From: "Igor B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I want to get a code of all Linux including terminal with shell and
graphic environment
In a technical sense there is no way to do this. You can approximate it
many ways. The source for Linux itself can be obtained from www.kernel.org
with a complete record of all its versions, developmental and production
versions. (Good luck picking one that ideally suits you without a lot of
study before hand.) This alone is not particularly useful, either. It
has no particularly useful shell around it nor convenient ways to start
and manipulate the various services that are inherent in the kernel,
such few of them as there are.
Now, if you want all of the source for a particular distribution of
Linux you are still out of luck. Some source is not freely distributable.
Notable among this is the NVidia graphics drivers. You have to use their
binary distribution and take it on faith. You also get a very large
compilation of source code.
If your requirement is more sane and acknowledges that "all Linux" as
used in the vernacular may mean all of the Open Source portions of a
specific distribution then you can generally go to a mirror site for
that particular distribution and find the source. Mandrake, Red Hat,
Fedora, and probably some others use "rpm" as their packaging tool.
The source files are located in "SRPM" or "SRPMS" directories on these
sites. You have to commit some directory drilling to find them. But once
found they are quite obvious. Start at the top level for the mirror,
drill down until you find the distribution in which you are interested,
one presumes Mandrake if you ask here. For Mandrake you can drill into
"official/10.1" to get to the interesting material for the latest
material that is publicly available. Drill from there for the SRPMS
for the distribution. You may also want to visit "updates/10.1" to
find updated SRPMS for the updated packages since 10.1 was released.
The total download is probably 3 to 6 CDROMs. And unless you are running
a Linux system that is more or less up to date they are useless as a
stand alone. Bootstrapping Linux from raw source is not generally done
with Mandrake Linux. I understand this is Debian's initial install
mechanism, though. And once a minimalist Debian is installed you can
use it to build your own install CDROMs for Mandrake Linux if that is
your intent. Of course, the full set of SRPMS is interesting if you
wish to audit a few bullion lines of code for some reason, such as a
self appointed GPL policeman might wish to do. (And if you do find
something missing that should be there politely inform the Mandrake
people. I am sure they will rectify it as soon as their fingers can
trek the keyboard with the correct commands to do so.
{^_^}
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