List of free software project directories

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Free software Portal

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/
Open Source Free Projects http://www.opensourcescripts.com/
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
PHPClasses http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP
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
ohloh http://www.ohloh.net/
WEBI http://www.webi.org/ FOSS/FLOSS Directory
CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/ provided by Microsoft
Free Software Directory http://directory.fsf.org/

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