The Source Of The Vanilla Kernel

• The "vanilla" kernel is normally kept at ftp.kernel.org, as a tar.gz (or tar.bz2 - better compressed) file.
• For example, the latest 2.4 kernel for now is found at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2
• Unpack these kernel sources as root:

       cd /usr/src/
       tar xjf /path/to/linux-2.4.24.tar.bz2
       

• You will get a new directory named 'linux-2.4.24', containing the sources.

Originally written by guy keren