Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:27:18 -0600 From: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com> To: David Morton <totoaus@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD idea Message-ID: <A697A2BA-CFBD-4404-A663-E57067F9BA4D@d3photography.com> In-Reply-To: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> References: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com>
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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"
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