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#+title: Software archives
#+date: 2021-07-25 19:20:39 +08:00
#+date_modified: 2021-10-09 17:56:31 +08:00
#+language: en


- [[id:9c85ffb2-fc90-4b38-abce-f0425a2b79de][Software Heritage]] is an ambitious project archiving all of the source code of humanity.
  Has a [[https://archive.softwareheritage.org/][browsable interface]] of the total archive.

- roam:archive.org has [[https://archive.org/details/software][a dedicated section for software]].
  They are especially nice for scouring historical versions of software.

- [[id:f3f1201a-9fb9-4481-981f-5f50f8982a5e][Arch Linux]] has an [[https://archive.archlinux.org/][archive]] that keeps the snapshots, packages, and repos for a few years before uploading it to their [[https://archive.org/details/archlinuxarchive][historical archive]].

- [[id:3b3fdcbf-eb40-4c89-81f3-9d937a0be53c][Nix package manager]] has [[https://cache.nixos.org/][a binary cache]].
  According to [[https://chaos.social/@davidak/106640211327736471][one of the contributors]], it makes up 120TB as of 2021-07-25.

- [[id:be917383-84c4-4bf5-9ca0-b04bfb778f4f][Guix package manager]] has a binary cache primarily maintained with its [[https://ci.guix.gnu.org/][homegrown continuous integration software]].

- roam:F-Droid has an archive for its compiled apps.
  From [[https://mastodon.technology/@fdroidorg/106635571616898675][one of their comments]], it is sitting at ~390GB as of 2021-07-25.

- [[https://fosstorrents.com/][FOSS Torrents]] is a torrent repository of precompiled software projects.
