Curious (Student)

[Tyler Gee]

Matthew,

I am reading over *The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD
Operating System* right now and it is filled with everything you need
to know to grok the entire kernel.   Give it a go if you have the $60,
if not, see if there is a local BSD user group [2] in your area as
they might have a copy that you could purchase (plus you should go to
the UG meetings anyway).

Good luck and have fun,

-wtgee


[1]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201702452/qid=1098457315/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-6610586-2647058
[2]http://www.freebsd.org/usergroups.html


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:36:21 +0200 (CEST), Olivier Gautherot
<olivier at gautherot.net> wrote:
> Hi Matthew!
> 
> Welcome to the club :-) The only thing I can tell you is that you
> made a good choice for your new OS - definitely a lot of good stuff
> to learn... and valuable experience if one day you choose to look
> at something else but I know I should not talk about competition ;-)
> The community is great too - that's another asset of the project.
> 
> 
> > The other programming task I can get done given a set of standards, but
> > the  one question that I have not been so far been able to answer due
> > to the lack  of financial resources is: Is there a general motherboard
> > architechture, you  see if I knew the specfic address of the DMA, IO
> > Controller etc, I would be  in a position to write low level code to
> > operate with high level code.
> 
> Well, if you (or a neighbour) have an old PC that you're about to scrap,
> it is probably a good candidate for a test machine. BSD will run on
> old architectures (Pentium and before) - although you should not expect
> to run the latest KDE or 3D flight simulator on it ;-) If you're
> interested in networking, you can run a more than decent firewall, though.
> 
> 
> > So I am requestion the oportunity to help further develpe this project
> > in  return for access to highly technical data; please note I already
> > know a  myriad of programming languages including, C, C++, C#, Fortran,
> > Basic,  Pascal, J, J++, Java , D, Visual Basic, Assembly etc. I also
> > possess many  other technical skills and knowledge. Furthermore I
> > possess an Associate  Degree in Electrical Engineering, and various CXC
> > passes especially in  Mathematics, Physics, Engilsh, Electronics.
> 
> Sounds like you're going to have fun with the 11000+ packages available!
> Have a look at the existing software and see what you're interested in.
> All packages have a TODO list so you'll have plenty to occupy your free
> time and more. I would suggest to install the system on a machine and
> play around to start with. Just reading the handbook should keep you
> busy for a few days.
> 
> Hope to see your name soon in the "New committers" list!
> 
> Cheers
>   Olivier
> 
> 
> 
> 
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