From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 03:27:33 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 7EB6D106566B for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 03:27:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from editor@d3photography.com) Received: from server.cwis.biz (70-89-202-5-invergrove-mn.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.89.202.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B3F8FC17 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 03:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.cwis.biz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.cwis.biz (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC36279030B; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:32:06 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cwis.biz Received: from server.cwis.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by server.cwis.biz (server.cwis.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DozOBV4g5d-S; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:31:53 -0600 (CST) Received: from [10.0.1.9] (70-89-202-1-invergrove-mn.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [70.89.202.1]) by server.cwis.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B7A7A2790309; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:31:53 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Ryan Coleman In-Reply-To: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:27:18 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> To: David Morton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 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 03:27:33 -0000 I'd love to have this discussion on the list for the record, in case = someone in the future wants to give this a shot, too. On Nov 7, 2011, at 6:20 PM, David Morton wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Please reply direct to me, I haven't found how to get on the mailing = list, or decided if I should. >=20 > David > --=20 > David Morton > PO Box 216 > Geeveston TAS 7116 > AUSTRALIA >=20 > Email: totoaus@gmail.com > Mobile: 0400 560 330 > Skype: david-ah-morton > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"