Where / how to begin the FreeBSD development journey?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On 21 Jul 2003 22:30:39 -0500, Shawn <drevil at warpcore.org> wrote:

> I've recently setup and started using Free-BSD 5.1 as my desktop at home
> and was looking to find more information about getting started in
> contributing to the Free-BSD project.
>
> What piqued my interest is the well organised clean Free-BSD kernel, and
> the vast wealth of documentation on using the system. Also, the general
> attitude of the Free-BSD community seems to be far more mature than that
> of many other operating systems projects that seem to be appearing all
> over lately. While I am no master of the trade so to speak, I have seen
> lots of code over the last 10 years or so, and reading the Free-BSD
> kernel code is quite pleasant and enjoyable in comparison.
>
> The responsiveness and stability of Free-BSD 5.1 on my system have
> convinced me enough that I've switched my personal development desktop
> and email to Free-BSD 5.1, it really is that wonderful.
>
> Now before anyone floats away from all the hot air I've blown, I was
> wondering if there were any other recommended pieces of reading material
> that might be helpful in better understanding Free-BSD's architecture
> and design. I am aware of Tannenbaum's books, and I also own a few Linux
> Kernel books as well.
>
> As well, I have read through most of the documentation already
> (certainly all that was available in the installer), and did not find
> any specific mentions of how one should begin to familiarise themselves
> with FreeBSD's internals and so forth. I did however find some
> recommendations to read 'The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD
> Operating System', which I recently obtained and have begun.
>
> I did peruse the bugs list at the FreeBSD web site curious as to what
> the current outstanding issue list was, and felt compelled to see if
> there was anything left open that I might put my hand to and felt a bit
> overwhelmed. I noticed that there are over 2,000 some entries with some
> dating as far back as 1996. So, I wasn't exactly sure where one would
> begin there either.
>
> An acquaintance of mine had suggested that I should involve myself with
> the newly founded DragonFly BSD project. But, I felt that I would rather
> start here first.
>
> So where or how does one begin the journey?

Is this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers- 
handbook/ what you are looking for? Also, you can try to check 
http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html ..

Cheers,
Mezz


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