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Linux.com interviews
Dave Jones, Fedora's kernel maintainer, as part of its Kernel
Developers series. "I needed to build my own kernel, because none of the distros shipped one that supported something I needed. And the feature I needed was only available in the development tree at the time (which was 2.1.x at the time). I don't recall what it was, but I think it may have been something silly like VFAT. Things weren't always stable, so I got into a habit of updating regularly (by carrying the latest tarball on a zip disk from the university to home). I started sending patches for things wherever I saw something I thought I could improve. I'm struggling to remember my first real accomplishment. It may have been fixing AFFS during the 2.1.x series. There were a whole bunch of really minor things before then."