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The following manuals are written for users of the kernel — those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system and application developers seeking information on the kernel’s user-space APIs.

Dec 16, 2024 · Active kernel releases In Releases. There are several main categories into which kernel releases may fall: Prepatch Prepatch or "RC" kernels are mainline kernel pre-releases that are mostly aimed at other kernel developers and Linux enthusiasts.

Documentation extracted from the Linux kernel and mirrored on the web where Google can find it:

提交之前请确认你的补丁可以正常提交到中文文档维护库: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/alexs/linux.git/ 如果你的补丁依赖于其他人的补丁, 可以与其他人商量后由某一个人合并提交。 与Linux 内核社区一起工作 ¶

Aug 6, 2024 · New to Linux? If you're new to Linux, you don't want to download the kernel, which is just a component in a working Linux system. Instead, you want what is called a distribution of Linux, which is a complete Linux system.

Aug 6, 2024 · Where can I find kernel 3.10.0-1160.45.1.foo? Kernel versions that have a dash in them are packaged by distributions and are often extensively modified. Please contact the relevant distribution to obtain the exact kernel source. See the Releases page for more info on distribution kernels.

Linux kernel development process currently consists of a few different main kernel “branches” and lots of different subsystem-specific kernel branches. These different branches are:

The Linux Kernel documentation ¶ This is the top level of the kernel's documentation tree. Kernel documentation, like the kernel itself, is very much a work in progress; that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered documents into a coherent whole.

1.2. What this document is about The Linux kernel, at over 8 million lines of code and well over 1000 contributors to each release, is one of the largest and most active free software projects in existence.