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

2018 Oct 15: [2e61ca8f435b76cc81b938b5d012884757cbba39 Update to 4.19-rc8— Michal Kubecekmkubecek@suse.cz]
2018 Oct 09: [903ffff58e2a94b9beb7616eff2298a4c14eddcc Merge branch 'packaging'— Michal Suchanekmsuchanek@suse.de]
2018 Oct 09: [48b03c4e62a9b45d666136bef7ab01aac892108e Revert "Limit kernel-source build to architectures for which we build binaries"— Michal Suchanekmsuchanek@suse.de]
2018 Oct 08: [63b130bcb30bd10b77ef7eda26dcc4eaec0d688e Update to 4.19-rc7— Michal Kubecekmkubecek@suse.cz]
2018 Oct 05: [361adad2f23707fccda6198f758f097a920ed461 Merge branch 'users/nborisov/master/for-next'— Michal Kubecekmkubecek@suse.cz]