Where Do You Download Linux Source Code

Where can I get the source code for Linux?

Linux 5.13 (latest as of July 2021) source code is located at https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.13.tar.xz. You can download it and extract it with those commands:

wget "https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.13.tar.xz"
tar xvf linux-5.13.tar.xz

Also, Linux has official Github repository at torvalds/linux and official git server is located at https://git.kernel.org/, can be downloaded with git:

git clone "https://github.com/torvalds/linux"

Besides C, you should learn GNU Makefile, a bit of Assembly language, and shell scripting. Github has a Languages section with technologies used in project visualized:

As you can see, it's mostly C.

Where do you download Linux source code?

What I did was type

man factor

and went to the bottom and found 'GNU coreutils 6.10'. So I googled 'coreutils' and... found the site joschi just linked to.

Linux kernel source code download

Linux is also in Github:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

How to download code of latest Linux kernel From development branch of Linux kernel maintainers?

Perhaps you need linux-next tree which is accessible from site of Linux kernel

So, you need to add a specific remote to existing clone of Linux tree (you may also consider how to manage many trees at one host)

git remote add next git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
git remote update next

or run a new clone operation:

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git

How can I download source code from Linux Cross Reference library (generated by LXR engine)?

If you're still looking for an answer, here is a procedure based on a low documented feature of LXR.

1. Display the file you are interested in
2. Modify the URL in the browser address bar, adding at the end ?_raw=1 and go there (i.e. press return key)
3. The file is then displayed "as is", without any decoration (it is sent as text/plain)
4. You can now save the file from browser menu command File->Save as

NOTES:

1. The ?_raw=1 argument can be used to have HTML files interpreted by your browser, i.e. displayed as HTML because they will be sent as text/html.
2. The feature has been present in LXR for ages, though in versions older than 0.10 the argument is spelled ?raw=1 (without underscore).
3. I checked that ?raw=1 works with free-electrons though they use 0.3.1 which was released in 2003!

How to download this source code?

Its written on that Url itself: Click on Git Read-only

git://github.com/vimeo/vimeo-php-lib.git

Otherwise, if you don't intend to do further development, fork or contribute and just want to see the source code, you can also download as .ZIP or .TAR.GZ from the Downloads button.

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