Re: [ANN] Linux Kernel Source Reference

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 18:19:17 EDT

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    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..

    I can't remember his URL though. Now that I mentioned it though,
    I'm sure he or someone else will provide it. I think he offers
    it on CDR as well.

    Hope this helps further your effort.
    TTYL

    >i just want to let you all know that there is now a small public
    >service i just (half :-) finished setting up which i called
    >
    > The Linux Kernel Source Reference
    >
    >it's basically a cvs tree with all linux versions starting from
    >1.0 until the latest one with a cvsweb www frontend and pserver
    >remote functionality on top of it ... this way you can easily
    >get or diff or whatever any ever released i(since 1.0 :-) version
    >of the linux kernel source ... just have a look at it at
    >
    > http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/lksr/
    >
    >... maybe you find it useful for studying the code, looking
    >at changes, encircling bugs or other things (maybe just using
    >cvs update instead of patching the kernel) ...
    >
    >all this is work in progress - so it will be more improved and
    >better documented soon and - if more people should use it - will
    >maybe get it's own machine (pserver access is limited to 5 parallel
    >sessions for now - but will be increased if required - so don't
    >give up and try it again some days later if it should always be
    >busy)
    >
    >if you find any problems or bugs in it or have ideas or
    >improvements feel free to mail me ... have fun
    >
    >t
    >
    >

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