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# What you can do to help FiXos
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Depending your *skills*, your *motivation* and your *preferences*, there are many things you can
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probably do to improve FiXos.
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If you feel you are a kernel hacker, its great!
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But even if you think you have not enough technical skill to deal directly with the kernel code,
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there are some task as much important you may do!
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## Hack the kernel!
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This is the most evident kind of task : help us to improve the kernel code, to make it faster,
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smarter, more stable, or portable accross other hardware platforms.
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Of course, writing code for the kernel need to *master* at least the C language, and depending
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the work you want to do, a good knowledge of the underlying hardware *may* help (or not, some parts
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of FiXos are really generics and do not deal at all with the hardware).
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More informations to be ready are available in the wiki : [Resources about kernel hacking](kernel-hacking) and [Some documentation of FiXos internals](fixos-internals).
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## Test it!
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Writing a kernel which work well on a given platform is cool.
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Writing a kernel which work perfectly on **many** platforms is better!
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If you think you have not enough time or skill to improve the kernel code directly, you maybe
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would like to improve it *indirectly*, by testing and [reporting bugs](bug-reporting) to developers.
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## Improve documentation
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Kernel documentation is *very* important, but at this time it really lacks.
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Helping us to create documentation, both for kernel and userspace hackers, and helping to correct and
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improve it is *not* less useful than writing code!
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In addition, if English is your mother tongue and/or you feel confortable with it, there are probably
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many things to correct in the documentation, in this wiki, and maybe elsewhere!
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## Hack the userspace!
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Userspace is less delicate, and maybe more fun if you like to interract with the user instead of with the hardware.
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A kernel alone is as useless as a nice coffee cup without coffee (sorry, first analogy I found).
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So let's make some coff... hum, some softwares for FiXos user space! |
