My first contribution to Linux

This was really interesting! I've often wondered how one would do such a thing.

Seeing your name in the Linux changelog must be awesome!

Thank you! It is indeed!

Bravo. Awesome work.

> Seeing your name in the Linux changelog must be awesome!

Years ago when I was a teenager I had a couple patches accepted for ksnake and gedit.

Certainly not as prestigious as a patch to Linux, but still the idea of code I'd written running on millions of PCs around the world felt amazing.

Same. I found serious bugs in a couple of games, exploited some, had fun, wrote a patch and sent it to whoever. Problem is, I was so anxious I did it under an alias. I have my different aliases in the changelog of some games. Nice to look at them, like "wow, that's my contribution", and then it hits "but no one will believe it was me, it was not under my name". God damn it. :(

You know, back when I confused "hash function" with "encryption" and whatnot.

I got a patch to Debian’s vixie-cron accepted [0], which thus far has been my proudest achievement. It’s tiny and stupid, and should never happen to anyone reasonable, but nevertheless, you can now change your server’s TZ without restarting crond or waiting for a DST shift, and your jobs will fire at the new correct time.

Contributing to the kernel is definitely on my list of things to eventually do.

0: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1019716

Congrats. I had a commit in the kernel but it got refactored out.

I'd be very proud of that myself. Nice job!