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John Que wrote: | Hello, | | Hello, | | I have a Linux with 2-4.20-8 kernel running on it. | | I want to get the sources for this kernel; while looking at | ftp.kernel.org, searching under | ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4 | there were many many 2.4* linux,but none of them was 2.4.20-8 kernel. | | I also googled for it ; I saw some candidates, but I am not sure about | them. | | Why is it so ? is there no **OFFICIAL** Linux Kernel FTP/http site | in which this version | should appear ? | | | Regards, | John |
Check your Red Hat install media for a kernel-sources RPM. Red Hat modifies their kernels - the -8 is an internal number that Red Hat uses.
If you are looking at compiling your own kernel, use the latest 2.4 sources, 2.4.29. It has a lot of bugfixes and security fixes over 2.4.20.
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