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 Oct 18: [51850a2684367e8cb57f28fe5c2b758513b305ef Merge branch 'packaging'— Michal Kubecekmkubecek@suse.cz]
2019 Oct 18: [945e59f524807aa14ab3cc9348fd2e643ff17c21 Merge branch 'scripts'— Michal Kubecekmkubecek@suse.cz]
2019 Oct 17: [fd3ccf8fbdd6f1b0cafeb2e1a7849928dace5296 cfg80211: wext: avoid copying malformed SSIDs (bsc#1153158— Cho, Yu-Chenacho@suse.com]
2019 Oct 16: [df31cdf45cddd11f007a15da4917156f48ed20a7 Update patches.suse/supported-flag references (add bsc#974406).— Michal Kubecekmkubecek@suse.cz]
2019 Oct 16: [3fd4e9595a65e54c01a7ba7189c371a0640e7934 Squash module-Inform-user-when-loading-externally-supported.patch from— Libor Pechaceklpechacek@suse.com]