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Libtirpc is a port of Suns Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux. It's being developed by the Bull GNU/Linux NFSv4 project. The upstream git tree is at: git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/libtirpc
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PowerShell
Command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET
Powershell is a cross-platform, task-based command-line shell and scripting language that helps rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows) and processes. It works well with existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data, REST APIs and object models. PowerShell was developed by Microsoft as a task management and configuration management framework. Powershell is designed to let you manage computers from the command line and improve the command-line and scripting environment. -
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BepInEx
Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework
Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework. BepInEx is a plugin / modding framework for Unity Mono, IL2CPP, and .NET framework games (XNA, FNA, MonoGame, etc.) Stable builds are released once a new iteration of BepInEx is considered feature-complete. They have the least bugs, but some newest features might not be available. Bleeding edge builds are available on BepisBuilds. Bleeding edge builds are always the latest builds of the source code. Thus they are the opposite to stable builds: they have the newest features and bugfixes available, but usually tend to be the most buggy. Therefore you should use bleeding edge builds only if you are asked to or if you want to preview the upcoming version of BepInEx. Some games require some additional changes in order to work around specific limitations of different Unity versions. -
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Hibernate
An object relational-mapping (ORM) library for Java
The Hibernate projects offer a suite of powerful Java libraries to work with data. It is best known for Hibernate ORM, which provides relational persistence for Java models and is an implementation of the Jakarta Persistence specification. Hibernate projects do not consistently release binaries or documentation to SourceForge anymore. For up-to-date information, refer to the Hibernate website: * Hibernate ORM: https://hibernate.org/orm/ * Hibernate Validator: https://hibernate.org/validator/ * Hibernate Search: https://hibernate.org/search/ That website will also be updated with newer projects, such as Hibernate Reactive. -
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Laravel
The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework -
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REFramework
Scripting platform, modding framework and VR support for RE Engine
A mod framework, scripting platform, and modding tool for RE Engine games. Inspired by and uses code from Kanan. Supports Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil Village, Devil May Cry 5, Monster Hunter Rise. Lua Scripting API (All games), VR, Generic 6DOF VR support for all games, motion controls for RE2/RE3 (RE7 and RE8 motion controls are still WIP!), first person (RE2, RE3), free camera (All games), scene timescale (All games), manual flashlight (RE2, RE3, RE8), FOV slider & vignette disabler (RE2, RE3, RE8). -
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StabilityMatrix
Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion
StabilityMatrix is a project that helps organize, evaluate, and compare generative AI models and their behavior across prompts, datasets, or configuration settings. It provides a framework to run experiments systematically—capturing inputs, model configurations, outputs, and metrics—so researchers and practitioners can reason about differences in quality, robustness, and failure modes. The repository often bundles tooling for automated prompt sweeping, scoring heuristics (such as diversity, coherence, or task-specific metrics), and visualization helpers to make comparisons interpretable. This approach is useful for model selection, prompt engineering, and benchmarking new checkpoints against baseline models under reproducible conditions. By turning ad-hoc tests into tracked experiments, StabilityMatrix reduces bias, surfaces subtle regressions, and accelerates iteration when tuning generative systems. -
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Flask
The Python micro framework for building web applications
Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework designed to help developers get started with their web applications quickly and easily with the ability to scale up to complex applications. Being a “micro” framework does not mean that your whole web application must fit into a single Python file (although it can) or that it be limited; rather it means that Flask aims to keep the core simple but extensible. Flask offers suggestions, but it won’t make any decisions for you such as what database to use or what dependencies or project layout to choose. You get to choose the tools and libraries you want to use, so Flask can be everything you need and nothing you don’t. Flask has become one of the most popular Python web application frameworks, and has amassed a great number of extensions provided by the community that make adding new functionality easy. -
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Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans is much more than a text editor. It highlights source code syntactically and semantically, lets you easily refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools. Apache NetBeans provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications in Java, PHP and many other languages. Apache NetBeans can be installed on all operating systems that support Java, i.e, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. Write Once, Run Anywhere, applies to NetBeans too. -
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Selenium
Browser automation framework and ecosystem
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well. If you want to create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests, scale and distribute scripts across many environments, then you want to use Selenium WebDriver, a collection of language specific bindings to drive a browser - the way it is meant to be driven. If you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts, create scripts to aid in automation-aided exploratory testing, then you want to use Selenium IDE; a Chrome and Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. If you want to scale by distributing and running tests on several machines and manage multiple environments from a central point. -
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Volatility
An advanced memory forensics framework
Volatility is a widely used open-source framework for analyzing memory captures (RAM dumps) from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. It enables investigators and malware analysts to extract process lists, network connections, DLLs, strings, artifacts, and more. Volatility supports many plugins for detecting hidden processes, malware, rootkits, and event tracing. It’s essential in digital forensics and incident response workflows. -
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EhViewer
EhViewer overhauled with Material Design 3, Jetpack Compose and more
EhViewer fork is dedicated to lightweight and high-performance. -
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golangci-lint
Fast linters Runner for Go
