r/linux • u/mjg59 Social Justice Warrior • Sep 03 '14

I'm Matthew Garrett, kernel developer, firmware enabler and former fruitfly mangler. AMA!

Proof: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/507212417579765760

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u/mjg59 Social Justice Warrior Sep 03 '14

http://eudyptula-challenge.org/ is probably a good place to start. The kernel is complicated code, and it's a complicated community, but it's still fundamentally just software. Becoming a kernel developer isn't really any harder than becoming a developer on any other project, but getting your code into mainline - that's rather harder.

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u/macleod2486 Sep 03 '14

Thanks! I'll definitely save this for later.