Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:56:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting to code Message-ID: <39EBE9FE.9CFB1373@softweyr.com> References: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net>
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Laurence Berland wrote:
>
> What's a good place to start if you're a university student with limited
> hardware who wants to jump in and get going with the FreeBSD code.
> Right now I've got a PPro 200 with 32 MB of ram and lots of disk space
> (~50 gigs). 10 gigs or so is used by FreeBSD-Stable. I'm thinking of
> tossing Current on also, and maybe making the cvs repo a separate
> partition so I can share it between current and stable.
I love it when people call a PPro 200 with 32 MB "limited hardware". My
first Free/NetBSD machine was a 386/40 with 8MB RAM and a 340 MB disk, and
it was state of the art except for lack of a CD-ROM drive.
> Mostly at this point I'm looking for a way to jump head first into the
> code. Where's a good starting point?
Look at the PR database, pick a problem, and start looking. Better yet,
pick something that works but isn't documented and write a man page. In
order to write a man page, you need to really understand the code, and
will probably need to write one or several little test programs to exercise
whatever you're documenting.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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