What is the best distro for starting linux kernel development?

Geyslan Gregório Bem geyslan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 07:41:56 EST 2013


2013/11/13 Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar <chambilkethakur at gmail.com>:
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Mandeep Sandhu
> <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
>> <chambilkethakur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox use Fedora(or other redhat distros), though
>> > Alan
>> > talked about shifting to other distros due to his annoyance with Fedora.
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>> Nit -picking here...but Linus does not Fedora...if anything, I think,
>> he _hates_ Fedora and Gnome (3)! :)
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>> A more informed answer on Quora:
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>> http://www.quora.com/Linux/What-Linux-distribution-does-Linus-Torvalds-use-on-his-MacBook-Air
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> It talks about what he uses on __Mac book air__,
> Here is another link which says he used Fedora 9 on a __most__ of his
> computers
> http://news.oreilly.com/2008/07/linux-torvalds-on-linux-distri.html
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>> I saw a G+ post of his where he was very pleased with the Samsung
>> pixel running ChromeOS. Though that was not for development purpose
>> (only reading stuff).
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> I read that whole discussion, he never said that he __hates__  Fedora, he
> was expressing his dismay that the kernel was not updated with proper
> wireless driver which are required for him to get the driver because that
> machine(not sure which one) doesn't have an ethernet port.
> But he does hate Gnome. Also from his post, he seems to be using Fedora more
> often than any other distros.
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>> -mandeep
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Why not ask him? :-D

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