Hi, On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:44:46PM -0400, Kyle Bayes wrote:
Sorry for the late answer... I'm desperately trying to catch up with the backlog in my inbox. > I work as a software programmer and web designer/programmer, writing > free software for a small company in my hometown. Nice :-) > I've been using Debian GNU/Hurd for quite a while now. I also have > been learning about Hurd for about a year, and I've even wrote some > basic translators. That's pretty impressive... I'm surprised you haven't contacted us before :-) I'm looking forward to your contributions! > My interests include porting packages and writing documentation > and working on existing or writing new Hurd servers or libraries. > Also, I'm willing to work on the standard C library. You seem to have a pretty good idea already what you want to work on -- so I guess you don't need us to propose any specific tasks to you?... > I do not have a lot of practice in kernel programming, besides > writing a couple of Hurd translators, but I did put a lot of time > reading about kernel development. At my university's library I > spent hours reading most of the available books on operating > systems. I studied the Minux source code to understand how > multi-server kernels work. I also studied Mach's source code as > well. I read a lot of research that was going on in 2nd generation > micro-kernels, such as L4. Plus, I'm familiar with the concepts > of Hurd and Mach. Again, very impressive :-) -antrik-
