Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: UNIX KERNEL SOURCE CODE ?? Message-ID: Date: 25 Dec 90 07:26:08 GMT References: <1990Dec22.220835.45661@cc.usu.edu> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: slfrr@cc.usu.edu's message of 23 Dec 90 04:08:35 GMT > Can anybody tell me where I can get a copy of the UNIX Kernel >Source Code ? I know that it is copyrighted, but can I get a "student >copy" for a nominal price ? It is purely for educational purposes. Please post the code to the list! Seriously, you need a license executed by your institution for a copy of real (tm) Unix. Someone from your organization calls AT&T (USL?) and gets forms to fill out and pays a fee. Tapes will follow after your organization's lawyers express their nervousness over it all. You should ask around, there's a good chance your organization owns one of these licenses. For Berkeley code you then contact UCB/CSRG for another license, with your AT&T license (with another fee, tho much smaller), and they'll send you their version. For your vendors you'll have to contact them, but the AT&T license is still a pre-requisite (but check to make sure your vendor will even sell you the code, you'll need a copy from them if you really want to modify and run it, not all vendors will part with their code I assume, tho many will.) There's also free or almost free Unix-like kernels available. Minix is a Unix-clone which is available (Prentice-Hall?) for a small fee. And it can be shared among students somewhat last I looked. Much of the BSD ATT-free kernel code is becoming available for FTP from various archives. There seems to be enough there already to get a good understanding of how the (a) kernel works. There are certainly others which other people will mention. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | {xylogics,uunet}!world!bzs | bzs@world.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD