From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 22:05:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29688 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29683 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:05:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA20513; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:05:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:05:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Burton Sampley cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD ?'s In-Reply-To: <32E6A515.167EB0E7@best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Burton Sampley wrote: > I have a few questions for the FBSD Team. First want to take a minute > to say thanks for a job well done. I started using 2.1.5 and recently > converted to 2.2 -Beta. FBSD is the ONLY OS on my system. I wouldn't > go back to a Micro$oft OS, even if somebody paid me to do it! Thanks! > ? #1: I would like to request permission to use the "powered by FBSD" > gif on my webpage. I have down loaded the gif and placed it on my > webpage with a link to http://www.freebsd.org. I have requested and > received permission from Kirk McKusick, the copyright owner of the > daemon. My webpage is located at http://www.best.com/~bsampley. To the > best of my knowqledge, Best.com also uses FBSD. If my request is > denied, please let me know and I will remove the gif from my webpage. I don't think it's a problem, as long as www.best.com continues to run FreeBSD. Lucky for you they do now: gdi,ttyp2,~,67>telnet www.best.com Trying 206.184.139.14... Connected to www.best.com. Escape character is '^]'. FreeBSD (proxy3.ba.best.com) (ttyp3) > ? #2: I am currently majoring in Computer Science at Califronia State > University at Hayward. I would like to help with the FBSD project, > however at this time I feel my programming skills are not up to the > level that I feel is required to be helpful. Are there any small > projects that a beginning programmer can help code? I enjoy using FBSD, > but I would really like to give something back. How can I help? (FYI: > I'm curently taking the second C++ class and a beginning assembly > langauage class. About 7 or 8 years ago I took a few classes in Pascal, > but I don't remember very much about Pascal.) You're in my boat. You can ask in hackers@freebsd.org for programming bits. Or, we need document writers and support people as much as programmers! Check out the Handbook and freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list for how to help with documentation. Tune into the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org list or the newsgroup comp.os.unix.freebsd.misc (?) for first-line support. Your pascal will help you for structure but not for programming; Unix uses pretty much exclusively C, not even much assember except for kernel bits. Hope this helps! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major