Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 May 2009 09:01:12 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: What Distro is best for Starting Kernel Dev? |
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On Sat, 23 May 2009 11:44:11 -0400 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> John Walsh wrote: > > What Distro is best for Starting Kernel Dev? > > If you want to learn more about the system than > anybody should ever need to know, you can stick > with a bleeding-edge development distro like > Fedora Rawhide, Mandriva Cooker or Debian Unstable.
I do the bulk of my work on such distributions, but if you're really wanting to get started with *kernel* development, there is one thing to be aware of: development distributions can be an independent source of instability/weirdness in a system. If you're at an early stage with the kernel, you may want to minimize the number of variables which can be changing at once. So it might make more sense to base your work on a distribution which is not changing underneath you.
jon
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