Microsoft Entryism

• SUSE Builds a Custom Linux Kernel to Boost Microsoft Azure Performance

• Exclusive: How open source is driving innovation in A/NZ [Ed: Another Microsoft puff piece. The thugs who blackmail Free software companies pretend to now champion those whom they blackmail.]

• Microsoft set to open source its powerful network emulator [Ed: More and more openwashing of mere entrapments that make one dependent on a proprietary Microsoft stack with NSA access]

A checklist for submitting your first Linux kernel patch

One of the biggest—and the fastest moving—open source projects, the Linux kernel, is composed of about 53,600 files and nearly 20-million lines of code. With more than 15,600 programmers contributing to the project worldwide, the Linux kernel follows a maintainer model for collaboration. In this article, I'll provide a quick checklist of steps involved with making your first kernel contribution, and look at what you should know before submitting a patch. For a more in-depth look at the submission process for contributing your first patch, read the KernelNewbies First Kernel Patch tutorial.

Teaching kids Linux at summer camp

As the late, great mathematician, computer scientist, and educator Seymour Papert once said, "I am convinced that the best learning takes place where the learner takes charge." Unfortunately, most schools stifle children's natural curiosity and creativity, locking down technology and reducing students to consumers of content they have no hand in creating. This summer, I had an opportunity to test Papert's theory while teaching a session on open source technology to a small group of middle school students at a local summer camp. I used some of open source advocate Charlie Reisinger's methods from his book, The Open Schoolhouse, to give the students the opportunity to explore and create their own knowledge. Reisinger says, "In an open schoolhouse, every student is trusted with learning technology and empowered to rewire and reshape the world."

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