I suggest you Archlinux[1], highly updated and customizable. But it's not broke by updates day in day out.
[1] https://www.archlinux.org/ 2013/11/13 Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu....@gmail.com> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Naman Shekhar Mishra > <mishra123.na...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi mentors, > > I have been studying the Linux kernel for some time and now I am going to > > try and get my hands hands dirty with the kernel. Can you please tell me > > what is the best distro for this? I have experience with Gentoo and LFS > but > > If you're comfortable with Gentoo then I guess you're ready for kernel > development! :P (kidding!) The reason I say this is because I heard > (I've not used Gentoo personally) that you get to build/install all > packages from scratch before using them! :) > > You can also have a look at the popular ones like Ubuntu, Fedora or > Mint (dunno much about Mint though). They come with good package > managers and that makes installing stuff easy. So whether you want to > install eg binutils or a new browser or even the kernel sources, the > package manager will help you get all the stuff + it's dependencies. > > HTH, > -mandeep > > > > would they be good if I just want to get involved in kernel development > > (and not the maintenance overhead that comes with these distros)? It > would > > be useful for me if you could tell me the distro you use. > > > > Thanks and regards, > > Naman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kernelnewbies mailing list > > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >
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