Suggested environments for kernel development

[Nicholas Krause]

On May 3, 2015 1:44:28 PM EDT, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0100, Lewis Clark wrote:
>> I would really like to know how you guys do your kernel development. 
>> What distro do you use and whats the process?
>> 
>> I’m very comfortable with debian, but i’ve heard it’s not the easiest
>> distro to build kernels for as you need to build to a .deb and apply
>> it that way.
>
>Not at all, any community-based distro is usually good for kernel
>development, pick one you feel comfortable with and use it.
>
>good luck,
>
>greg k-h
>
>
Greg is right here however since kernel development is generally bleeding edge I generally recommend Arch as the packages are pulled from upstream including gcc.  Running the latest c library and tool chains is a high plus in kernel development in my opinion. 
Nick 
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