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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:37:06 -0500
From:      Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Starting to code
Message-ID:  <39ED1AE2.4914EE6C@confusion.net>
References:  <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net> <39EBE9FE.9CFB1373@softweyr.com>

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Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
I thought it was more than fast enough, and for most things it is, but
KDE manages to crawl nonetheless...

-- 
Laurence Berland
Intern, Flooz.com
Northwestern '04
stuyman@confusion.net


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