Mininal skills

[Brandon helsley]

  >Are you actually using FreeBSD? Before even thinking of contributing,
 
 
why don't you give yourself 1 or 2 years of solid use of the operating
 
system? Install, uninstall, break, fix, reinstall, configure. You can
 
do this in a VM first and then maybe on real hardware. You don't go
 
from n00b to developer in one day.
 
 

 
I started using FreeBSD about 2 months ago and have purchased books like absolute freebsd and have learned a lot.
 
I can set up a desktop environment that has all the programs I need, so that's not the problem. It's that I want to progress past simple editing of configuration files and minor system administration tasks like the crontab. I want to try and stick with FreeBSD as my main and probably mostly only OS. Meaning, I would like to skip the ubuntu step. It seems as though the FreeBSD docs is the way to go. Just read it over a few times, as well as the porters handbook. I'll get straight to it so I can contribute to ports and docs, even if it takes a couple years!!!
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
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> On Jun 4, 2020 at 2:05 AM, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions  <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>  wrote:
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>  On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 22:54, Brandon Helsley  <brandon.helsley at hotmail.com>  wrote:  >   >  I've searched around FreeBSD documentation and have found that most of the contributions require at least minimal programming skills. My question is whether or not there is anything I can contribute or maintain for freebsd without any skills. What direction should I take my education if I wish to be able to maintain a port. Is c++ programming required? What else is required? You have posted a few similar threads on this subject but:  >  Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Are you actually using FreeBSD? Before even thinking of contributing, why don't you give yourself 1 or 2 years of solid use of the operating system? Install, uninstall, break, fix, reinstall, configure. You can do this in a VM first and then maybe on real hardware. You don't go from n00b to developer in one day. -- Ottavio Caruso _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  mailing 
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