WHY FORK?

A fork version of the linux kernel.
Fork time: 2024/10/24 UTC+8

Given that Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman have removed lots of maintainers with <.ru> top-level domain emails and one maintainer with a Russian identity from the MAINTAINERS file,^{1 2} as well as publicly insulted and trampled on some builders of the open-source community.^{3 4 5}

To prevent such incidents in the future, I have decided to fork a copy of the Linux kernel source code for future needs.

Linux kernel

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use make htmldocs or make pdfdocs.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.

Footnotes

1. MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. - Greg Kroah-Hartman ↩

2. GitHub Commit: "MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. · torvalds/linux@6e90b67" ↩

3. Re: Revert "MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements." - Linus Torvalds ↩

4. 安同开源社区有关 Linux 基金会及其职员不当行为的谴责 | 安同开源社区 (AOSC) ↩

5. English version of link 4 ↩