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Welcome to the Kernel Portal edit
The Linux Kernel is the central component of a Linux operating system like openSUSE. A Kernel manages hardware resources like CPU, memory and hard disks and provides abstractions that provide applications with a consistent view of these resources. Also, the Kernel provides drivers for devices attached to various system buses like USB, PCI, SATA and IDE. For a complete overview of Operating System Kernels see the Wikipedia article
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Community
Linux Mainline
On a regular basis a "kernel.org Kernel" (or mainline) is released with a name like "Linux 2.6.32". These Kernels are developed by a community of developers and maintained by Linus Torvalds. For more information about this take a look at http://kernel.org .
openSUSE Kernel
At the beginning of a openSUSE development cycle the Kernel team takes a released "kernel.org Kernel" and adds a number of patches to increase stability and introduce new features. These patches are kept to a minimum and most all will eventually make it into the kernel.org Kernel. This Kernel is maintained in the Kernel git repository.
Contribute
- The easiest way to contribute to the openSUSE Kernel is to submit a bugreport
- Or you code with us and submit patches to our git repository
Communicate
- #opensuse-kernel on the freenode IRC network is the channel that the Kernel team uses for live chat.
- opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org - The openSUSE Kernel team has its own mailing list..
Subscribe - Unsubscribe - Help - Archives - kernel.opensuse.org - The openSUSE Kernel resources site
kernel-source commits (news) edit
- 2013-May-21 06:05: Update to 3.10-rc2. (Jeff Mahoney)
- 2013-May-20 02:05: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/scripts' (Jiri Slaby)
- 2013-May-20 02:05: - Linux 3.9.3. (Jiri Slaby)
- 2013-May-17 08:05: Merge branch 'packaging' (Michal Marek)
- 2013-May-17 07:05: rpm/kernel-binary.spec.in: Avoid duplicates in the certifiate list. (Michal Marek)