On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 08:28:12AM +0000, elo morio wrote: > Are there any existing Documentation, manuals or supplementary > expository books that details out the internals of OpenBSD. Otherwise > what books or materials would be close enough to better aid the newbie > wishing to hack on the systems internals. >
Lots and none. Have you read the entire website? There is a list of recommended books. Do you already speak fluent C? Perl? Download the source code tree. Study it. Whatever other OS you have been using is NOT OpenBSD. You might find porting in something useful to learning about what OpenBSD is and is not. Don't make feature requests. Do them. Ask if anyone is working on something you would like to help with or need help with. Help TEST, TEST, TEST! Right at this moment in time, testing is the most useful thing you can do. Briefly, things will open up for new source and ports code. Install -current on anything you have and see if anything is broken. It might have to wait to be fixed or be something really critical that has to be known right now. It could also be something known that has been decided is not going to be fixed because it will cause too many other problems. The mailing lists are a bit quiet right now because the developers are furiously pulling everything together for 6.3 release. You'll see once that work is done tons of new/updated ports emails, etc. And yes, submitting your -current dmesg and saying that everything is working is helpful. It's very helpful to know what is broken but also neccesary to know what isn't broken to help out future/immediate work. Speaking of testing, I think I'll go install the latest snapshot right now. The flu, dental surgery and a stomach bug stopped me in my tracks, but gotta go test! Have fun, Chris Bennett
