From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 00:47:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A484106564A for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:47:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from totoaus@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11ABD8FC15 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd5 with SMTP id 5so6574049gyd.13 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:47:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type; bh=FJ0qjw+vMRfKSyAhzIJ8mA3j4VEEi41W8pMfe5wDJvU=; b=RFhqXFNEqQQkAMd7j1b5ZrYwkIOOxDlGr3bIRTeANZXXkY5smHuu4eEUTkSvtN2I3Z xFX8FFxCnuAKiGeamU+eDy54f6lo+fOnHixFgc0CTKpJK+dpagYzVPOIRge2/tR8GDn0 bon/EUj+22ltqkIuyfTEEpo/VIpx2WIxilCcs= Received: by 10.236.153.101 with SMTP id e65mr34666556yhk.59.1320711618581; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:20:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (CPE-121-223-152-212.lns2.bat.bigpond.net.au. [121.223.152.212]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i67sm30474763yhm.16.2011.11.07.16.20.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:20:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:20:12 +1100 From: David Morton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------030500000006040404030006" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:22:34 +0000 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: FreeBSD idea X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:47:21 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030500000006040404030006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn and do something of interest to me: get deep knowledge of one platform. A local magazine, Silicon Chip; and one of it's writers have developed a little computer called the MaxiMite. Details here: http://geoffg.net/maximite.html It's a PIC32 single chip computer that I use through USB emulation of a serial port. I would like to try and build on it, and the first thought would be if it could run a limited version of BSD, as an alternative OS using the same boot loader. Microchip has an IDE, with a free version that uses C, and I speculate that much of the OS could be stored of the SD card, with only the barest minimum in the on board flash. I'm not dumping this all on others though, I am looking at adding extra RAM, and wired Ethernet; probably through an alternative hardware equivalent from Olimex that is due soon. Please reply direct to me, I haven't found how to get on the mailing list, or decided if I should. David -- David Morton PO Box 216 Geeveston TAS 7116 AUSTRALIA Email: totoaus@gmail.com Mobile: 0400 560 330 Skype: david-ah-morton --------------030500000006040404030006--