contributing to open source

[Littlefield, Tyler]

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Pleas disregard everything that was previously mentioned in the email
below mine. I don't like to top post, but I also don't like to quote
such garbage.
firstly, to the writing better: english is not everyone's first
language. Also see [1].
Secondly, you do not need to get 90 different systems to contribute to
development. If you have unsupported hardware, you could begin by
working on drivers for that hardware. Otherwise, check out the FreeBSD
wiki page at [2] for a todo.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
[2]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage
On 5/22/2016 1:54 PM, Joe Nosay wrote:
> You need to clarify that which you are asking.  In the skill set
> that you have, what do you create naturally? Now, think about
> applying that knowledge of C and C++ to an application that you
> find beneficial to others and yourself. The first thing for you to
> do is to install the system on a variety of computers. You need
> some of different architectures. Why? Because every CPU is not
> designed to do the same job; nor are they going to perform the
> same way. Grab yourself an UltraSPARC station, a PowerMac G4, a
> PowerMac G5, a Raspberry pi, and two standard AMD64 laptops - they
> will be for both 32 bit and 64 bit compiling. You will need to take
> notes on paper because the system is simple and complex at the same
> time. The kernel has to match the hardware; and, you will need to
> learn a few more languages. You have forth, lua, haskell, pascal,
> python, and java as a start. You will need to learn to map the
> devices before you think of using them. Believe me, it makes
> sense. You are going to have to correct a lot of software errors. 
> And, you will have to deal with people on a personal basis. This
> means you need to write more legibly.
> 
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Kefeh Collins
> <kefehcollins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> hello i am a second year computer science student, program in c
>> and c++ and am interested in contributing in operating system
>> (kernel) directed projects please i need guidance
>> 
>> thanks in advance 
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