# Download *Boxes*

*Boxes* is free software under the <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html#TOC1">GNU General Public License</A> (GNU GPL), version 2.

The current release is **version 1.1.1**. For older revisions, feel free to browse the [release history](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/wiki/Release-History).


## Sources

The *boxes* sources are now all on GitHub, including previous releases:

[https://github.com/{{ site.github }}](https://github.com/{{ site.github }})

For the (historical) record, the source of the outdated version 1.1 is also on [metalab](ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text/boxes-1.1.src.tar.gz) (FTP).


## Binaries

The author supports binaries for intel/linux and intel/win32. *Boxes* has been compiled on a very wide variety of platforms, and for older releases, some of these binaries are available via the [release history](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/wiki/Release-History). If you have binaries for different and/or new platforms, please send them in!

**Windows** and **Linux** binary download:
[https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/releases/latest](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/releases/latest)

**MacOS X**
According to *boxes* user *Michel*, *boxes* can be installed on MacOS X (32bit) by simply typing `brew install boxes`. (Information of October 3, 2012) 


## Miscellaneous

  - The current [list of available box designs]({{ site.baseurl }}/box-designs.txt).
    Want to see your design in the official config file? Submit it as a [pull request](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/pulls) on GitHub. If this seems too complicated, or you are not an IT person, feel free to send email, too. Emails take much longer to be processed, though.
  - A <A HREF="https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/issues/4" target="_blank">vim syntax
    file</A> to enable the vim editor to use syntax highlighting with *boxes* config files (beta state).