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Tuesday, October 14 • 12:15pm - 1:05pm
Kernel Hacking for Hobbyists - An Outsider's Perspective - Manuel Schölling

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The roots of Linux lie in the community of hobbyist programmers and technical enthusiast. Nowadays still about 15-20% of accepted patches are developed "in mother's basement" by programmers without affiliation.
This talk presents how to start kernel development as a hobbyist based on the view of an outsider. It covers ways of finding a task as starting point for your first patch and how to submit it. Dos and don'ts of kernel development are discussed and, based on the author's experiences, patches and reactions from the developer community are exemplified to overcome the newcomers' "inhibition threshold".
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Manuel Schoelling

Manuel Schölling is a physicist working in the field of image and data analysis at a German bioresearch center. He came across Linux 10 years ago and since then, he is developing small free, open source software projects in various programming languages. Manuel joined the developer... Read More →

Tuesday October 14, 2014 12:15pm - 1:05pm CEST
Room 01
  Developer, Experience Level - Beginner |   LinuxCon, Experience Level - Beginner

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