"Hanske;Stefan" wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> > I have been searching for some of the basic binaries such as "top".
> > Are there any websites that maintain these binaries, or would it be best to
> > download and compile source from RedHat?
>
> I don't think you need to compile all the stuff again, there must be
> thousands of people who did that already.
Well, while I agree that it may be a waste to recompile the world, I have
had trouble hunting down various sources for some of the
tools that I'm currently using getting my hardware up.
For example, while I would like to use fdisk straight out of the
binary box, I did need to see exactly what it was calling, to better
understand my current 'scsi' problem.
What is my model here would be say the various *BSD distributions
that do sort of have the source hierarchy following the
eventual binary hierarchy. This of course has some amount
of variability, but I have not found where in the linux world there's
a similar sort of lay out to gzipped tar archives.
In the Redhat world, it did take me a number of tries to get
the sources to some particular tool that was found in the
basic installation tool set. I think it was something like login... it's
neither here nor there exactly which one it was, it was just
difficult to find the source of what I consider to be
pretty basic.
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