Free&Alter Software Distribution

The Free&Alter Software Distribution offers a Free Software distribution downloadable for Solaris, HPUX, and IRIX. It contains 100 of the most popular Free Software applications used in research centers, like the GNU utilities, XEmacs, DDD, the GIMP, and Scilab. Unlike other distributions, it can be installed in the directory of your choice. The installation takes place in an intuitive GUI, and environment variables are easily managed by TkChoice.

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Recent releases

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• 2.0_020715

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•  16 Jul 2002 10:52
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• Minor feature enhancements

Release Notes: ISO images are now available on the FTP site.

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• 2.0

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•  17 May 2002 10:36
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• Initial freshmeat announcement

No changes have been submitted for this release.

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Recent comments

02 Jun 2002 00:48 rfabbri

Very Nice Idea
The idea of Free&Alter is very good. We have an Octane
runing IRIX, and people at the lab keep trying to tweak the
system into a cumbersome GNU/Linux system. We really
lack being able to do a complete, fast, and easy free
software installation. Another promissing feature is the
focus on scientific applications, the ones that everyone
having a workstation works with.
Let's see if this is the long-awaited solution...