Type of site News Owner Jeremy Andrews Website kerneltrap.org | Available in English Created by Jeremy Andrews Alexa rank 4,459,204 (July 2014) | |
KernelTrap was a computing news website which covered topics related to the development of free and open source operating system kernels, and especially, the Linux kernel.
Contents
News stories usually consisted of a summary of a recent discussion from a development mailing list (Linux kernel mailing list) followed by the entire contents of several messages from the discussion. Each story had moderated threaded discussion attached to it. The site also included a forum for general discussion of computing topics.
The site used the Drupal content management system. Kerneltrap was hosted by the Oregon State University Open Source Lab from May 2005.
The site was operated by Jeremy Andrews.
Current status
The site has not been active since 12 April 2010, only 12 days after it became active again after a full year without any news items (except a note about upgrading the site engine, Drupal).
Books
KernelTrap has been referenced in several books.