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10时10分02秒，Jerry Stuckle写道：
> On 8/27/2013 9:49 AM, guojzzz wrote:
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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.
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> > 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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> Guogzzz,
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> I think the kernel is the LAST place you want to go, especially if
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> you're not real familiar with C. As you have found, system kernels are
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> large and complicated. Even people with years of experience in C easily
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> get lost when dumped into system programming. And you can't just look
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> at one small part of a kernel by itself; you have to also be aware of
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> its relationship with the rest of the kernel. Acquiring such a
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> knowledge takes time; good books help (sorry, I don't have any
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> There are many other areas you can help out in, though. There are
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> thousands of projects in Debian, each with their own maintainers. And I
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> think most of those projects would be glad to have another programmer,
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> even if you don't have years of experience.
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> I suggest you look at various projects (smaller in this case *may* be
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> better - easier to understand but less work needs to be done) and find
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> one which sounds interesting to you. Then find the upstream maintainers
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> and ask if they could use another hand. In most cases, I think the
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> answer will be "YES!". :)
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> Jerry
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I know some books of OS, as Linus mentioned in his biography book. The reason why
I choose kernel code is that I think it strict and compact, it's bug-less, it has a code style guide.
But other softwares' codes may not.
As a matter of fact, I've ever thought about starting a project on my own and others may help me,
but I have little experience in C, hence it seems impossible.
You mean find project on Debian website - develop page?
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