Documentation extracted from the Linux kernel and mirrored on the web where Google can find it:

• html/latest - Kernel Documentation (mainline)

• html/next - Kernel Documentation (linux-next)

• README various README files scattered around Linux kernel source

• Output of kernel's "make help".

Standards documents applicable to the Linux kernel

• Single Unix Specification v4 (Also known as Open Group Base Specifications issue 7, and POSIX 2008. See especially system interfaces)

• C99 standard (current version of the C programming language): ISO/IEC C9899 PDF, html, or searchable website.

• LP64 standard defining the size of char, short, int, and long on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. (See also the rationale for the standard, and the legacy reasons another OS declined to adopt this standard).

• Linux Foundation's specs page (ELF, Dwarf, ABI...)

• SCSI standards

Videos worth watching

• Clay Shirky (NYU)
  • Institutions vs Collaboration
  • Where do people find the time (part one part two)
• Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick (Subversion)
  • How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People
• Martin Michlmayr (Debian)
  • Release Management in Large Free Software Projects
    • I.E. why time-based releases are superior to whenever-it's-finished releases
• Linus Torvalds
  • Why I Created Git
• Greg Kroah-Hartman
  • Linux Device Driver Tutorial

Other web pages containing kernel documentation

• Ottawa Linux Symposium papers, split up and indexed by year

• Linux man-pages website, includes HTML versions of man pages

• Development mailing lists available on kernel.org

  • See also the L: entries in MAINTAINERS

• All Linux Weekly News kernel articles indexed by topic

• Linux Journal archives

• Linux kernel changelog (summary of what's new in each version)

• H-Online's Kernel-Log (most recent first)

• Linux Device Drivers book (third edition) (second edition)

• IBM Developerworks Linux Library (also here)

• Linux Kernel Mailing List FAQ

• Kernel Planet (blog aggregator)

• Some locally produced docs

Translations to other languages

• Linux Kernel Translation Project

• Kernel Newbies regional pages

Documentation on memory management

• Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager, online book by Mel Gorman.

• What every programmer should know about memory, article series by Ulrich Drepper, parts one, two, three, four, five.

• Ars technica ram guide, article series by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes, parts one, two, three, Cacheing, Bandwidth and Latency.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email helpdesk at kernel dot org.