Re: Curious (Student)

From: Olivier Gautherot (olivier_at_gautherot.net)
Date: 10/22/04

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    Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:36:21 +0200 (CEST)
To: <matthewjordan110@hotmail.com>

    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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