What is the best distro for starting linux kernel development?

Geyslan Gregório Bem geyslan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 06:16:43 EST 2013


2013/11/13 abrahanfer at gmail.com <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
>>

Hi,

I have not tried gentoo yet. But I think that is a great distro for a
deep learning.
Nowadays I'm using arch and it is working very well to me.

>>
>> > 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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