Download Ubuntu Source Code

Sameera Shaakunthala a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> Please someone tell me how to download the source code
for Ubuntu 6.06
> Also let me know what programming languages and
software packages should 
> I be fluent to modify ubuntu.
> 
> * Shaakunthala
> 
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> 

xD ... I really love the question  .

well, Ubuntu is not a software, it's an OS. The OS is
composed of a lot 
of software that have been integrated by the ubuntu
developpers team so 
that it could be *user friendly* and *wonderfull*  .

So Ubuntu source code doesn't mean anything .


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On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 19:29 +0100, Sameera Shaakunthala
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please someone tell me how to download the source code
for Ubuntu 6.06
> Also let me know what programming languages and
software packages
> should I be fluent to modify ubuntu.
> 
> * Shaakunthala
> 
> 
> Send instant messages to your online friends
> http://uk.messenger.yah
oo.com 
> 

>From the download page:
"Source code
In accordance with our philosophy and licensing guidelines,
source code
is made available for all packages in Ubuntu. It can be
browsed and
downloaded from our archive. Alternatively, one can easily
retrieve
source code from an networked Ubuntu system by using a
terminal to run
the command "apt-get source <package>"
where <package> is the name of
the source package that you would like to download and
unpack."

http://www.ubuntu.com/
download

Should be a start atleast.


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Sameera;

you're in for quite a piece of work here, honestly. ;)


Sameera Shaakunthala schrieb:
> Please someone tell me how to download the source code
for Ubuntu 6.06


As the other guys already pointed out: Ubuntu GNU/Linux is a
distribution made up of a lot of different packages,
including the Linux
kernel, the X11 server by X.org, the GNOME desktop
environment, the
OpenOffice.org application suite and numerous others. For
the packages
included with the Ubuntu installation disc and most of the
stuff to be
found in the repositories (excluding some of the multiverse
branch),
sources can be retrieved using "apt-get source".


> Also let me know what programming languages and
software packages should
> I be fluent to modify ubuntu.

To deal with most of the core packages, solid knowledge of C
is a must.
C++ and Java (talking about OpenOffice) won't hurt, either.
If you're
about to deal with the configuration and some of the Ubuntu
desktop
tools, you also should be familiar with Unix shell scripting
and, in
general, most of the scripting languages to be found in an
up-to-date
Unix environment (Perl, Python).

So, overally, a lot of work. ;) Perhaps you'd be better off
telling us
_what_ you actually want to do while modifying Ubuntu -
perhaps there's
easier help for you, perhaps there's a solution easier than
rebuilding
packages from source.


Cheers,
Kris



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