Kernel-mentors Digest, Vol 46, Issue 4

[Jorge Barreto]

> Hello everyone,
>  I am sure that you would have come across the following : I am a Kernel newbie and have been trying to keep up with the linux kernel, drivers and networking concepts. As I read through the material, I realized that the easier way to do this was by " Learning by doing" method and decided to get my feet wet. Can you please advice me a good place to start, I know lot of people have said Kernelnewbies.org but is there really a place to start by working on small parts of code,cleaning up code or best place to even start looking through the kernel code. Any advice here will be helpful. 
> Thanks,Sri

Read book's of Operating Systems, Linux Kernel, Unix, Computer
Architecture
and for programming read book's about the C Language, C specifications
learn to program in some functional language, perl or python to try to
figure out some code ramifications, and build code checking tools .
 Also learn mathematic, you wile be amaze how you can simplify thing's.
If you don't want this path go to the try and erro. ;)