# Software archives

Date: 2021-07-25 19:20:39 +08:00Date modified: 2021-10-09 17:56:31 +08:00

- Software Heritage is an ambitious project archiving all of the source code of humanity. Has a browsable interface of the total archive.

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

- Arch Linux has an archive that keeps the snapshots, packages, and repos for a few years before uploading it to their historical archive.

- Nix package manager has a binary cache. According to one of the contributors, it makes up 120TB as of 2021-07-25.

- Guix package manager has a binary cache primarily maintained with its homegrown continuous integration software.

- roam:F-Droid has an archive for its compiled apps. From one of their comments, it is sitting at ~390GB as of 2021-07-25.

- FOSS Torrents is a torrent repository of precompiled software projects.