From: Farid Hajji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: How to get more developers (was: Mailing List traffic and...) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 05:31:25 +0200
> And yes, the docs... Although things start improving now, we still need > a lot more of tutorial-like materials. "Hello worlds" for misc. parts of > the system may be one way to introduce newbies to the internals of Mach > and the Hurd(-libraries). I'm thinking here especially of small dummy > translators, dummy filesystems and other simple user-level programs. The Hurd source tree already has several simple (and yet useful) translators. See the directory "trans". "hello.c" and "hello-mt.c" are quite simple. "null.c" is also easy to understand. Another good example is usermux. If you think they are still difficult, feel free to ask questions to mailing-lists (such as help-hurd). > The docs could also be expanded by links to (or mirrors of) papers about > Mach research, issues of OS-Design (here especially the microkernel vs. > monolithic approaches) and the original CMU- and OFS-1 Mach documentation. > If someone knows about a link of this kind, please mail it to me. I'll > gather all I can and will summarize later. http://hurddocs.sourceforge.net/howto/development.html Okuji
