Home/ Questions/Q 6900281
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-27T07:31:35+00:00

I’m quite interested in getting stuck in to some Unix source code, say Fedora

  • 0

I’m quite interested in getting “stuck in” to some Unix source code, say Fedora or Ubuntu.

  1. In practical terms, how would one “re-write” some part of the Unix OS. I presume you would need two machines, a dev machine and a tester? Would you need to re-install the OS on each modification of a .c file? How could I edit the file and re-compile it etc?

  2. What resources are there for knowing which parts of a Unix OS/Kernel relate to which C files (I presume there is no C++) and how to find them?

Thanks in advance for help

ps my motivations for doing this are to eventually be able to learn more about the lower-level fundamentals of the Unix OS, so that I could try and get into programming high freq trading systems.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    First you need to know what you’re looking for. You want to download and look at the: linux kernel. Which is the same for Fedora and Ubuntu (and all other GNU Linux distributions). Second, you might want to start with something easy, like downloading the kernel, configuring and compiling it and booting it. Once you do that you can move up from there.

    • 0