Re: Getting started with Hurd development.

[Marco Gerards]

donnie@darthik.com writes:

Hi,

> I am senior undergraduate in Computer Science
> of Engineering, and I am very interested in
> the development of operating systems.  I would like
> to become involved with the Hurd project, but
> I have little experience with OS development.

Cool!  All help is welcome!

> I looked at the Development page on your website,
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/devel.html, but
> I am in need of maybe more direction of a "good place to start."
> Of course, I know I need to install Hurd and become familiar
> with it first!  :-)

Do you know the Hurd hackers guide?  That is how I started.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html

And of course you can read sourcecode, etc.  Can you tell us what you
are interested in?  Personally I like to focus on just one thing at
the time, for example filesystems or the console.

Another source of information is IRC.  There are a lot of people who
can help you and some that might scare you away.  But you can have a
look on #hug and #hurd on irc.freenode.net for general Hurd discussion
and on #hurd-l4 if you are interested in the L4 Hurd development.

> I have recently purchased Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second
> Edition) by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull, and
> I was wondering if there are any other books/articles that
> you would recommend, either in print or online.

Read as much as you can.  Depending on the kind of stuff you want to
look at, it can differ what you should read.  Tanenbaum is a nice read
I think. :)

--
Marco