Hi,

Bryan: I didn't know that, thanks :)

Ugo: If you (or another of the major developers) would be willing to 
pre-roll a "m0n0 Development Environment", I'd certainly look into using 
it. I currently mostly use WinXP on the desktop but I have Linux 
machines too. At present, the barrier to me (and, I suspect, quite a few 
others) is simply that we can't roll our own images, so being able to 
get hold of and fiddle with the source is largely useless.

Some kind of simple guide on the m0n0 site on how we'd go about 
producing m0n0wall images etc would be great. I've never used VMWare but 
I'm definitely agreeable to giving it a go. If someone would be kind 
enough to put together the necessary documentation/pre-rolled VMWare 
dev. environment, I'm sure m0n0 would see many more contributions from 
people like myself, who simply aren't BSD experts.

Regarding the survey, it was noted that a lot of people were willing to 
contribute code but hadn't yet done so. For my own part, I fall into 
that group because I know PHP and would like to be able to help there, 
but the BSD issue is a big barrier to my involvement.

Chris Taylor

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>> Bryan K. Brayton wrote:
>>
>> You know, VMware just released the VMware Player Beta for free (as in
>> beer).  The player lets anyone use a preconfigured VMware or even MS
>> Virtual PC virtual machine and it runs on Windows or Linux.
>>
>> The player will not let you create your own VM; however, maybe Manuel or
>> one of the other contributors has a full copy of VMware or Virtual PC
>> and would be willing to set up a dev environment on a VM and make the VM
>> available for download.
>>
>> This would make a nice, easy, preconfigured dev environment for anyone
>> to just download and start using.  You'd still have to learn a bit of
>> BSD (which in my opinion was much easier than picking up linux), but
>> hey, software can't do everything for us...yet!
>>
>> Just a thought.
>> -Bryan
> 
> I do have a licence at work.  Maybe I could help?
>