Free the Software!
Free Software hosting for core toolchain and developer tools
Did you know about:
builder.sourceware.org,
patchwork.sourceware.org,
inbox.sourceware.org and
snapshots.sourceware.org?
News/Announcements
- March 29, 2024
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Sourceware hosts are not affected by the latest xz backdoor.
We have reset the
builder.sourceware.org
containers of debian-testing, fedora-rawhide and opensuse-tumbleweed.
These containers however didn't have ssh installed, were running on
isolated VMs on separate machines from our main hosts, snapshots and
backup servers.
- March 26, 2024
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Sourceware 2024 - The Plan.
In 2024 we want to concentrate on isolating and scaling. In the last two years we doubled the number of machines that we run the services on. Some of the services are already setup in containers or on isolated VMs. But most of the services are still isolated through traditional unix mechanisms. Moving those into containers or VMs will help scaling, making it easy to move onto separate physical machines. It will also provide security in depth.
- February 27, 2024
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Sourceware infrastructure community updates for Q1 2024.
Sourceware now has an official donation page.
StarFive VisionFive-2 RISC-V boards for builder.sourceware.org.
server2 and server3 disk drive updates.
Upgrading project websites from CVS to GIT.
Sourceware @ Fosdem.
Security policy updates for a CVE system out of control.
Summer of Code.
- February 01, 2024
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StarFive has donated 4 VisionFive-2 risc-v boards with 8GB, 4-core
JH7110 supporting the RV64GC ISA for the CI running on
builder.sourceware.org.
- January 12, 2024
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One of the drives in server2 broke down. It is part of a 10 drive raid6 setup.
So we are fine for now. raid6 can take 2 bad disks. We also have a full mirror
on server3. Which has a similar raid6 setup.
We ordered 3 new disks, one as replacement for the bad disk and a spare for
server2 and server3 in case of future drive failures.
We have a fund for replacing hardware when needed. If you want to help out
keeping everything running smoothly you can
donate.
See the news and announcements page for
other new (or formerly new) things.
Announcements, notices about downtime and temporary issues with our
network are also posted to the fediverse @[email protected]
Get on the free software announcements mailing list!
Occasionally asked questions:
- I can't access the ftp site. Mirrors?
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There are several sites which mirror the
free software ftp site. You
can see the full list on the free software mirrors
list page.
- What is your true name?
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sourceware.org. But I am also
called cygwin.org,
coretoolchain.org,
dwarfstd.org,
elfutils.org,
gcc.gnu.org,
gnu.toolchain.dev,
systemtap.org,
and valgrind.org.
During the dot-com boom years I was called sources.redhat.com
and sourceware.cygnus.com.
- How are the projects chosen?
Can I host my free software project there?
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Currently, we are pleased to be able to provide a home for various
core toolchain and development tool offerings and certain
GNU Project
packages such as
GCC, GDB, glibc,
Binutils, and others. However, we currently only have the capacity to
host a limited number of projects.
So, while it doesn't hurt to
ask if your project
can be hosted here, we do have to be selective in what we offer.
With luck, this will change soon, as we are contemplating increasing the capacity
of both the sourceware.org system and the internet connection that it uses to
communicate with the outside world.
- I need an account on sourceware for git/svn/cvs write access to project XYZ?
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We have an XYZ Project? Cool!
Ok, you need write access for a project hosted on Sourceware you say? Well, first you'll need to have your request approved by the project maintainer(s). Once they give their ok, you can use our handy dandy little form and we'll process your request. This will provide you with an account on sourceware.org. If, in the future, you want to
contribute to the repository of another project (remember that sourceware.org, cygwin.com and gcc.gnu.org share projects), have a responsible party send email to the admin-requests mailing list at
this site requesting that you be added to the project. Do not fill this form out again.
- Do you have a privacy statement for this site?
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Hey, why not.
We're not recording anything about you, short of the normal web logs
which show what pages are being downloaded by what host. We'd never
use any of the mailing list subscription information for anything
other than the normal distribution of e-mail to that list.
We are not out to get you.
Oh, from time to time we do generate some aggregate reports but those
don't identify you individually, so stop worrying.
- A lot of the software here is compressed in the .bz2 format.
What is that?
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bzip2 (".bz2") is a compression program similar to gzip
(".gz"), but it produces much smaller files than gzip. You
can get the source for bzip2, or pre-built binaries for most platforms,
from the bzip2 home page.
Most recent free software distributions include bzip2, so you may already
have it on your system.
- Is it true that the first lunar landing was faked?
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Of course. Everyone knows that. See the PBS documentary
about it, Capricorn One.
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