List of free software project directories

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A list of websites that list free software projects.

Name	Website	Description/Focus
SourceForge	http://sourceforge.net/
FreshMeat	http://freshmeat.net/
Apache Software Foundation	http://apache.org	Mostly Java
CPAN	http://cpan.org	Perl
CTAN	http://ctan.org	Tex
CRAN	http://cran.r-project.org/
BerliOS Developer	http://developer.berlios.de/
java.net Projects	http://community.java.net/projects/
GNU Savannah	http://savannah.gnu.org/ http://savannah.nongnu.org/
RubyForge	http://rubyforge.org/
JavaForge	http://javaforge.com/	Mostly Java. Plugins available for Eclipse (software) and NetBeans
Java-Source.net	http://java-source.net/
OSDir.com	http://www.osdir.com/
O'Reilly CodeZoo	http://www.codezoo.com
Codehaus	http://codehaus.org/	Mostly Java
OpenSymphony	http://www.opensymphony.com/	Java
ObjectWeb	http://objectweb.org/	Enterprise Java; a consortium
JBoss	http://jboss.com/	Enterprise Java
JA-SIG	http://ja-sig.org/	Java; (mostly) for educational institutions
PEAR	http://pear.php.net/	PHP
PHP Classes	http://www.phpclasses.org/
OS Zone	http://oszone.org/
Google Code Hosting	http://code.google.com/hosting/	No full directory; search or browse by tag
MacForge	http://www.macforge.net	Software that works on Macs
doap:store	http://doapstore.org/	Aggregrates projects with published DOAP (RDF) files
Python Cheese Shop	http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi	Python software
OpenSource Translative	http://osstrans.net/	Translations of project descriptions into many languages
Free Statistical Software	http://statpages.org/javasta2.html	Statistical software
Ruby Application Archive	http://raa.ruby-lang.org/	Ruby software
Open source testing tools	http://opensourcetesting.org/	software testing
Open Source as Alternative	http://www.osalt.com/	alternatives to well-known commercial software
SNOW	http://snow.iro.umontreal.ca/	Scheme
JSAN	http://openjsan.org/	JavaScript

[edit] See also

• Comparison of free software hosting facilities