Linux Architecure Project

[Stephen Hemminger]

Jose Lagares wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a CS Master Degree student, and we have a team will be extracting 
> and documenting the architecture of Linux. We know that having the 
> architecture of a a software available is a huge advantage for 
> understanding and viewing the whole OS. We would like to contribute 
> our work to the Linux community, and we are pretty sure it will be 
> usefull for future development, and maintainance work. Since we are 
> all new to the Linux internals we will like to be pointed to some 
> direction regarding :
>
> Wich is the best Linux source code distribution available?

kernel.org

>
> Is there any more actualized document (there is a 1998 document 
> http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~itbowman/CS746G/a2/ 
> <http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eitbowman/CS746G/a2/>) of the linux 
> architecture?
>
No, it changes.

> If there are any developers that would like to get involved in the 
> project?

Only if it was automated. Robert Love and Greg KH wrote a good book
but it will always be out of date.

> Is there any central community for the developers of Linux? A 
> centralized code repository (sourceforge?)?

kernel.org

> Thanks a lot for any help, he hope we can contribute to this great OS
>
>
> gabriel Lagares