Top Document: SGI apps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: -2- Where can I find software already compiled for SGIs? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Silicon Graphics can tell you about their own and third-party commercial software. Call SGI Direct for more information (see the misc FAQ for phone numbers) or look around on SGI's WWW server, Silicon Surf (http://www.sgi.com/ or its mirrors; see the misc FAQ), particularly under "Surf Shop" and "Subsidiaries and Partners". The best general reference for finding sources on the Internet is Jonathan Kamens' "Finding Sources" document. It can be FTPed from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/. Read it carefully before you post a question about finding software ... because half of your answers will be "look in Archie" anyway, and "Finding Sources" tells you how to do that. Useful general archive sites include ftp://ftp.x.org/ for X software (particularly in the /contrib and /R5contrib directories) and X itself (in /pub), ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ for GNU software, and ftp://ftp.uu.net/ and ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/ for nearly anything, including archives of many Usenet sources newsgroups and mirrors of the aforementioned GNU and X archives. The best SGI-specific reference is Bill Henderson's <billh@hampton.sgi.com> SGI anonymous FTP list. (Look in the misc FAQ under "WWW pages" and "network-accessible documents".) Good places to look, if you just feel like looking, are ftp://ftp.sgi.com/ and ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/, where are kept any number of freebies from the folks at SGI, http://www.sgi.com/Fun/free/, a collection of freeware from SGI and elsewhere, and ftp://swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov/, a site particularly well-stocked with SGI-related materials. SGI publishes a freeware CD-ROM with sources and binaries for popular free software; it is included with new systems and its most recent versions are available on the web at http://freeware.sgi.com/ which is updated frequently. Finally, see the next question for places to find precompiled software and questions (in this and the other SGI FAQs) which discuss particular packages for pointers to those packages. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI apps Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: -2- Where can I find software already compiled for SGIs? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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