Hello all, It has be a learning experience reading the threads related to the topic "Need for tutorials". For a newcomer like me the real problem is what to do or where to start? Thus tutorials will be a great help. Best Ashok --- Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, taha hafeez wrote: > > > I feel (may be i am wrong!!!) that there is a need > for tutorials to help > > build the basis for the newbies so that they are > competent enough to > > understand the mailing list.... > > I like this idea, but am not sure in what form such > tutorials > could be. I am familiar with the tutorials given at > conferences, > in which an audience gets taught how to write a > device driver, > debug the kernel, etc.. > > Linux also has "skeleton" device drivers, which > provide a > framework for writing new drivers. > > Since these kinds of tutorials and guidelines need a > kernel > source tree and a compiler to work, I'm not sure how > they could > possibly done as online tutorials... > > What kind of tutorial did you have in mind ? > > -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in > the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as > possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - > Brian W. Kernighan > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > ___________________________________________________________ Win tickets to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany with Yahoo! Messenger. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/fifaworldcup_uk/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
