Victor Gabriel victorgabrielbs

Getting started with Linux kernel development

Prerequisites

The Linux kernel is written in C, so you should have at least a basic understanding of C before diving into kernel work. You don't need expert level C knowledge, since you can always pick some things up underway, but it certainly helps to know the language and to have written some userspace C programs already.

It will also help to be a Linux user. If you have never used Linux before, it's probably a good idea to download a distro and get comfortable with it before you start doing kernel work.

Lastly, knowing git is not actually required, but can really help you (since you can dig through changelogs and search for information you'll need). At a minimum you should probably be able to clone the git repository to a local directory.

⚠️ Note!

With VSCode version 1.94, the APC extension broke and there is no fix yet.

So, for those having issues with APC after the VSCode update, I recommend downloading the previous version of VSCode for now (https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_93) and setting updates to manual by adding this to the editor's configuration:

"update.mode": "manual",

KDE 1 on Arch Linux

This is a short guide on how to install KDE 1 on Arch Linux.

Install qt1-git, kde1-kdelibs-git & kde1-kdebase-git from the AUR. Extra applications are avaiable in kde1-kdenetwork-git, kde1-kdetoys-git, kde1-kdegames-git and kde1-kdeutils-git. You also have to have xorg-server & xorg-xinit installed. I have not tested KDE1 with a login manager (like sddm) so I can't help you with that.

Edit ~/.xinitrc and add the following lines

export PATH=/opt/kde1/bin:$PATH

npm rank

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Top 1,000 most depended-upon packages
Top 1,000 packages with largest number of dependencies
Top 1,000 packages with highest PageRank score

	# Maintainer: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <[email protected]>

	pkgbase=linux
	pkgver=5.12.9.arch1
	pkgrel=1
	pkgdesc='Linux'
	_srctag=v${pkgver%.}-${pkgver##.}
	url="https://git.archlinux.org/linux.git/log/?h=$_srctag"
	arch=(x86_64)
	license=(GPL2)

	" Must come first because it changes other options
	set nocompatible

	" [vim-plug] Load plugins
	call plug#begin()
	Plug 'dracula/vim', { 'as': 'dracula' }
	Plug 'junegunn/vim-easy-align'
	Plug 'pangloss/vim-javascript'
	Plug 'mxw/vim-jsx'
	Plug 'tpope/vim-bundler'

	# /etc/profile.d/best_bash_history.sh
	# Save 5,000 lines of history in memory
	HISTSIZE=10000
	# Save 2,000,000 lines of history to disk (will have to grep ~/.bash_history for full listing)
	HISTFILESIZE=2000000
	# Append to history instead of overwrite
	shopt -s histappend
	# Ignore redundant or space commands
	HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
	# Ignore more