So how a Linux OS is developed when the source of all the softwares to included into it are gathered a single place? Ubuntu is like a tree and it should have a root too, this tree has its softwares like its branches. So I want to know what this root and tree are?
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]>wrote: > On 06/26/2010 10:19 PM, Abhi wrote: > >> I want to learn Linux Programming. So before that I would like to know >> how the source code of the apps used in ubuntu and that of the OS >> itself looks like. >> So from where can I get the source code from? What I think is that >> some command in terminal of installed ubuntu will be able to do my >> job. But I m not clear about it. >> In short I want the source code of Ubuntu. >> >> > Ubuntu is a distribution that is it is made of small pieces joined > together. You WILL NOT get the whole source code in all; this is applicable > to any Linux OS. > > See the sites of individual applications, for example, coreutils, it gives > you the standard tools like ls, etc. > > > -- > Regards, > Nilesh Govindarajan > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr > Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr > Website: http://www.itech7.com > Cheap and Reliable VPS Hosting: http://j.mp/arHk5e > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Abhineet Jayaraj -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
