[CODE4LIB] Open Source Repositories

2008-05-16 Thread Carol Bean
I am being a little lazy here, hoping someone else might have already been there, done that. A friend wrote: many of the Open Source applications I tried to build needed lots of little bug fixes from the original source code to get them working. I'm guessing the big Linux distributions usually

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Repositories

2008-05-16 Thread Carol Bean
I probably should clarify that the friend is looking for a place to share what she's already fixed and compiled to run on a low resource machine (both in Windows and Linux) Thanks, Carol On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:52 AM, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carol Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Repositories

2008-05-16 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Carol Bean wrote: I am being a little lazy here, hoping someone else might have already been there, done that. A friend wrote: many of the Open Source applications I tried to build needed lots of little bug fixes from the original source code to get them working. I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Repositories

2008-05-16 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Brenner, Aaron L wrote: To add to Joe's OS-specific list: http://www.sunfreeware.com/ is the place for the Solaris version of what Carol's message describes. Sorry -- I got tied up in package manager type programs ... Aaron's right -- Sun Freeware is probably a better

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Repositories

2008-05-16 Thread Godmar Back
Generally, you won't find a credible site that would allow you to upload unvetted binaries of adapted versions of low-volume software. The obvious risks are just too high. My recommendation would be a personal webpage, hosted on a site that's associated with a real-world institution, and a