Fwd: Six month major project on kernel

[Gaurav Saxena]

Hello Jonathan, Thank you very much for your reply.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:13:51 +0530
> Gaurav Saxena <grvsaxena419@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on
> > linux kernel . I would be having a duration of six months to work on
> > the project. Could you please suggest me some good project ideas that
> > would be helpful to me as well as linux. I am interested in parallel
> > computing, data structures , operating system. I am well versed in
> > C/C++. I think there might be projects which need to be done, I would
> > like to work on them.
>
> Your interest in working on the kernel is welcome, but, sadly, you are
> unlikely to get much help with this particular approach.  Kernel
> developers tend to be busy, they have little time to spend hand-holding
> well-meaning students with vague ideas of doing a kernel project.
> Experience shows that much better results happen when developers join our
> community with a specific project that they are interested in working on.
>
> My advice to you would be to spend some time studying the working of the
> kernel, perhaps fixing a few bugs while you are at it.  Eventually you
> will come across something that does not work as well as you think it
> should; at that point, perhaps, you will be able to conceive of a specific
> project to make things better.  Come back with specific ideas - and,
> preferably, some code - and you will have a much better chance of getting
> some attention from the development community.

Oh I see, yeah I understand, Thanks a lot again for guiding me, I will
see for bugs this would really help me in increasing my understanding
of kernel, and of course try to come up with a good idea myself.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>



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Thanks and Regards ,
Gaurav



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Thanks and Regards ,
Gaurav
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