Welcome to the [http://kernelnewbies.org Kernelnewbies] Wiki. Here you can add your questions, explanations, stories, projects and other useful information about hacking, debugging, configuring and using the kernel.
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Topics
KernelHacking -- how to start kernel hacking
FoundBug -- how to identify and track down bugs
KernelProjects -- projects in the kernel
KernelSafari -- learning about the wilderness which is the Linux kernel
KernelGlossary -- please add your explanations here!
ProgrammingLinks -- links to programming language information
PersonalPages -- pages from wiki users
RegionalNewbies -- local/national/regional kernelnewbies
KernelMentors -- how to have help getting already written code into the Linux kernel
- ... (add your stuff here if it doesn't fit in one of the topics above)
Related wikis and links
[http://kernelnewbies.org/ kernelnewbies.org] the main kernelnewbies website
[http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net/wiki/?KernelWiki KernelWiki] (appears to be broken at the moment)
[http://wiki.linux-mm.org/ Linux-MM wiki] specialised memory management wiki
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