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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-soc@l.g.o
Cc: Chuhao Zeng <chuhao.zeng@×××××××××××××.ca>
Subject: [gentoo-soc] Re: [gentoo-user] GSoC 2019 Self Intro
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:00:27
Message-Id: 20190305000018.3b24e553a35e6e106fdd421f@gentoo.org
1 Hi!
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3 On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 20:17:27 +0000 Chuhao Zeng wrote:
4 > Dear All
5 >
6 > Hi, I am a third year Computer Science student at University of Toronto and I have two and half year programming experience in C.
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8 You wrote to the *wrong* list. Please subscribe and write to the
9 gentoo-soc mail list. It is just by chance I spotted your e-mail on
10 the gentoo-users mail list.
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12 Have you read our GSoC wiki? It clearly states what communication
13 channels should be used:
14 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019
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16 > I am interested in the idea "Atom Gentoo" of building a stateless OS based with Gentoo. Based on the inspirations, I think this idea will mainly focus on building or updating an existing file system, please correct me if I am wrong. Are we supposed to improve the performance of the existing one or do we need to implement file system with a better design ? I will appreciate any suggestions and advices.
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18 Where you have found this idea? We don't have it this year, but we
19 had it a couple of years ago. Please see current ideas:
20 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Ideas
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22 Or propose one of your own.
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24 > I had previous experience in programming Linux kernel like building filesystem based on ext2 which supports storing and deleting and restoring files and directories, managing virtual memory and playing around with system calls using C.
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26 Is this code available somewhere, e.g. on GitHub?
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28 Best regards,
29 Andrew Savchenko