Git is the change-tracking tool used by the Linux kernel developers, originally written by Linus Torvalds. This mailing list is where git development happens.

The Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) is focused on the discussion of Linux kernel development. Our archives of this mailing list start in January of 2007.

Kernelnewbies are a community of people that improve or update their Kernels and of aspiring Linux kernel developers and more experienced developers willing to share their knowledge. We help each other learn how the Linux kernel works and occasionally discuss other operating system kernels.

Discussion surrounding the development of the MadWifi and ath5k wireless Ethernet device drivers.

A mailing list for coordinating ath5k development, for a first review of patches, and so on.

UCARP allows a couple of hosts to share common virtual IP addresses in order to provide automatic failover. It is a portable userland implementation of the secure and patent-free Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP, OpenBSD’s alternative to the patents-bloated VRRP).

An informal project to get experienced developers to mentor new developers and coach them on the best ways to get their code ready for submission.

Linux SCSI development mailing list.

The Linux USB mailing list.

Linux Security Modules (LSM) development mailing list.

Linux kernel-janitors discussion, going through the Linux kernel source code, doing code reviews, fixing up unmaintained code and doing other cleanups and API conversions. It is a good start to kernel hacking.

Sparse, the semantic parser, provides a compiler frontend capable of parsing most of ANSI C as well as many GCC extensions, and a collection of sample compiler backends, including a static analyzer also called "sparse". Sparse provides a set of annotations designed to convey semantic information about types, such as what address space pointers point to, or what locks a function acquires or releases. Linus Torvalds started writing Sparse in 2003, initially targeting issues such as mixing pointers to user address space and pointers to kernel address space. As of 2006, Josh Triplett now maintains Sparse.

Linux newbies mailing list.

The original Linux kernel discussion forum, originally a mailing list it eventually became the newsgroup comp.os.linux. Our archive includes postings from 1991, 1992, and 1993. Originally described as:

"Linux_activists is a discussion archive of the mailing list about Linux, a free unix-like kernel for 386-AT computers, coming with full source code. It is meant for hackers/computer science students to use, learn and enjoy."