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May 26, 2025 · Unless you downloaded, compiled and installed your own version of kernel from kernel.org, you are running a distribution kernel. To find out the version of your kernel, run …

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

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 …

Aug 6, 2024 · Kernel.org accounts are usually reserved for subsystem maintainers or high-profile developers. It is absolutely not necessary to have an account on kernel.org to contribute to the …

There are a great many reasons why kernel code should be merged into the official (“mainline”) kernel, including automatic availability to users, community support in many forms, and the …

Aug 6, 2024 · 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, …

内核文档，就像内核本身一样，在很大程度上是一 项正在进行的工作；当我们努力将许多分散的文件整合成一个连贯的整体时尤其如此。 另外，随时欢迎您对内核文档进行改进；如果您想提 …

These manuals contain overall information about how to develop the kernel. The kernel community is quite large, with thousands of developers contributing over the course of a year.

The maintainers of the various kernel subsystems — and also many kernel subsystem developers — expose their current state of development in source repositories.