What is the best distro for starting linux kernel development?

[abrahanfer at gmail.com]

I suggest you Archlinux[1], highly updated and customizable. But it's not
broke by updates day in day out.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/


2013/11/13 Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Naman Shekhar Mishra
> <mishra123.naman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi mentors,
> > I have been studying the Linux kernel for some time and now I am going to
> > try and get my hands hands dirty with the kernel. Can you please tell me
> > what is the best distro for this? I have experience with Gentoo and LFS
> but
>
> If you're comfortable with Gentoo then I guess you're ready for kernel
> development! :P (kidding!) The reason I say this is because I heard
> (I've not used Gentoo personally) that you get to build/install all
> packages from scratch before using them! :)
>
> You can also have a look at the popular ones like Ubuntu, Fedora or
> Mint (dunno much about Mint though). They come with good package
> managers and that makes installing stuff easy. So whether you want to
> install eg binutils or a new browser or even the kernel sources, the
> package manager will help you get all the stuff + it's dependencies.
>
> HTH,
> -mandeep
>
>
> > would they be good if I just want to get involved in  kernel development
> > (and not the maintenance overhead that comes with these distros)? It
> would
> > be useful for me if you could tell me the distro you use.
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Naman
> >
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