Open Source

• FTP server at MKS - contains autoconf, bison, emacs, flex, m4, gmake, perl, rcs, samba
• Apache source code distributions are available at Apache.org.
• FTP server at gnu.org - contains autoconf, automake, bash, diffutils, findutils, groff, gzip, less, patch. The gnu.org site is a good place to find information about Open Source software. Source is available, but OS/390 installation may not work for all products.
• JPEG library at Independent JPEG Group.
• lynx browser
• CVS for MVS
• The latest source version for PERL can be found at perl.com
• GCCMVS is a freely available 31-bit mainframe compiler
• Home page of the Open Source Initiative
• The online book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution is available online at O'Reilly
• SourceForge - another good source for Open Source.
• gnats, the GNU bug tracking system
• Eclipse - an open source "universal tool platform"
• z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler and Emulator Project
• z/Cobol - Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler
• Gnu tools for z/OS
• Open Source Software for z/OS - a wiki
• Open Source Usability - guidance on usability for open source developers.