I have heard of everything being well documented in man pages in the BSD world. I am pleasantly surprised.
Thanks for the tip. It seems to be a fairly good point to start with drivers. I do have a problem with my laptop's screen brightness cannot be dimmed. May be a good spot to start. On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Justin Sherrill <jus...@shiningsilence.com> wrote: > The thing I tell people most often, for this sort of question, is: > work on a project that you find personally useful. A driver for > hardware you have, a particular tool you already use, etc. Otherwise, > it's likely you will give up when frustrated because you don't see any > benefit from the work. > > More specifically, the 'development' man page may be useful. > > https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=development§ion=ANY > > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Satyajit Ranjeev <s...@ranjeev.in> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Like many I have been programming for a long time and never got my >> hands onto kernel development. I have been developing web applications >> and some times implementations of protocols. I have tried developing >> toy file systems and persistent queues most of which are half >> completed. I have had an itch to do some low level programming for a >> very long time. >> >> Being a long time Linux user I was quite disappointed by the forceful >> move to systemd, what annoys me the most is how it is engulfing >> several projects. This led me to try out several of the BSD's. I came >> across DragonFlyBSD as it seemed to have best driver support for my >> laptop. >> >> I was pleasantly surprised by the welcoming note on the home page >> titled "Now Hiring". I started going through your various projects and >> research ideas and found them quite interesting and quite overwhelming >> seeing that there are so many tasks. Is there some place I could >> start? I like file systems, so would HAMMER be a good place to start >> with? Or would it be wise to pick up a tiny bug and try solving it? >> >> I would appreciate any feedback and would love to be a part of this >> community. >> >> Looking to help out, >> >> satran
