C-LINUX

Heritage project

GRO File Release Archive

Originally at gro.clinux.org/frs

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.

Projects that lived under /frs/

The FRS was home to releases for many Chinese-community-maintained tools: vimcdoc (the Chinese Vim documentation translation), foo_uie_lyrics (a Foobar2000 lyrics-display plugin), ircp-tray (a Linux infrared file-transfer tool, referenced from German Ubuntu wiki), Linuxdown (a multi-threaded download utility), Chinese-localised PuTTY packages, and SkyEye (the ARM emulator). Each project had its own group_id and release_id under the FRS.

Most-cited paths

The download.php URLs (with numeric file IDs) were embedded in tutorial blogs, university course pages, and forum threads from Germany, Brazil, and across China. group_id=737 corresponded to the foo_uie_lyrics plugin; group_id=704 corresponded to ircp-tray; the SkyEye release IDs in the 1400-range corresponded to the 1.2-RC series.

Where the archives live now

Most of the projects that lived under gro.clinux.org/frs have either moved to GitHub or live as historical archives on SourceForge. The Wayback Machine has substantial coverage of the original FRS pages — the snapshot captures from 2007–2012 are the most useful for finding specific old release downloads.