First off I wasn't sure which list to send this to: current, hackers or questions; so if this is the wrong destination my apologies.
Anyway, last year, after years of using Linux, I fell in love with the FreeBSD project. Now, I've had the desire offer my time and energy to help development. My problem though is I only have 3 machines where I'm currently living, 2 desktops and a laptop. I have to leave Windows installed on one desktop for compatibility and I'd like to leave the other desktop running 4.x so I have a UNIX computer that I know will always be working. That leaves me with the laptop to play with 5.0 and CURRENT. However, the laptop is a puny Cyrix P180+ (I think it's the MediaGX chip or whatever they were touting a few years back). Doing a make world or building a kernel would probably take me two weeks, not the best environment for development. My question is could I keep and build the CURRENT source tree on the FreeBSD desktop, mount it over NFS to the laptop, and install it over the NFS mount? I know I can do that with 4.x, but I'm wondering if this is really testing CURRENT if I don't build it on the 5.0 kernel. For now I really don't think I'll be able to help much with writing anything too intense; however I noticed in the latest 5.0 release notes that people have been converting Perl scripts to C and I'm more then capable of doing that. And I also think the laptop, even though it is slow would be a usable platform for working on that kind of development. What are your thoughts on this setup; is it worth my time or should I just sit idly by until I can get a desktop system to play with CURRENT. I have a little free time and about 7 years experience programming C in Linux and UNIX (peanuts compared to most people reading this I imagine) but I'd like to help a cause I believe in. Thanks in advance, Ryan -- Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 1019590 AIM/MSN: leadZERO To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
