On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:56 AM, prasannatsmkumar < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Ohh you are from CSE background in that case, I am from EEE and I always >> wondered how OS worked. >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, prasannatsmkumar < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Prasannat >>>> >>>> What do you work as ? Did you attend some classes to understand minix ? >>>> >>> >>> I work as a software engineer. I did not attend any class to understand >>> minix. During my B.E I had a course on Operating Systems and nothing pretty >>> much after that. The code I have contributed is simple and for doing >>> something similar not much understanding of Minix or Operating systems is >>> necessary. If someone is capable of understanding C code then he/she can >>> start working and write code for minix I could say. >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:46 PM, prasannatsmkumar < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi All, >>>>> >>>>> I have made a small contribution to Minix (an open source operating >>>>> system >>>>> with BSD license). Most of the people would have known about this. I am >>>>> putting this here cause seeing this people may get encouraged to >>>>> contribute >>>>> to open source projects. Please see the discussion at >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/minix3/-/Olq83HlEZGgJ. Contributing >>>>> back to >>>>> community is really helpful in many ways - improves the coding skills, >>>>> understanding the software development work flow, learning SCM, >>>>> learning to >>>>> work with community, etc. >>>>> >>>>> Commit is available at >>>>> >>>>> http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix.git;a=commit;h=8de781761f7cf607dacc7d2606f755d20d6a9245 >>>>> . >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> PrasannaKumar >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> ILUGC Mailing List: >>>>> http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Balasubramaniam Natarajan >>>> www.etutorshop.com/moodle/ >>>> >>>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> PrasannaKumar >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Balasubramaniam Natarajan >> www.etutorshop.com/moodle/ >> >> > Nope. I am not from CSE background. I forgot to mention that. I did my > bachelors in ECE but I ended up working in software field. > > Regards, > PrasannaKumar > Hi Bala, Please add ilugc to the cc list or use "reply to all". Your questions will be helpful for others. You can grab some OS book and start reading it to get the idea. You can even start from wikipedia to get a glimpse of OS and can figure out if OS interests you. Thanks and Regards, PrasannaKumar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
