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Getting source code for operating system

Asked by R.Lakshmi Narasimhan

Where can I get our operating system source code?I would like to learn more things about Linux.It will be useful for me if I have source code of our OS.Also I would like to get into developing Linux.Please help me.Suggest me from where I can download source code or some other means are possible?

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hello

Ubuntu uses the Debian Linux source code. But, you have to know that linux is a kernel (http://www.kernel.org/), and a distribution is the software (http://www.gnu.org/) bundled with it..

Alternatively,

you can look at

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

and build your own linux.... :)

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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Alpo Turunen (alpo-turunen) said : 		#2

If you need to get source codes of single package in ubuntu you can use the command
'apt-get source packagename'
You must have source repositories enabled in software sources.

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