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Eudyptula Challenge (2014)

Linux kernel development is tricky to learn. Though there are lots of resources available covering many of the procedural and technical facets of kernel development as well as a mailing list for kernel newbies, it can still be difficult to figure out how to get started. So some kind of "challenge" may be just what the penguin ordered: a series of increasingly difficult, focused tasks targeted at kernel development. As it turns out, the Eudyptula Challenge—which has been attracting potential kernel hackers since February—provides exactly that.

So some kind of "challenge" may be just what the penguin ordered: a series of increasingly difficult, focused tasks targeted at kernel development. Google is generally helpful, but there is a huge amount of information out there in various forums, mailing lists, blog posts, weekly news magazines, and so on, some of which is good and useful, some of which is old and possibly semi-useful, and some of which is just plain misleading or wrong. That has led to longer wait times and some misbehavior from the " convoluted shell scripts that are slow to anger and impossible to debug" (as they are described on the web page).

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