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Re: Questionnaire
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olafBuddenhagen |
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Re: Questionnaire |
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Wed, 5 Oct 2011 02:15:43 +0200 |
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Hi,
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:44:46PM -0400, Kyle Bayes wrote:
Sorry for the late answer... I'm desperately trying to catch up with the
backlog in my inbox.
> I work as a software programmer and web designer/programmer, writing
> free software for a small company in my hometown.
Nice :-)
> I've been using Debian GNU/Hurd for quite a while now. I also have
> been learning about Hurd for about a year, and I've even wrote some
> basic translators.
That's pretty impressive... I'm surprised you haven't contacted us
before :-) I'm looking forward to your contributions!
> My interests include porting packages and writing documentation
> and working on existing or writing new Hurd servers or libraries.
> Also, I'm willing to work on the standard C library.
You seem to have a pretty good idea already what you want to work on --
so I guess you don't need us to propose any specific tasks to you?...
> I do not have a lot of practice in kernel programming, besides
> writing a couple of Hurd translators, but I did put a lot of time
> reading about kernel development. At my university's library I
> spent hours reading most of the available books on operating
> systems. I studied the Minux source code to understand how
> multi-server kernels work. I also studied Mach's source code as
> well. I read a lot of research that was going on in 2nd generation
> micro-kernels, such as L4. Plus, I'm familiar with the concepts
> of Hurd and Mach.
Again, very impressive :-)
-antrik-
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