Hi everyone, first up let me introduce myself, my name is Fredrik Hammar and I'm a 2:nd year computer science under-graduate at Lund's University here in Sweden. My main intrests in the field are OSes, compilers and theory of programming languages. Although I've haven't gotten the chance to study any of those properly yet :(.
I've been interested in the Hurd for quite some time now, I had it installed and used it about 6 months ago but botched my installation when I realized PPPoE wasn't available, which made it quite impractical for me to use. But not before writing a trivial translator that returned prime-numbers ;), and signing up a couple of your mailing lists, mainly to lurk and follow the interesting discussions about l4-Hurd (and beyond). I was thinking about how to get by during the summer when I noticed you guys on as mentors for Google summer of code, which reinvigorated my interest of the Hurd. So I reinstalled the Hurd, but this time on qemu so I don't have to reboot to access the net and later I hope to get it running on Xen. Then I proceeded investigating the proposed projects and libchannel is the one that interests me the most. However it might be a bit more than I can chew... The main problem is my lack of experience with the Hurd's internals and OSes in general. But since my studies right now are quite relaxed, I feel I should be able to catch up by the time GsoC starts. I could easily spend 10h a week studying the Hurd and `bonding' with you guys (as Google puts it), and will spend more time than that as needed if it's available. As a plus studying libstore during this time, which should help me immensely with the design of libchannel, will give me an opportunity to go through and fix some of libstore's documentation. Luckily I DO have experience with C, make and autotools, although mainly on small projects of my own and nothing this big. All the other suggestions also seem to require similar knowledge of the Hurd (although not as much) in addition to something else of which I have little or no experience with (sound, nfs, etc.). I've also been considering doing a project on GCC, but I've only come up with pretty sketchy ideas. So I want a second opinion; should I go for it and write a proposal for a libchannel implementation or should I consider some other project instead? Eagerly awating response, Fredrik PS. I'm new to posting on mailing lists, please excuse and correct any misstakes I make. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
