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FTP sites

Here are some of the places that I like to FTP to. I'm not even close to being done with this, but if you have any good ones to add, let me know what they are and if I like them, I'll add them.

General Interest - Windows 3.X - Windows95 - WindowsNT - General Unix - Solaris - AIX - Linux - MacOS X (a.k.a. Darwin)

• General Interest

This is an area for sites that you can FTP into and download information (as opposed to programs) and is therefore not specific to any computer platform.

• Essential FTP Commands
• RFC 1635 describes how to use Anonymous FTP.
• UNC Chappel Hill's Sound file archives via FTP or HTML (all sounds in Sun's .au format)
• True Type Resource a resource for True Type fonts (used a lot on PCs, but also used by some X-Windows versions).
• 1001 Free Fonts has tons of fonts in Mac and Windows formats.
• Monster FTP sites list
• A Plus Art has graphics that you can download (for your web page, etc.)
• TinyApps has links to a number of small applications on various platforms.

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• Windows 3.x

• ftp.winsite.com formerly ftp.cica.indiana.edu. They also offer a nicer web interface on their web server.
• ftp.software.com - a shareware site. They also have a web interface at www.software.com
• ftp.cdrom.com - Walnut Creek, producers of CDROMs of shareware, copies of which they often keep on their FTP site.
• prep.ai.mit.edu - Home of Free Software Foundation ( GNU ) products
• ShareWare.com A search engine for FTP sites.



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• Windows 95

• ftp.winsite.com formerly ftp.cica.indiana.edu. They also offer a nicer web interface on their web server.
• www.windows95.com A shareware site dedicated to Windows95 stuff.
• Most Windows 3.x programs should run on Windows95.
• Some WindowsNT programs may run under Windows95.
• prep.ai.mit.edu - Home of Free Software Foundation ( GNU ) products
• Jumbo Download Network
• ShareWare.com A search engine for FTP sites.



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• Windows NT

• ftp.winsite.com formerly ftp.cica.indiana.edu. They also offer a nicer web interface on their web server.
• Many Windows 3.x programs will run under WindowsNT.
• Most Windows95 programs will run under WindowsNT.
• prep.ai.mit.edu - Home of Free Software Foundation ( GNU ) products
• Jumbo Download Network
• ShareWare.com A search engine for FTP sites.



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• General Unix

Here are some sites of general Unix interest. These are usually places that offer public domain software that has been or can be ported to multiple platforms.

• www.gnu.org is home of the GNU project (a.k.a. the Free Software Foundation). they have an FTP site, ftp.gnu.org too. They have a page on their Y2K testing too. prep.ai.mit.edu was the orginal home of the GNU ) products.
• ftp.x.org - The X-Windows Consortium.
• ftp.w3.org - the WWW Consortium, makers of the CERN web server.
• Binaries.ORG has binaires for many unix platforms
• Garbo has some ports of unix commands to PCs
• ShareWare.com A search engine for FTP sites.
• Source Forge - an major source for Open Source software.

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• Solaris

• sunsolve1.sun.com Sun's place for patches to Solaris.
• SunFreeware has a nice web font end to files you can download to add freeware to your system. All are in the standard "pkgadd" format, however, unlike the packages that come from Sun, you don't say pkgadd -d directory, you say pkgadd -d file on the file that you download (after uncompressing it). This is the same as the old VNET site.
• FreeWare4Sun is a site that offers popular freeware products ported to Sun Solaris in binary and source code format (as compressed tar files).
• opcom.sun.ca - Sun's Canadian office, they have a nice collection of shareware, ported to Solaris and SunOS.
• beetle.murdoch.edu.au A nice little Aussie university site, with most of the latest stuff in binary format for you.
• sunsite.unc.edu - once a bastion of sun realated information, lately sunsite has had more linux stuff on it than sun stuff.
• Binaries.ORG has binaires for many unix platforms



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• AIX

• software.watson.ibm.com
• AIX toolbox for Linux applications is IBM's web page on software that they have ported to AIX from Linux. I'm not sure why they make reference to Linux (other than the fact that IBM is now backing Linux) because it's pretty much freeware that is not particularly Linux specific.
• service.boulder.ibm.com - you can get APARs (patches) from here.
• For support you might have to upload some diagnostic files to testcase.boulder.ibm.com
• UCLA maintains an AIX Public Domain Software Library containing ports of many unix freeware items to AIX (many binaries too).
• BULL's Freeware/Shareware archive for AIX [4.1, 4.3] and Bull's German Web Server have freeware and shareware.



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• Linux

• ftp.redhat.com RedHat has dethrowned Slackware as the most popular Linux distribution. RedHat runs an FTP and Web site where you can get the latest updates.
• University of North Carolina's Metalab server - once a sunsite (a bastion of sun realated information), lately metalib has had more linux stuff on it than sun stuff. You can FTP or come in via HTTP.
• Linux Online's Applications page.
• Source Forge - an major source for Open Source software. As Linux is Open Source, there is a lot here that is geared towards Linux.



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• MacOS X / Darwin

• Apple has a download page for MacOS X.
• Fink is not so much an FTP site as it is a tool that will automate the downloading and compling of freeware that has been ported to MacOS X.
• DarwinPorts
• Get DarwinPorts
• Downloads
• Ports
• Freshmeat's page on MacOS X Projects



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• Macintosh / MacOS 9 (or earlier)

• Mac.Org
• Macinsearch's Shareware Links