Archive

Heritage projects.

Working summaries of the projects that lived on the *.clinux.org subdomain network in the 2000s and early 2010s. Each page covers what the project was, where the inbound link record came from, and where the modern equivalent lives.

• vcd.gro.clinux.org

  vimcdoc — Vim Chinese Documentation→

  vimcdoc was a community translation of the official Vim documentation into simplified Chinese. It lived for years at vcd.gro.clinux.org and was the most-downloaded resource for Chinese-language Vim users in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

• chmsee.gro.clinux.org

  ChmSee — CHM Document Viewer for Linux→

  ChmSee was a GTK-based viewer for Microsoft Compiled HTML Help files (.chm) on Linux. It lived at chmsee.gro.clinux.org and was the standard CHM reader recommendation in Chinese-language Linux distribution guides for several years.

• lists.gro.clinux.org · gro.clinux.org/frs (skyeye)

  SkyEye — ARM Architecture Emulator→

  SkyEye was an open-source instruction-set simulator for ARM and other embedded architectures. The mailing list lived at lists.gro.clinux.org and the release archive lived under gro.clinux.org/frs. It was widely used in Chinese university embedded-systems coursework.

• whlug.clinux.org

  WHLUG — Wuhan Linux User Group→

  WHLUG (武汉 Linux 联盟 / Wuhan Linux User Group) was the regional Linux user group for Wuhan, China. The group's site lived at whlug.clinux.org and was the canonical entry point in Debian's Chinese-project-related-links directory and on similar resource lists.

• javaresearch.gro.clinux.org

  JavaResearch — Chinese JDK Documentation→

  JavaResearch hosted Chinese-language documentation and source-code references for the Java Development Kit. The most-cited URL — the Sun JDK 1.4.0 java.lang.String source-code annotation page — was referenced from German-language Java forums and Chinese-language tutorial sites for years.

• diy-os.gro.clinux.org

  DIY-OS — Hobbyist Operating System Project→

  DIY-OS was a Chinese-language hobbyist operating-system development project. The site at diy-os.gro.clinux.org hosted documentation, code samples, and discussion materials for community members building toy kernels and learning OS internals.

• xchina.clinux.org

  XChina — Linux Software Portal→

  XChina was a Chinese-language Linux software directory and download portal in the mid-2000s. It catalogued Linux applications, distribution releases, and developer tools with Chinese-language descriptions and installation notes.

• wrc.gro.clinux.org

  WRC — Tool Mirror (PuTTY and SSH utilities)→

  WRC was a download mirror under the gro.clinux.org infrastructure that hosted Windows tooling for Chinese-speaking Linux users — most prominently a Chinese-localised PuTTY package referenced in tutorials about connecting from Windows to Linux servers.

• gro.clinux.org/frs

  GRO File Release Archive→

  gro.clinux.org was a GForge-style project hosting platform — the Chinese Linux community's equivalent of SourceForge in the mid-2000s. The /frs/ (File Release System) URLs hosted versioned download archives for dozens of community projects.

• gro.clinux.org/frs/?group_id=737

  foo_uie_lyrics — Foobar2000 Lyrics Plugin→

  foo_uie_lyrics was a community-developed lyrics-display plugin for the Foobar2000 audio player. The release archive lived under gro.clinux.org/frs/ at group_id=737 and was widely cited in the Foobar2000 international wiki and in Eastern-European Foobar2000 customisation forums.

• gro.clinux.org/frs/?group_id=704

  ircp-tray — Linux Infrared File Transfer→

  ircp-tray was a Linux GUI front-end for OBEX-over-IrDA file transfer — the small system-tray applet that let Linux users send and receive files to and from infrared-equipped phones and PDAs in the mid-2000s. The German Ubuntu user wiki (wiki.ubuntuusers.de) referenced it as the recommended IrDA file-transfer tool.

• gro.clinux.org/frs/download.php/1015 (linuxdown)

  Linuxdown — Multi-Threaded Download Tool→

  Linuxdown was a Chinese-community-developed command-line download manager that supported up to 30 parallel threads per download — a meaningful speed improvement over wget on the slower internet connections of the mid-2000s.