Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:55:52 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Shakil Khan <korikov.zk@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list Message-ID: <20090513165552.GA47498@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <717ed9590905130803x35a786b6uec0256cf855adf8f@mail.gmail.com> References: <mailman.0.1242226715.74750.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <717ed9590905130803x35a786b6uec0256cf855adf8f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:33:44PM +0530, Shakil Khan wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone let me know how can I download FreeBSD kernel source code. I am > on Linux and am not able to download using CVS. Can someone point me exactly > and also if some links are available where I can download tar ball of > FreeBSD kernek source code. My suggestion would be to download the latest ISO and install it on a machine with full source. Then you will have kernel and everything to make a FreeBSD including the correct compilers and libraries. Kernel is really dealt with differently in FreeBSD than in Linux. Although there is a kernel, it is intimately part of the whole operating system, not a kernel which someone grabs makes up a separate distribution with. ////jerry > Regards > ~Korikov > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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