16 years ago today, after watching a presentation on YouTube titled “Write and Submit your first Linux Kernel Patch” by Greg Kroah-Hartman, I submitted my first patch1 to the Linux kernel. 🐧🙂
I didn’t really have much idea of what I was doing, and after submitting a few more similar patches that same year (2010), I stopped.
Years later, in 2017, I picked it up again, and haven’t stopped since!🐧⚔️🛡
If you’ve contributed a few patches to the kernel but haven’t submitted in a while, give it another go. You never know what opportunities the future might bring. 🙌🏼
If you’ve never contributed to the kernel before and have some experience with C, you’d probably want to start here.
