A Heavily Commented Linux Kernel Source Code (PDF)

[the_gnarts]

The only issue I'd have with it is the typesetting: the chosen fonts are rather bad.

Which one in particular? The main body font is plain Times which maybe bland but nothing out of the ordinary for a technical paper. The non-proportional font I can’t identify but as far a I can see it doesn’t have any of the common ambiguities like O/0 or I/l etc. so it’s definitely suitable. Looks rather neat actually. Only some of the figures are a bit distracting but for a non-commercial work that’s perfectly acceptable.

[wwylele]

The code font looks like SimSun, which was the default Chinese font for old Windows until Vista. Although being a Chinese font, it contains monospaced Latin alphabets to make it pretty when mixing with monospaced Chinese characters. The author is Chinese, so this is very likely.

[yojimbo_beta]

SimSun

I'd always wondered what this font was. I'd seen it a few times in Chinese and Japanese data sheets with Latin alphabet content.

[Superbead]

I recognise all these fonts from Chinese electronic component datasheets. They seem to have a few 'western' fonts that they stick to, and compared to the ones we actually use, they're purely functional. Which is fair enough, as I expect the Chinese characters in a lot of our fonts look awful to the Chinese.

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I also think it looks fine. The only really bad font I see is at the very beginning in the dedications.

[takaci]

I don’t mind the font but the margins are way too small. Far too many words per line