Portal:Kernel

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

2019 Dec 23: [acd079750d5fb0e13c48572e02df06353f88000c Update to 5.5-rc3— Michal Kubecekmkubecek@suse.cz]
2019 Dec 16: [5d7acaad7389bcec8e5b58ce222d2d68b693bab7 Update to 5.5-rc2— Michal Kubecekmkubecek@suse.cz]
2019 Dec 12: [9e9a23d67abe001b64df5f3d06c8ee1168f86d6d hwrng: iproc-rng200 - Add support for BCM2711 (jsc#SLE-7772).— Nicolas Saenz Juliennensaenzjulienne@suse.de]
2019 Dec 10: [b783fd1229dfeeff09af268db73921bf3f5e0671 Merge branch 'scripts'— Michal Suchanekmsuchanek@suse.de]
2019 Dec 10: [58db0dd666cf2ec9f3cb738ad765baa2e0cc485c scripts/osc_wrapper: make it work with osc >= 0.165— Jiri Slabyjslaby@suse.cz]