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From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: ram mohan <madhaviram123@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:39:32PM -0800, ram mohan wrote:
> I am interested to work in the following areas:
> 1. embedded systems
> 2. networking
> 
> I was wondering how can I contribute in embedded
> without actual hardware.

Find something broken and fix it.  A good place to start is the kernel
janitor project.  There is a ton of code that needs to be cleaned up.