June 14, 2024 at 12:42 PM, "Abhiseck Paira" <abhis...@paira.in> wrote:
> > Hello Hurd, > > I'm a final year undergraduate Computer Science student at Kolkata. > > At the end of our course (which is 1+ year from now) the university > > requires that we do some kind of "project". As I am into free > > software, I want the work I do for this university project be useful > > to free software. I'm thinking of doing some hurd related work as I'm > > interested in learning about Operating systems and kernels. I have > > few doubts though: > > 1. Is Hurd the right choice? Will I be able to do something useful and > > presentable in 1 year considering that I have so little knowledge and > > experience? > > Here I should state what I've learned in my course so far. I've > > learned Some basic operating system concepts (few chapters from > > Tanenbaum's book "Modern Operating Systems", *not* the MINIX 3 book), > > Computer organisation, 8085 assembly programming (and of course others > > which I'm omitting thinking they are not relevant). > > 2. Should I read the Minix 3 book and learn Minix 3 OS, before delving > > into Hurd? > > Finally, my classmate Pritam (in CC) also wants to work on the Hurd as > > we'll be doing this university project together. > > Thanks, > > Abhiseck. > > -- > > Abhiseck Paira (https://paira.in)/ > > Guide to secure email communication: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ > > "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." You could take a look at the project ideas: https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/community/gsoc/project_ideas/ You could definitely do some useful things. :)
