Re: Seeking guidance on starting FreeBSD contribution

Hi!

> However, I don’t use FreeBSD regularly and I’m not sure where to start or how its components work in practice. I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to begin learning about FreeBSD development or how to get involved with small contributions.

I think definitely the #1 thing you should do is actually use FreeBSD
regularly. Once you do you'll quickly figure out how things work
especially if you try to drill down and try to understand things that
you don't understand or seem weird to you.

In terms of contributions, you might come up with some small stuff you
wanna do while doing #1, but otherwise if you hang around FreeBSD
spaces long enough I'm sure you'll stumble across something you wanna
work on.

There's also the ideas list although these count as a bit more than
"small" contributions:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas

But yeah overall my only advice is to actually use (as your daily
driver if you can) and spend time with FreeBSD.

On Mon, 15 Sept 2025 at 01:11, Ananay Sharma <ananaysharma299@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> I’m Ananay Sharma, a 2nd-year undergraduate student in Computer Science. For the past few months, I have been learning how computer systems work and studying Operating Systems through the UCB OS lectures. I found FreeBSD fascinating and would really love to contribute to it in the future.
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> However, I don’t use FreeBSD regularly and I’m not sure where to start or how its components work in practice. I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to begin learning about FreeBSD development or how to get involved with small contributions.
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> Thank you very much for your time.
>
> Best regards,
> Ananay Sharma
>