Messages in this thread | | | From | DanKegel@aol ... | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 01:24:33 EST | Subject | (no subject) |
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Douglas F.Elznic <dfelznic@syr.edu> asks: > I am not very good at coding at all. Is thier anyway that I could help > contribute to the kernel other than supplying code and testing new kernels? > Helping with docs? Finding reference material? I have no idea what could be > done so please let me know if there is anything I could do...
At this point, there's not much to do besides program and find bugs; the documentation that needs writing has to be written by a programmer.
One thing you could do is, um, test new kernels. For instance, you could install Red Hat 6.1, then download the latest 2.3 kernel, build it using the recommended compiler (is gcc 2.95 allowed yet?), then run your favorite apps on it. If you're afraid to run normal apps on it, you could run crashme on it. Crashme will search for crash bugs. You can download it at http://ring.iwate-pu.ac.jp/pub/linux/debian/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/ devel/crashme_2.4.orig.tar.gz or http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub3/linux/Sparc/crashme/crashme-2.4-shar.gz
Forward the first crash bug you find to this list, and someone will try to repeat and fix it.
- Dan
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