Quoting Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi, > > > I am senior undergraduate in Computer Science > > of Engineering, and I am very interested in > > the development of operating systems. I would like > > to become involved with the Hurd project, but > > I have little experience with OS development. > > Cool! All help is welcome! >
Thanks! I look forward to learning and contributing. > > I looked at the Development page on your website, > > http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/devel.html, but > > I am in need of maybe more direction of a "good place to start." > > Of course, I know I need to install Hurd and become familiar > > with it first! :-) > > Do you know the Hurd hackers guide? That is how I started. > http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html > Just started reading that today after I sent out the email. ;-) > > And of course you can read sourcecode, etc. Can you tell us what you > are interested in? Personally I like to focus on just one thing at > the time, for example filesystems or the console. > I like device drivers, scheduling, memory managment, security. I've read that device drivers are a good and simpler way to get started in kernel development... > > Another source of information is IRC. There are a lot of people who > can help you and some that might scare you away. But you can have a > look on #hug and #hurd on irc.freenode.net for general Hurd discussion > and on #hurd-l4 if you are interested in the L4 Hurd development. > Is it expected that Hurd will completely move to the L4 microkernel? In other words, should development not be focused on Mach anymore and just on L4? > > > I have recently purchased Operating Systems: Design and Implementation > (Second > > Edition) by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull, and > > I was wondering if there are any other books/articles that > > you would recommend, either in print or online. > > Read as much as you can. Depending on the kind of stuff you want to > look at, it can differ what you should read. Tanenbaum is a nice read > I think. :) > > -- > Marco > Thanks. I try to read as much as possible. __ Donnie ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
