Note where to find source code of FreeBSD and Solaris;

other minor changes.
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@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ and it is possible to get subscribed to bug reports -- ask the Red Hat
downstream maintainers.
Perhaps some other distributions have similar facilities, but these are the
only one I know about so far.
only ones I know about so far.
Testing New Features
@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ To follow the development curve closely, download release candidate (rc)
kernels from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/.
Build and install the kernel, and test new features with test
programs. Since the declarations of new system calls probably
won't yet be in your (g)libc, the use of syscall() or _syscallN()
may be required; see the intro(2) manual page.
won't yet be in your (g)libc, the use of syscall() may be required;
see the syscall(2) manual page.
All the world is not Linux
@ -229,6 +229,23 @@ other implementations. Grepping all of these trees can give some
clues about interfaces that are/aren't present on other Unix
implementations.
Source code
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The source code of some other Unix implementations is available,
and useful to study to determine undocumented details of behaviour
on those systems.
Instructions on how to get the source code of Open Solaris
can be found here (you'll need to install Mercurial ("hg")):
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/hg-build-snapshots/
The FreeBSD source code is avaiulable via anonymous CVS as described here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
You'll want a command something like the following:
cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co src
Release Philosophy
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@ -242,6 +259,7 @@ changed; for example, downstream maintainers, and translators of
the man pages (such as the dedicated Alain Portal, in recent
times) sometimes like to do this.
Being a good free software citizen
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