I recently installed Linux for the first time in over a year (at least I think it's been that long) since I got another machine to work with (my last died and couldn't afford to fix it). I started ...

So I downloaded the latest kernel: 2.4.19 and started to follow the steps at the following website:<BR>http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Compiling_Kernels/19_Steps_to_a ...

The current Linux source code is always available in both a complete tarball (an archive created with the tar command) and an incremental patch from the official home ...

Linux has come a long way from its roots, where users had to compile the kernel and all of the other source code from scratch, often without any internet connection at all to help with documentation.