The Eudyptula Challenge

by r4um • 12 years ago

75 13 12 years ago

That is a great idea, a series of programming exercises for the Linux kernel. I never needed to do kernel programming, but it always seemed terrible interesting to me. This will probably motivate me to actually do so!

chrisBob• 12 years ago

moving on up in complexity to getting patches accepted into the main Linux kernel source tree.

Any idea how many exercises are involved. I took a class on kernel modules, and this sounds like fun, plus it is moving towards something useful, and not just a set of exercises for learning's sake.

FiloSottile3• 12 years ago

I'm some levels in and this is amazing! You have to be actually motivated to make it and have a Linux machine around to go ahead, but I think it's run by some good kernel hackers.

keithxm232• 12 years ago

This may seem silly, but how do you send an email without html in the current version of Gmail?

One solution I think works is using m.gmail version (the mobile version). Is there any better way?

r4um• 12 years ago

Compose -> More Options (Lower right) -> Plain text mode

keithxm232• 12 years ago

Perfect! Thank you!

vinkelhake• 12 years ago

I wonder if this is the work of Wolfgang "datenwolf" Draxinger. He's got the eudyptula.org domain and is perhaps most known for a talk at 27c3 that was completely derailed by Lennart Poettering.

midas0072• 12 years ago

0. What's the dev environment look like? VM, web, etc?

1. Will there be mandatory hazing to get accustomed to interacting with kernel devs?

FiloSottile3• 12 years ago

0. VMs are fine to start, but you'll want a linux machine soon-ish; (Web!?)

1. Part of it is learning proper style and communication means

midas0072• 12 years ago

0. Matasano challenge used a web interface, and it was quite pleasant. Doesn't really matter what the "view" is so long as the goal is accomplished. But if folks want to go down the boring cliché road of religulocity by insisting emacs is the only true editor[i], it would be disappointing.

[i] another example might be zsh vs. bash, a thread that would go off the right edge.

nollidge• 12 years ago

I'm too busy coding my 2048 riff to work on this.

crowhack• 12 years ago

I've been looking for an excuse for more C programming and less web dev. This seems like a great learning experience. Can't wait to start this!

The Eudyptula Challenge

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