Re: what's the state of the kernelnewbies FAQ these days?

[SandeepKsinha <sandeepksinha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert,

It does really makes a lot of sense to rectify such issues.
It really discourages any newbie who starts kernel programming.

Should we copy the linux-kernel folks to have a take on such issues.


On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Robert P. J. Day<rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  i'm pondering adding to one of my linux.com articles one of these
> days some links that would be useful for kernel noobs, but i have no
> idea how useful or up-to date the kernelnewbies.org site is these
> days.  specifically, the FAQ itself doesn't inspire me with
> confidence.  following the very first link:
>
>  http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/KernelCompilation
>
> we read that this applies to version 2.6.0, which is *way* old.  and
> the tar command to extract from a bz2 tarball is just wrong:
>
>  $ tar xivf linux-2.6.0.tar.bz2
>
> no, that "i" should be a "j" for bz2 tarballs.
>
>  to be blunt, i'd like to recommend the best of the best of the
> available links for kernel beginners, but i'm not going to include
> links to material that are out of date or just plain wrong.  sorry to
> sound harsh, but that's the way it is.
>
> rday
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