freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 201, Issue 14

Oren Almog oren.almog at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 22:36:06 UTC 2008


I can actually sympathize with that. I am currently trying to understand 
some of the inner workings of the FreeBSD kernel but the lack
of any design documents make it very challenging. And this is FreeBSD - 
whose documentation is held in high regard - most open source projects 
are very poor on inner workings documentation.

>   
>> >     1. I wish there were free software programming crash courses for
>> >        beginners=(beginners in programming) in every free software
>> >        community event and gath=eting, providing and entry route for
>> >        those who want to contribute for the a=vailability of free
>> >        software in all areas of thought and all ciences and al=l
>> >        activities and not just be passive users. It could be just at free
>> >        softwa=re events or in association with universities through
>> >        summer schools, for e=xample.
>>     
>
> http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html
> http://www.mindview.net/Books
> http://math.arizona.edu/~swig/documentation/pthreads/
> http://www.intelligentedu.com/
>
> Just some of my bookmarks.
> Also:
> ls -al /usr/share/doc/psd on a FreeBSD system.
>
> As for courses:
> http://www.oreillyschool.com/
> -- Mel
>
>
>   


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