As the complexity of the Linux kernel increases, what is the kernel community doing to educate the next crop of kernel developers? I know that the "teach yourself" mentality that permeates the open-source community makes this uninteresting in some circles, but are there any free courses that you'd recommend for getting into kernel development? If not, how would you recommend that someone interested in computer science education set about getting something like this up and running? Partnerships with free online universities like Udacity, partnerships with ISPs to provide a configurable development environment, etc... what can we do?

What's even worse is that most of the out of date documents are abandoned, and emails with updates are ignored. I actually wrote updates to the Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO and, after the email to the maintainer bounced, was just ignored by whomever handles the email for TLDP. I don't see why we have to have such a congratulatory piece on slashdot; the headline should have read "After 10 years, TLDP struggles to live up to its name".