[ILUG] kernel hacker wanted

Colm MacCarthaigh colm at stdlib.net
Tue Oct 19 16:27:21 IST 2004


On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:13:11PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> 
> >The reason is to take post their name (with their permission) beside the
> >Alan Cox comment bout there being no kernel hackers in Ireland :)
> 
> There's at least two already: one irish though not in Ireland - 
> currently cleaning up and maintaining DRI (he's also worked on Linux 
> MIPS in the past iirc - linux on decstation), the other irish and in 
> ireland who works on a linux port to rather strange hardware (VAX).

And surely there are dozens of Irish contributers? Maybe not hackers in
the sense that they work on something regularly, but both people that
have written actual code in the kernel in the form of bugfixes, minor
patches and so on and major contributions to the kernel, like say a book
on it's Virtual Memory Management, that arnt directly code.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net



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