From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39BD4563.A9EFD09B@student.ethz.ch> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:49:39 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Todd Lipcon CC: "Kevin B. Hendricks" , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Roles for distributions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Todd Lipcon wrote: > Anyway- I am a fairly decent C, C++, and Java programmer. I'd love to be > able to contribute to the Linux/PPC effort, however I don't even know > where to start. Most of the projects that are large enough to actually > need patches to run correctly on PPC are so large that they are inherently > intimidating to one not familiar with the source. Don't let yourself be scared off by the size of something. In every project no matter how big (provided that they were designed sensibly at least to some degree ;), there are small, self-contained problems which can be solved rather easy and quickly. I think it's better to pick something which doesn't work and you would like it to, then start digging into it instead of looking for 'the right one which needs help the most' where you aren't in it with your heart and soul. :) Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/