From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: academia contribution to the kernel
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 14:26:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE532E4.2050407@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE4B8C9.6050207@kthx.be>
On 05/31/2011 05:45 AM, Pierre Vorhagen wrote:
> But I really wonder which type of Master (if any?) would maximize my
> chances of being hired by a company working on kernel development and
> related matters. Surely, a MSc in Computer Engineering would be more
> on-topic than a "traditional" MSc in Computer Science for instance, no?
> What *is* the best way to go about a Master that would be related to
> Linux development as much as possible?
Companies won't care much about your master.
However, if you manage to take your code from a proof of
concept to something production ready and merged in the
Linux kernel, you have just shown the whole world that you
are a kernel developer.
That is the kind of thing that will get you hired.
--
All rights reversed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-31 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-30 23:05 academia contribution to the kernel Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-05-30 23:42 ` Prasad Joshi
2011-05-31 0:39 ` João Eduardo Luís
2011-05-31 1:17 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-05-31 9:45 ` Pierre Vorhagen
2011-05-31 12:55 ` Greg KH
2011-05-31 18:26 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2011-05-31 4:49 ` Greg KH
2011-05-31 6:43 ` bodhimonk at gmail.com
2011-05-31 7:46 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <1497514244-1306824194-cardhu_blackberry.rim.net-copy_sent_folder-265104608-@b15.c2.bise3.blackberry>
2011-05-31 6:45 ` bodhimonk at gmail.com
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2011-05-31 8:09 bodhimonk at gmail.com
2011-05-31 9:44 ` Ronnie Collinson
2011-05-31 12:58 ` Greg KH
2011-05-31 14:30 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-05-31 21:56 ` Greg KH
2011-05-31 22:19 ` Greg Freemyer
2011-05-31 12:58 ` Greg KH
2011-05-31 13:04 bodhimonk at gmail.com
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