El vie, 20-10-2006 a las 23:10 -0400, Nick Holland escribis: > Given the choices you have right now, I'd probably go with 3.9 now, keep > the system as minimal as possible, then upgrade to 4.0 after it is > released...that is, if your hardware is fully supported. It's pretty > painless to do, and it is good to get in the habit of doing it before > the system is relied upon continually.
Well, now it is installed and in 3.9-stable (from cvs :). It has been my first install 'not a release' that I did, and has been as a dream, everything works perfectly. Very good work, developers of openbsd! > If your hardware isn't sufficiently supported by 4.0, you have a bit of > a problem. If you go with a snapshot, you are stuck to -current until > 4.1 comes out (or stuck reloading and rebuilding from scratch on 4.0 > later). That's far from the end of the world, but it might be more > exciting than you are planning on. > > Me? My CDs arrived Monday. Order early, order often! :) (no, being on > the team doesn't get me CDs any earlier). jajaja... perhaps when the month finishes, if something of money exceeds to me (difficult thing), can order mine, and who knows... more stuff :) > "howto"s for writing a driver sounds like it is a mindless formula; drop > in some manuals, a semi-warm body, turn a crank, and out pops a driver. > I don't think I'd ever short-change the OpenBSD driver writers like > that, it is not a formulaic process at all. Sure, I can imagine it, I will begin by read /usr/src/sys and some man pages ;) > As for tasks...do something that needs to be done. One good starting > place is: > http://www.openbsd.org/want.html > Get hardware developers want/need in their hands, and magic happens. > Note the part about "hardware developers want/need"... dumping junk on > 'em, or dumping hardware where the issue is code doesn't help. I > suspect plenty of developers have multi-proc SPARC machines...the issue > there is no one is writing the code, not the lack of hardware. Again, > this is not a formulaic task, lots of hard and original work needs to be > done. > > Which isn't to say that some people don't LIKE old junk...but you could > give me lots more SMP sparc machines, and OpenBSD/sparc SMP support > won't be a day closer. It gives me shame to say it, but I don't want to die of hunger or that the bank clears my the house :S The money isn't my strongpoint, and I just have hardware of type i386 that people would throw. I'm watching the page, to see if there is something that can obtain at work, where i can obtain better hardware. > Otherwise...just find something you don't like and fix/improve it. > Understand that the vast majority of "improvements" people come up with > aren't accepted as part of the base system, but absolute none of "just > talk" is ever accepted, and you will probably learn something in doing > the work...and learn more if it is rejected. :) For example, i would like to start working at the webpage, the translation to spanish has been taked off, now i'm reading all the doc that I can, so it could be a good point to make the two things (learn and colaborate). As always, everything what I need, is perfectly documented: http://www.openbsd.org/translation-explained.html Of course, now that I have the laptop 'free of work', i'm going to prove -current. Also, who knows if I start to do a small package (security related) port, instead of a complicated kernel module. > Nick. Greetings Inigo
