If you think you can be a
kernel hacker, openSUSE can help you find out.
Even if you??™re a little fearful of the idea of messing with the
kernel, you should read the first two sections of this chapter
to know a little bit about the history of the kernel and how it
works. Someday, you just might pick up a brand-new piece of
hardware for which a Linux driver was added to the kernel
snapshot last week. Go all the way through this chapter, and
you??™ll know exactly what to do to get it working.
Linus??™s Baby: The Linux Kernel
At the bottom of most Linux-related web pages and at the front of this (and just about
every other) Linux book, there is a notice: Linux is a registered trademark of Linus
Torvalds. In most cases in the larger world, posting such a notice is just another silly
requirement imposed by lawyers on publishers and web designers. For this book, at least,
it is but one way to acknowledge the debt we all owe to the Finnish programmer who
started it all.
While the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-based operating system had been working
on a functioning kernel for years, Torvalds wanted to do his computer science homework
at home.
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