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Distribution: Slackware64 13.37, Solaris 10, RHEL5/6
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How can I contribute to Linux community?
Hello,
I would like to contribute to Linux community (development of OSes, applications, etc...) somehow, but I don't know how... My interest is to get back to the community the joys they have given me over the years, and to extend my knowledge in Linux.
I have 5+ years of user and sys admin level of experiences with UNIX/Linux, and some programming skills in Perl/PHP/C. I enjoy finding and fixing problems.
Maybe I can start testing OSes or applications?
Would anyone have any suggestions for me where or how to start? I would like to hear opinions from anyone who is doing or has done so...
How skilled of a programmer are you? You can always help work on the linux kernel
There are lots of projects to code for.... You can start here in LQ and talk to some of the guys that develop for certain projects. You just have to look around.
Picking on that particular point, I'd say find an application that has an issue you feel you can tackle and submit your fix to the developer(s) for inclusion in the next version of whatever.
Picking on that particular point, I'd say find an application that has an issue you feel you can tackle and submit your fix to the developer(s) for inclusion in the next version of whatever.
The link in your post is completely off subject, and it looks to me like a link I wouldn't want to trust.... Please edit your thread and remove it. Thank you.
What, mine? I quoted a post that I reported, and it got removed due to being an off-subject topic, and the link within it was spam or something of that nature.
Distribution: Debian Wheezy, Jessie, Sid/Experimental, playing with LFS.
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Originally Posted by ubyt3m3
Maybe I can start testing OSes or applications?
That is an excellent way to start. I started testing Ubuntu's development releases now I use and test Debian Sid/Experimental. I have also modified a small number of files, such as debpartial and debcopy, to expand their abilities so people can use things like Blu-ray disks instead of single layer dvds.
Once you get going with this you will find little things you feel you can improve on and work your way through them learning on the way.
Distribution: Debian Wheezy, Jessie, Sid/Experimental, playing with LFS.
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You could join a translation project with a desktop environment like Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, Enlightenment etc. so it is better suited to your native (or official) language even if it is English there are different versions of English.
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