Re: Where to start C-programming open source?

[Jon Mayo <jon.mayo@gmail.com>]

Find a project that you use every day that you think you could improve
or has a bug that you are able to reproduce. Go to the project and fix
one of their bugs, submit the patch, and you're in.

If you want to do OS dev, there are lots of sites for that. osdev.org
has lots of tutorials and guides on their wiki. Writing an OS from
scratch can be a good way to improve your skills, but it takes a lot
of work before the OS is substantial enough to be of any use. Most OS
projects are learning projects that are abandoned after the creator
has gotten what they wanted out of the experience.

Finding an OS project and seeing if you can get it up and running and
maybe add to it can be rewarding. Linux of course is one that can be
fun. But there are others like Prex (a real-time OS), xv6 (a minimal
unix kernel for learning & experimentation, very good docs), Fuzix (a
unix-like for really low-end CPUs without MMUs, including 8-bit
systems), and there are hundreds of other possibilities.

For me, writing something for xv6, like a VGA driver, or porting xv6
to Raspberry Pi seems like fun.

For totally gonzo sort of projects, something more challenging would
be to port Fuzix to a new piece of hardware. Dragonball68K(Palm IIIx/V
& Alphasmart Dana) could use some love for example.

(ps - sorry, I accidentally sent this out in HTML mode, resending a
cleaned up version for plaintext)

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Carsten Peter Rasmussen
<mail@cprasmussen.dk> wrote:
> Hi C-programming list
>
> It's awfully quite here, I wonder if I'm even in the right place!?
> I have been a programmer for many year, and dabbled in many different
> development areas, but I really want for participate in a open source
> project by developing C. I have looked over a number of mailing lists like
> Git, Samba, Vim etc. And every time I think "Wow, these guys are really
> smart, this is out of my league" - so how does one start?
>
> Any comments and advice on getting started in OS with C is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> - Carsten
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-- Jon