Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?
在 2013年8月27日星期二UTC+8下午8时40分02秒，berenge...@neutralite.org写道：
> Le 25.08.2013 05:50, guojzzz a écrit :
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> > 在 2013年8月25日星期日UTC+8上午11时20分01秒，Zenaan Harkness写道：
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> >> On Aug 24, 2013 7:40 PM, "guojzzz" <rush.guo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > Recently I have a interest in Linux Kernel, but I don't think my C
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> >> > programming skill is able to handle it, I'm just going to read the
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> >> > So any of you have ever involved in the dev of Linux Kernel? I've
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> >> > kernelnewbies.org, it's a great website.
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> >> 1) I think kernelnewbies has some suggestions. Been a while since I
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> >> 2) I recommend learning git to clone the kernel repo so you have a
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> >> local copy. That should be more enjoyable experience.
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> > Ah ha, why a local repo makes better experience, usually I'd like to
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> > read code on Github.
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> Replying to that question is easy:
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> 1) You can not make any change on github.
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> 2) Github is JS-bloated, and therefore not as fast as your desktop's
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> 3) You can not debug stuff on github.
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> And probably a lot more reasons. But, in short, you can not learn how
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> to hack a program without playing with it's source. Reading is good, but
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> almost useless against practice.
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I believe what you said. As people know, Linux Kernel is complex and complicated, it's hard to read, especially for newbies like me.
And I don't think I'm going to debug codes or hack it, I even am not capable of doing so. I can play with Python, Common Lisp and Scheme code, as for C... Not now I think.
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