From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 22:55:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7195037B4E5 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13lPjS-0000DN-00; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:56:14 -0600 Message-ID: <39EBE9FE.9CFB1373@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:56:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurence Berland Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting to code References: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message