This site contains a collection of open source and GNU (R) softwares
built for AIX 5L and
6.
They run on any platform supporting either one AIX
version or both.
Some tools have one package per AIX version but in
most cases, a package built for an AIX 5 release (5.2 or 5.3) will
also run on upper releases thanks to upward binary compatibility.
Packages for AIX 6 are specific.
These softwares provide a set of tools both for Linux appplication
developers and Linux system administrators. All packages are
built using the RPM format.
Thanks to the strong affinity between Linux and AIX
for applications and to AIX long history of standards compliance, it is
usually easy to rebuild Linux applications for AIX.
The Open Source Packages for AIX will help for compiling and packaging
Linux applications on AIX systems, developing new applications for AIX
using the GNU environment, and running popular software provided in
Linux distributions.
These packages can be organized in three main software areas (not all
are listed here) :
- Web 2.0 : Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, Ruby, Memcached,
Squid,...
- Development : gcc, gdb, Tcl/Tk, autoconf, automake,
libtool
and some utilities : bash2, coreutils, binutils, tar, cpio, patch,...
- Strategic applications : rpm, db, window managers,
libraries, graphic applications...
Some open source licenses (such as the GPL) require that we also make
the source available.
Only those sources with licenses requiring source redistribution are
found at this site.
Developers building their own rpm images may also be interested in the
spec files
and
patches.
(updated on 2008/02/12 by
our
team )