Downloads [June 10, 2012, 9:33 a.m.]
Your task here is just to keep this page up in another tab or another window. I'll be referring to files from this task later. Go ahead and check it off.
Scripts
I've copied in some scripts from the CLFS book, the internet, and written a couple myself, which I have hosted here:
http://greenback.gremlin.net/chown
http://greenback.gremlin.net/RENAME.profile
http://greenback.gremlin.net/RENAME.profile2
http://greenback.gremlin.net/downloads.txt
http://greenback.gremlin.net/version-check.sh
http://greenback.gremlin.net/xsel.c
http://greenback.gremlin.net/git.sh
http://greenback.gremlin.net/unzip
http://greenback.gremlin.net/seed.spec
http://greenback.gremlin.net/curl.sh
http://greenback.gremlin.net/rpm.sh
Sources
These are all the "parts" you'll be making linux out of. To get all the sources at once, grab the downloads.txt file from the link above, and then run this command in a bash shell
wget -i downloads.txt
If you don't have wget, you can find generic instructions that will work in any build environment for building and installing it from source in wget's page in the CBLFS book, here:
http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Wget
The source for the Neal Stephenson essay that contains the "Hole Hawg" excerpt can be found here:
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/command.zip
Windows
Windows users will also want to download all of these:
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
http://cygwin.com/install.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html
Back-up
Once you've downloaded everything, now would be a good time to back up everything you downloaded. I prefer using a CD or DVD, because those are read-only, which means your files can't be accidentally deleted later.