From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751210AbZH0GS7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:18:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751106AbZH0GS6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:18:58 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:40974 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751042AbZH0GS6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:18:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ucYQ+3gL5BGLntUrTqjq1b7EHZ4BqOY4+6buwjTJXrFmcmEND7GrvYvSGKwPQXfHaW dWDKOvypiyZ3f4Esm/4MNiV+I0PSW6FWlvFgS2csNwgnvS/6/7TSWhvj6H6Yh4lRrCXA pFAKtHGIKcvZQPUqHefSJw9uljFKfPKl8ceXQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:48:59 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Student Project Idea From: Satyam Shekhar To: James Morris Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks for replying. > As a student it helps if you come out of the inhibition that only > kernel level projects are great and other disciplines don't worth a > dime for a fresh grad. Kernel development is generally meant for > experienced developers who already did non-kernel, system level > development for some time. Thats not why I want to get into kernel projects. I like the area and will enjoy my project if it is something I like. I have worked on developing PINTOS as a part of my course work, which I thoroughly enjoyed. > Get involved in the Kernel Newbies project: > http://kernelnewbies.org/ > > There's more than enough information and support there to help you get > started and find something interesting to work on. > > Kernel hacking is where it's at, don't listen to naysayers :-) > > Here's some slides from a talk I gave on this topic at foss.in a couple of > years back: > > http://namei.org/presentations/fossin2007-kernel-hacking.pdf Thanks. :)