On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:12:38PM -0700, eric wrote: ... > thanks your hint, from some of mailing list stated, upgrade kernel seem > more complex process in debian than in rpm distributions. In that mail: > > Got my old config file from /boot > and put it in the source and did a make oldconfig. I then did a > make xconfig and made sure that I had ext2 support and elf and > a.out all compiled in > may I ask you what is source?
When a programmer writes a program, the resulting text file is called the source code or source for short. When this source gets compiled the resulting file is called the binary code. And when it is linked with all needed libraries the resulting file is called the executable code. When the program code is to be interpreted instead of compiled and executed directly by hardware, one speaks of byte code, being the intermediate representation the interpreter used to speed up execution of that source code. There is a lot more to say then the above, and in doing so it would become clear that much of the above is lies upon lies:) but I hope it gives you some idea of what is ment. Otherwise find some solid introductionary text on programming in general. -- groetjes, carel
