questions I wanted to ask. I'm looking for areas in which I might contribute code (c/c++, Python etc). As I'm new to the code contribution deal, I'd like to start off with something small if possible. My interests are mainly in security and systems development, though I'm probably not all that great at either. Similarly, I had a few questions: 1) what is a free or cheap method for testing code, branches etc? I have two systems here, but I am unable to duel boot. 2) I could use VMWare for testing, but that limits my ability to do much testing. Given that though, is there a way to automate the install of BSD? Basically: I am blind and am unable to install BSD by myself without help. Solutions exist for serial ports, but I've not really had much great luck connecting to that through a host. If there's a solution for a scripted install, that would be awesome. Thanks, -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.