⚡ Quick Guide: Linux_Kernel_Newbies - Linux Kernel Newbies

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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: ArchiveBot: The Archive Team Crowdsourced Crawler

ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).

To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.

There is a dashboard running for the archivebot process at http://www.archivebot.com.

ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot.

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20260308183122/https://kernelnewbies.org/

Kernelnewbies is a community of aspiring Linux kernel developers who work to improve their Kernels and more experienced developers willing to share their knowledge.

Kernelnewbies can be found on the MailingList, IRC (irc.oftc.net #kernelnewbies), and this wiki.

Outreachy

Potential Outreachy applicants, please go to the Outreachyfirstpatch.

ChangeLog

A human readable changelog for the Linux kernel can be found on the LinuxChanges page.

Reporting Bugs

If you think you've found a Linux kernel bug, follow the directions on the FoundBug page to report it.

Hacking

So you want to be a Linux kernel developer? Go complete our tutorial for creating your first kernel patch, or read Linux Kernel Hacking.

Do you want to figure out how a certain kernel subsystem works? Go to our subsystems page.

Glossary

Confused by kernel terminology? Look at our KernelGlossary...

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions and answers about kernel development can be found in our FAQ.

Documentation

An effort to organize all the pieces of useful information on the Internet about kernel hacking into a single place can be found at the Documents page.

Please edit our wiki

KernelNewbies is all about sharing knowledge and experience. If you feel inspired or just want to make sure you will remember something you found out, please contribute to this wiki. Thank you.

To prevent wiki spam, only users on this list are allowed to edit the wiki. Any of these users can add new usernames to the list. If you need to be on the list, please ask in #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net or on the mailing list.

After logging in (using the Login button at the top right, and assuming you're on the trusted list), you can edit any page by pressing the link near the top of the page. If you do not have account yet, you can create a new account. Capitalized words joined together form a WikiName, which hyperlinks to another page. The highlighted title searches for all pages that link to the current page. Pages which do not yet exist are linked with a question mark: just follow the link and you can add a definition.

To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks.

Here are some starting points for wiki editors:

RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
HelpForBeginners: to get you going
WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
MoinMoin: general information about the software behind this wiki
FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways
EditorsGroup: users with permission to edit the wiki (to prevent spam). Ask on IRC or on the mailing list to add yourself to the list

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