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My first contribution to Linux

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642 points vkoskiv | 1 comments | 06 Oct 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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schnitzelstoat ◴[06 Oct 25 13:11 UTC] No.45491030[source]▶
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!

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henrym ◴[10 Oct 25 01:30 UTC] No.45534687[source]▶
> 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.

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sgarland ◴[10 Oct 25 10:35 UTC] No.45537273[source]▶
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

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1. fragmede ◴[10 Oct 25 11:10 UTC] No.45537515[source]▶
Congrats. I had a commit in the kernel but it got refactored out.