Can someone tell me where I can find the initial code, Linus Torvalds shared with hackers. I was thinking it will be a great place to learn about operating systems.

I d like to be able to diff files / directories directly from the Linux Kernel GIT repository without having to download full source. Specifically, I m interested in two potential solutions: The ...

For security reasons, it is desirable to check the integrity of code before execution, avoiding tampered software by an attacker. So, my question is How to sign executable code and run only trusted ...

According to the list of API changes in the 2.6 kernel series on LWN the .owner field of struct proc_dir_entry was removed in the 2.6.30 Kernel. So here s a couple of questions: Was it really ever ...

I m bit confused by the following statement in linux device drivers book. http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/ldd3/ 13.2. USB and Sysfs To help understand what this long device path means, we describe ...

After create a new system call, how to update the kernel? I tried these lines, make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg -initrd -append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_headers But Ubuntu asked me ...

This may seem like a kind of amorphous question, but how can you get the most of the Linux Kernel Documentation directory? I noticed on the Linux Cross Reference that there is a DocBook directory. ...

I m building a an external module ( device driver ), i.e. it s not in the Linux kernel source tree, but in a separate unrelated source tree. I want to use ctags to browse variable / function ...