From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 05:41:46 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 38A10106566C for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 05:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f47.google.com (mail-qw0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F348FC17 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2011 05:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qabj40 with SMTP id j40so46820qab.13 for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:41:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=KRd1kIIUqUhkLWqjNzGVRieXG75Wh7BlxVPwTiLmcQY=; b=NuqgVa9xQ1Xk1NiGIqw4G3hanB0FjZWO3Gbqjwp6+cVW+PGfrbLs4gdhDQgqLSlcXt fLBBEZY4ySz44TYLwijB4JViT4l5DpBLERRDetYi+Lf4DENU+8fxkmJoPxn6e1ymqvRd 8KJOnNlqk7vw6d219yiK3erpPnOOBr1gOjVjo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.194.5 with SMTP id dw5mr13925823qab.16.1320730904904; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.73.195 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:41:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> References: <4EB875BC.4010606@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:41:44 -0500 Message-ID: From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: David Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 05:41:46 -0000 On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:20 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. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > To subscribe to freebsd-questions , please see http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/ Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk