Re: Getting started with Hurd development.

[donnie]

Quoting Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>:

> donnie@darthik.com 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

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