On 5/16/06, Jimmy Huang <jimmyhua73 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks for the general pointers. I've generally hacked > up other people's code for my own personal use. > Participating in an Open Source environment is pretty > new to me. > > As I have a great idea for a "newbie" server... BUT I > have no access to a Linux Box or other unix box out on > the internet... So, this is my only recourse, is to > add it into the Vanilla source (and hope someone else > uses it for a newbie server). If you don't have access to a linux machine, then this is probably a good idea: 1) Get vmware server from http://vmware.com/ 2) Get a linux image from http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ I recommend debian-31r0a-i386-netinst-kernel2.6.zip, 115M 3) apt-get install a bunch of things (I don't remember what, probably things like libgdbm-dev) 4) Install Vanilla. 5) Playtest your changes. 6) Share the image with others. :) -- Stephen Thorne "Give me enough bandwidth and a place to sit and I will move the world." --Jonathan Lange