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Welcome to the Linux Corner at Compupolis. Here is where you can find information about and resources for the operating system called Linux.
Just a little over half a decade ago, the Linux kernel was only at version 1.3.59 and could fit two or three floppy disks if you split the gzipped tarball into pieces. Now the kernel source code is over 21 MB in size when compressed with bzip2 and even larger if compressed with gzip. As of last update to this page, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel is version 2.4.17. The latest version of the previous stable branch is version 2.2.19. The definitive sites to get the kernel source code is ftp.linux.org or ftp.kernel.org. A copy of the source code compressed with bzip2 is available from Advantia Corporation's ftp site in case the definitive sites are too busy. For more information on Advantia Corporation, see their web site at http://www.advantia.com.
The Data Display Debugger is a graphical debugger front end written by Andreas Zeller and made available through the Free Software Foundation. It's much better than xxgdb, the original front end for the gdb debugger. DDD supports the gdb debugger, the Perl debugger, the Python debugger, as well as DBX, WDB, Ladebug, JDB, and XDB. DDD lets you view the data structures in your code as graphs. For more information on DDD, see DDD's home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/. Since DDD is officially only distributed in source tarballs, I'm making my RPM packages that I built myself available. Due to size issues, I have arranged to make the RPM packages downloadable from Advantia Corporation's ftp site. The binary RPMs are built on Red Hat Linux 6.2 using lesstif 0.89.9. To use the dynamic RPM, or to build from the source RPM, you will need either Motif or lesstif.
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