From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
To: Russ Meyerriecks <datachomper@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Student Project Ideas
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:44:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070329204450.GA13541@Ahmed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc8960410703290304t7ff61205u7110ac33c671fb4d@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:04:08AM -0500, Russ Meyerriecks wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been hacking on the Linux kernel all semester for my OS:
> Internals class. We are given full autonomy in picking our final
> programming project and I would love for mine to be /useful/ for the
> Linux kernel and not just a theoretical exorcise. If anybody has any
> bug fixes or features maybe they never got around to, and would be
> suitable for this situation, I would love to hear about them.
>
I'm a college student too and I wished a wish like that in the past. After
watching the development process for a while, I realized that somehow
a college final project won't fit with the linux kernel project.
Everything here is done by _evolution_ not a revolution, you'll even see the
highest matured programmers in this project send little patches day by day.
And the problem that you can't meet your PH.D and tell him/her: hey, I have
a patch or two, they simply don't understand that ;).
Second, I think it's very hard to make a considerable project in the kernel
without doing some little patches here and there at first. Google for kernel
newbies and kernel janitors.
Regards,
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-29 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-29 10:04 Student Project Ideas Russ Meyerriecks
2007-03-29 10:15 ` Helge Hafting
2007-03-29 10:32 ` Cong WANG
2007-03-29 20:59 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-03-29 22:54 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-03-30 0:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-30 0:25 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-03-29 16:35 ` Stefan Richter
2007-03-29 20:44 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2007-03-30 5:17 ` Lee Revell
2007-03-30 15:34 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-30 16:15 ` Gerb Stralko
2007-04-02 13:01 ` Pavel Machek
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