From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:52:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] Understanding earlier version of linux kernel Message-Id: <20070522125254.GD18519@parisc-linux.org> List-Id: References: <41f748550705220155m67c8b17re0a572abcf411373@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41f748550705220155m67c8b17re0a572abcf411373@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:55:11PM +0700, Iwan BK wrote: > Hello all. > I'm a newbie kernel hacker. My friend said that understanding earlier > version of linux kernel ( v0.X) is a good practice to become a kernel > hacker. > Is it true ? Is there any project that do this. Sounds like you want http://kernelnewbies.org/. Your friend is wrong, btw. While earlier versions of Linux were less complex in some ways, they were more complex in others, and don't support all the functionality that more recent versions support. _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors