AIX: Sources For Public Domain Software

This list is maintained in the AIX FAQ found on the Internet news group comp.unix.aix .

The most useful sites are the first 4 listed.

Ciaran Deignan (C.Deignan@frec.bull.fr) maintains a WWW archive of SMIT-installable packages of popular freeware at http://www-frec.bull.com/. Download the ".bff" files with your WWW browser, and run "smit install_latest" to install.

Below are some ftp sites that are said to have RS/6000 specific software.

US Sites
<ftp://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/pub/>                    128.97.2.211
<ftp://aix.boulder.ibm.com/>
<ftp://software.watson.ibm.com/>

European Sites
<ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/AIX/RS6000/>               128.214.6.100
<ftp://iacrs1.unibe.ch/pub/>                            130.92.11.3
<ftp://ftp.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE/pub/aix/>                   130.149.4.50
<ftp://ftp-aix.polytechnique.fr/pub/binaries/rios/>     129.104.3.60
<ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/sw/rs_aix32/>               129.69.8.13

The first one is dedicated to software running on AIX. It might not always be the latest versions of the software, but it has been ported to AIX (normally AIX version 3 only).

The remaining sites are simply ones that archie indicated contained AIX related materials.

<ftp://ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com/>    #IBM announcements, oem hardware
<ftp://cac.toronto.ibm.com/>      #marketing-info
<ftp://ftp.egr.duke.edu/>
<ftp://straylight.acs.ncsu.edu/>
<ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/rs6000>
<ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/sw/rs_aix32/>
<ftp://iacrs2.unibe.ch/pub/aix/>
<ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/pub/RS6000/>
<ftp://aixive.unb.ca/>
<ftp://ftp.ans.net/pub/misc/>
<ftp://uvaarpa.virginia.edu/pub/misc/>
<ftp://ux1.cts.eiu.edu/pub/rs6000/>
<ftp://ftp.bsc.nopub/Src/>
<ftp://ftp-aix.polytechnique.fr/pub/binaries/rios/>
<ftp://aix1.segi.ulg.ac.be/pub/aix/>
<ftp://byron.u.washington.edu/pub/aix/>
<ftp://cunixf.cc.columbia.edu/aix/>
<ftp://files1zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de/pub/aix/>
<ftp://ftp.rz.uni-augsburg.de/pub/aix/>
<ftp://fyvie.cs.wisc.edu/pub/aix/>
<ftp://solaria.cc.gatech.edu/pub/aix/>
<ftp://spot.colorado.edu/aix/>
<ftp://swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at/unix/systems/aix/>
<ftp://switek.uni-muenster.de/pub/aix/>
<ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/aix/>
<ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/AIX/>
<ftp://karazm.math.uh.edu/pub/AIX/>
<ftp://minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de/pub0/pub/AIX/>
<ftp://oersted.ltf.dth.dk/pub/AIX/>
<ftp://rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de/pub/incoming/AIX/>
<ftp://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/rs6000/>
<ftp://cameron.egr.duke.edu/rs6000/>
<ftp://ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/rs6000/>
<ftp://metropolis.super.org/pub/rs6000/>
<ftp://ramses.cs.cornell.edu/pub/rs6000/>
<ftp://server.uga.edu/pub/rs6000/>
<ftp://uvaarpa.virginia.edu/pub/rs6000/>
<ftp://wayback.cs.cornell.edu/pub/rs6000/>
<ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/pub/RS6000/>
<ftp://byron.u.washington.edu/pub/aix/RS6000/>
<ftp://milton.u.washington.edu/pub/RS6000/>
<ftp://pascal.math.yale.edu/pub/RS6000/>
<ftp://uxc.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/RS6000/>