Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:05:38 -0400 | From | "Kenneth C. Arnold" <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] Linux Kernel Source Reference |
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:55:12AM -0700, Ivan Passos wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:19:17PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > On 24 Jul 2000, Thomas Graichen wrote: > > > > > > Riley Williams has done this about a year or so ago I believe, > > > and if I'm not mistaken he has every kernel ever released since > > > 0.01 or so, plus all prereleases, etc.. It is a complete archive > > > of everything scrounged off the net and CD's, etc.. > > > > www.memalpha.cx. Riley has put together all kernels he could > > find as tarballs. Now we additionally have all the files inside > > browseable;) > > The difference is that Riley's collection is not CVS'd, so you can't diff > versions through the web, nor browse the files for each and every version > in the tree. > > BTW, you mentioned that the src files are browseable in Riley's archive. > How can you do that?!?! I couldn't find it ... :( > > Anyhow, I think both initiatives are noble and very valid. I just found > the CVS'd archive more useful _for me_ . But that's for me anyway ... ;)
So combine the two -- it's a collection of a heck of a lot of GPL'ed code anyway.
btw, is the CVS set up so that it doesn't hog hard disk space? Remember, patch works fine when you use 'cp -al old-kernel new-kernel', and it won't hog gigs...
Kenneth
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