Kernel Affairs
Thursday, June 14th, 2007I am giving back to the society by helping the Powertop project, which aims to reduce the power consumption of Linux on Intel. As part of the effort, I needed to cast away the already elderly 2.6.20 kernel that comes with Feisty. Thus I came face to face with the beast called git. To my pleasant surprise, the beast did not bite. It obediently filled up my hard disk with hundreds of megabytes of the fresh Linux source. The simplicity of its language manifests the beauty that we all cherish in Linux:
$ git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6