On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is there any way to fix this or am I just unemployable. >> Cheers Nick > > Get married and take your wife's name! > > Being more realistic, get good at a specific subsystem and earn a good > reputation in that subsystem. If you're lucky someone will get to > know your reputation and get you a shot regardless that you got off on > the wrong foot. > > More importantly, except for kernel trainers like Robert, most > companies hire linux kernel subsystem developers, not linux kernel > developers. Thus you need to find a part of the kernel you want to > delve into and get really good at just it. > > You can also research who the companies are that employ kernel > developers and see which subsystems they are working in. As an > example Redhat employs a couple of the XFS developers. SUSE employs > one of the mdraid developers, etc. > > Greg > > > -- > Greg Freemyer I was really worried , that I would have to give up on this goal, but thanks for the advice. I am interested in working in schedulers, file systems and networking. If you guys want to help me , just tell me how to get started and again to all the maintainers, I feel terrible about wasting your time. Sorry and thanks A lot, Nick _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
