I'm trying to get my hands on the source code for Linux. Someone
suggested downloading the bitkeeper source tree. So my question is,
what exactly is the bitkeeper source tree, and how do I download it?
I'd been expecting the source code to just be in the form of a whole
bunch of code files sitting in a directory. Is the source tree in this
format, or something more complicated?

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Request for Question Clarification by maniac-ga on 13 Mar 2003 18:04 PST

Hello Gremlin,

Are you interested in the "latest software" from Linus or would the
"latest formal release" be better for what you are interested in?

I can explain how Linus uses Bitkeeper (and how to access it) if you
are interested - but if you want a more stable / working version - I
can explain how to get that instead.
  --Maniac

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Clarification of Question by gremlin-ga on 13 Mar 2003 19:20 PST

I want the absolute lastest source, incorporating all the patches
people submitted last night. I don't plan on running it, I just want
to look at the code.

Salutes  Gremlin


 BitKeeper is distributed source code management system 

http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/expo/lw-thursday-bitkeeper.html


You can get it from their site: (all common platforms)

http://www.bitkeeper.com/index.html


You may also want to look into
http://sourceforge.net/

hedgie

Install linux (red hat for example) during the installation specify
that you want the source installed (or better yet, specify that you
want everything installed). Then once the install is done login, open
a terminal, goto /usr/src/ and there it is... IMHO that is about the
easiest way to get at a version of the linux source.
--jld