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Re: Linux Kernel Explorer

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How is this different from https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux

Elixir is a great tool for exploring and cross-referencing the Linux codebase but for a new person, Linux can come across as very intimidating and complicated. The above explorer makes it very interesting to explore the codebase. This is kind of like an interactive book on Linux internals, with every topic being referenced through code.

Re: Linux Kernel Explorer

#16

Am I the only one that can't access the website due to certificate problems with the .dev?

I cannot reproduce. Would you mind sharing a bit more? The certificate is handled by Cloudflare Pages.

My bad, the network I was connected to didn't like the certificate for some reason. Cool project!

Re: Linux Kernel Explorer

#18
Very neat. It reminds me a bit of how pages in the Talmud are laid out. From a gentile perspective, it was very interesting to me to see how hundreds (thousands?) of years of commentary are contained within the same page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1acgks3/...

https://triberuth.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/my-talmud-layout-...

Code isn't linear the same way, and pages don't make as much sense, but that idea of layers of commentary rings out in this Linux Kernel Explorer as well. I very much like the notes on the side!

Re: Linux Kernel Explorer

#20
I love this idea. I like exploring code of interesting projects even if I don't intend to ever work on them, but in complex software I don't know much about it's hard to even find where are the most important basic parts. This allows me to easily find and see how some things in the kernel look like.

Found a bug: in the Chapter 2, when I click on "open" next to "mm/" or other dirs, I get an error: " Failed to load file - Invalid file response from GitHub API - File: mm/". I guess it's cause it tries to open the dir as a file, instead of something like pointing at the dir in the dir tree?

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