December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
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Tool locations
A lot of different tools were mentioned in this book. Here are links to where the source code for these tools can be found on the internet.
- Linux kernel
http://www.kernel.org and ftp://ftp.kernel.org contain all of the different versions of the Linux kernel source code. http://www.kernel.org/git/ contains a listing of all git trees in use by the different kernel developers.
- gcc
http://gcc.gnu.org/ is the main site for everything related to the Gnu C Compiler.
- binutils
http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ is the main site for all information about binutils.
- make
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ is the main site for all information about make.
- util-linux
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ is the directory for where all versions of util-linux can be downloaded.
- module-init-tools
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools/ is the directory for where all versions of module-init-tools can be downloaded.
- e2fsprogs
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ is the main project page for the e2fsprogs package.
- jfsutils
http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ is the main project page for the jfsutils package.
- reiserfsprogs
http://www.namesys.com/download.html is the main project page for the reiserfsprogs package.
- xfsprogs
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ is the main project page for the xfsprogs package.
- quota-tools
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/ is the main project page for the quota-tools package.
- nfs-utils
http://nfs.sf.net/ is the main project page for the nfs-utils ...
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