From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chambilkethakur@gmail.com (Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:10:15 +0000 Subject: New member In-Reply-To: References: <100098.1422210715@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:38 PM, srinivas bakki wrote: > Valdis, > You got to be polite with people.Not everybody is as smart as > you, but they would like to contribute. Just keep in in mind that there's > no future for linux without such people. You cannot keep bullying everybody > like this. > Talking about polite, you are Top posting, how rude is that? > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Surendra Patil > wrote: > >> Hi Kaur, >> >> I would recommend you take a look at this videos by Greg - >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4. >> He has explained how to get started to contribute Linux Kernel. >> >> Good Luck !!! >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:31 AM, wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:07:44 -0800, Satwantjit Kaur said: >>> > I am a final year B.Tech (CSE) student from NIT Jalandhar. I like >>> > programming and I know C and C++ programming languages. I have worked >>> > on IPC and socket programming in C/C++. I wish to take up a project in >>> > Linux Kernel development and contribute to it. Can somebody guide me >>> > further? >>> >>> I'll be blunt. Unless you *already* have an interest or desire in a >>> particular >>> part of the kernel (for instance, filesystems, or networking, or memory >>> management, etc), you probably aren't a good fit for actually >>> contributing to >>> the Linux kernel. You might be able to hack up some code that will >>> satisfy a >>> professor for a project, but actual contributions are usually held to a >>> higher >>> standard. >>> >>> Consider the difference between "I'd like to write a book, but have no >>> idea >>> what to write about, can somebody suggest whether to write fantasy, or a >>> romance, or non-fiction about sports, or something", and "I'm thinking >>> about a >>> story about the adventures of a Roman centurion fighting the Gauls, but >>> need >>> help making it historically accurate". >>> >>> Pretty much everybody will agree that the first book is doomed, because >>> the author obviously isn't connected that much to their project. The >>> second? >>> That has a *much* higher chance of producing a good story, simply because >>> the author has a vision for the project that they can stick to. >>> >>> And that affects mentoring - nobody who knows anything about writing >>> fantasy >>> novels will be interested in helping somebody who hasn't even decided if >>> they want to write about fantasy or scuba diving. Somebody who knows they >>> want to write about a Roman centurion fighting the Gauls? At that point, >>> it's worth the 5 minutes for a Roman history expert to give suggestions >>> and references to the way things were then.... >>> >>> And the Linux kernel is the same way. >>> >>> Now, if you have a professor that's *insisting* on a Linux kernel >>> project, >>> that's an entirely different problem. ;) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Kernelnewbies mailing list >>> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org >>> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------ >> Best, >> Surendra Patil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > -- Thank you Warm Regards Anuz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20150125/a7e9e196/attachment.html