Re: Project Suggestions
It would be useful if you could provide more information about your
capabilities and timeframe.
What is your Masters project in? Do you have any systems design
experience? The Hurd is noticably slower than other OSs. What type
of hardware do you have (There is a particularily nasty bug we need
fixed that takes about an hour of solid compiling to reproduce on a
Pentium II/350 with 128MB of RAM.)
Also, I assume that by "1 week or less" you mean 40-60 hours worth of
work. Is this your idea of 1 week? If not, please clarify.
Lastly, where did you look for information first? It would be useful
to post these answers somewhere that people look first. Jim has been
putting together a rewrite of the Hurd web pages on the GNU servers,
but I don't know if people go there first or not.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:56:01AM -0400, Thomas A Langan wrote:
> As for the advice, I'm looking for two suggestions:
>
> 1) I'm looking for a very short (ie, 1 week or less) programming project
> to become acclimated to HURD development so that I can make an informed
> decision as to what part of HURD to pursue for my thesis topic. Any
> suggestions or would it suffice to look for something on the TODO pages
> out there? Are they up to date? I think this question might help a lot
> of people in a similar situation looking for a first coding step.
>
> 2) I'm also looking for suggestions for larger projects to take on
> towards my masters thesis. This may be anything from a porting project
> that might have interesting implications to the implementation of some as
> yet unimplemented part of the system to a rewrite of some underdeveloped
> part of the system. Hopefully this questions will also be helpful to
> people other than me.
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