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[Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:38 PM, srinivas bakki <srinivas.bakki at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Valdis,
>            You got to be polite with people.Not everybody is as smart as
> you, but they would like to contribute. Just keep in in mind that there's
> no future for linux without such people. You cannot keep bullying everybody
> like this.
>

Talking about polite, you are Top posting, how rude is that?


>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Surendra Patil <surendra.tux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kaur,
>>
>> I would recommend you take a look at this videos by Greg -
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4.
>> He has explained how to get started to contribute Linux Kernel.
>>
>> Good Luck !!!
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:31 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:07:44 -0800, Satwantjit Kaur said:
>>> >     I am a final year B.Tech (CSE) student from NIT Jalandhar. I like
>>> > programming and I know C and C++ programming languages. I have worked
>>> > on IPC and socket programming in C/C++. I wish to take up a project in
>>> > Linux Kernel development and contribute to it. Can somebody guide me
>>> > further?
>>>
>>> I'll be blunt. Unless you *already* have an interest or desire in a
>>> particular
>>> part of the kernel (for instance, filesystems, or networking, or memory
>>> management, etc), you probably aren't a good fit for actually
>>> contributing to
>>> the Linux kernel.  You might be able to hack up some code that will
>>> satisfy a
>>> professor for a project, but actual contributions are usually held to a
>>> higher
>>> standard.
>>>
>>> Consider the difference between "I'd like to write a book, but have no
>>> idea
>>> what to write about, can somebody suggest whether to write fantasy, or a
>>> romance, or non-fiction about sports, or something", and "I'm thinking
>>> about a
>>> story about the adventures of a Roman centurion fighting the Gauls, but
>>> need
>>> help making it historically accurate".
>>>
>>> Pretty much everybody will agree that the first book is doomed, because
>>> the author obviously isn't connected that much to their project.  The
>>> second?
>>> That has a *much* higher chance of producing a good story, simply because
>>> the author has a vision for the project that they can stick to.
>>>
>>> And that affects mentoring - nobody who knows anything about writing
>>> fantasy
>>> novels will be interested in helping somebody who hasn't even decided if
>>> they want to write about fantasy or scuba diving. Somebody who knows they
>>> want to write about a Roman centurion fighting the Gauls? At that point,
>>> it's worth the 5 minutes for a Roman history expert to give suggestions
>>> and references to the way things were then....
>>>
>>> And the Linux kernel is the same way.
>>>
>>> Now, if you have a professor that's *insisting* on a Linux kernel
>>> project,
>>> that's an entirely different problem. ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Surendra Patil
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Thank you
Warm Regards
Anuz
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