golangci-lint is a fast Go linters runner. It runs linters in parallel, uses caching, supports yaml config, has integrations with all major IDE and has dozens of linters included. ⚡ Very fast: runs linters in parallel, reuses Go build cache and caches analysis results. Yaml-based configuration. Integrations with VS Code, Sublime Text, GoLand, GNU Emacs, Vim, Atom, GitHub Actions. A lot of linters included, no need to install them. Minimum number of false positives because of tuned default settings. Nice output with colors, source code lines and marked identifiers. -
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Tailwind CSS
A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development
Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML. A utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup. Utility classes help you work within the constraints of a system instead of littering your stylesheets with arbitrary values. They make it easy to be consistent with color choices, spacing, typography, shadows, and everything else that makes up a well-engineered design system. Because Tailwind is so low-level, it never encourages you to design the same site twice. Even with the same color palette and sizing scale, it's easy to build the same component with a completely different look in the next project. Tailwind automatically removes all unused CSS when building for production, which means your final CSS bundle is the smallest it could possibly be. In fact, most Tailwind projects ship less than 10kB of CSS to the client. -
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compress
Optimized Go Compression Packages
This package provides various compression algorithms. zstandard compression and decompression in pure Go. S2 is a high-performance replacement for Snappy. Optimized deflate packages which can be used as a dropin replacement for gzip, zip and zlib. snappy is a drop-in replacement for github.com/golang/snappy offering better compression and concurrent streams. huff0 and FSE implementations for raw entropy encoding. gzhttp Provides client and server wrappers for handling gzipped requests efficiently. pgzip is a separate package that provides a very fast parallel gzip implementation. Stream decompression is now faster on asynchronous since the goroutine allocation much more effectively splits the workload. On typical streams, this will typically use 2 cores fully for decompression. When a stream has finished decoding no goroutines will be left over, so decoders can now safely be pooled and still be garbage collected. -
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teams-for-linux
Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client
This is an unofficial Microsoft Teams client. The official client for Linux is rumored to be retired by end of 2022. Please do report bugs and questions in the issues section. We will try to attend them at the earliest. PRs and suggestions are welcomed. We will continue to support the community. Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron. Binaries are available under releases for AppImage, rpm, deb, snap, and tar.gz. In the case of AppImage, we recommend using AppImageLauncher for the best desktop experience. Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the installing snapd documentation. Generate an embeddable card to be shared on external websites. -
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Pentaho Data Integration
Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL ) a.k.a Kettle
Pentaho Data Integration uses the Maven framework. Project distribution archive is produced under the assemblies module. Core implementation, database dialog, user interface, PDI engine, PDI engine extensions, PDI core plugins, and integration tests. Maven, version 3+, and Java JDK 1.8 are requisites. Use of the Pentaho checkstyle format (via mvn checkstyle:check and reviewing the report) and developing working Unit Tests helps to ensure that pull requests for bugs and improvements are processed quickly. In addition to the unit tests, there are integration tests that test cross-module operation. -
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Hugo
The world’s fastest framework for building websites
Hugo is a popular, fast and flexible open source static site generator written in Go. It’s designed for speed and flexibility, while also being very easy to use. Hugo has the amazing ability to render a typical, moderately-sized website in just a fraction of a second. It takes Hugo around 1 millisecond to render each piece of content, making it the fastest tool of its kind. Hugo supports unlimited content types, and ships with pre-made templates to make SEO, analytics and many other functions quick and easy to achieve. It’s got a robust theming system, capable of producing even the most complex websites. Hugo works well with just about any kind of website, be it a blog, tumble or doc. It works on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. -
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Radare2
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
A free/libre toolchain for easing several low-level tasks like forensics, software reverse engineering, exploiting, and debugging. It is composed by a bunch of libraries (which are extended with plugins) and programs that can be automated with almost any programming language. It is recommended to install it from git, alternatively, you can pick the last release (every 6 weeks) from Github. Batch, Commandline, visual, and panels interactive modes. Embedded webserver with js scripting and WebUI. Assemble and disassemble a large list of CPUs. Runs on Windows and any other UNIX flavor out there. Analyze and emulate code with ESIL. Native debugger and GDB, WINDBG, QNX, and FRIDA. Navigate ASCII-art control flow graphs. Ability to patch binaries, and modify code or data. Search for patterns, magic headers, and function signatures. Easy to extend and modify. Commandline, C API, script with r2pipe in any language. -
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dotnet sdk
Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects
Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI. There are no fees or licensing costs, including for commercial use. .NET is open-source and cross-platform, with free development tools for Windows, Linux, and macOS. .NET is supported by Microsoft. Microsoft ships official releases that are built and tested on Microsoft-maintained servers in Azure and supported just like any Microsoft product. .NET is open source and we are very thankful for the many contributions it receives from the community. To test your locally built SDK, run eng\dogfood.cmd after building. That script starts a new Powershell with the environment configured to redirect SDK resolution to your build. -
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JUnit 5
Programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM
The 5th major version of the programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM. JUnit 5 is the next generation of JUnit. The goal is to create an up-to-date foundation for developer-side testing on the JVM. This includes focusing on Java 8 and above, as well as enabling many different styles of testing. Official CI build server for JUnit 5. Used to perform quick checks on submitted pull requests and for build matrices including the latest released OpenJDK and early access builds of the next OpenJDK. The JUnit Platform serves as a foundation for launching testing frameworks on the JVM. It also defines the TestEngine API for developing a testing framework that runs on the platform. Furthermore, the platform provides a Console Launcher to launch the platform from the command line and the JUnit Platform Suite Engine for running a custom test suite using one or more test engines on the platform. First-class support for the JUnit Platform also exists in popular IDEs. -
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Next.js
The React Framework
Next.js is the React framework for lightweight apps, static websites, pre-rendered apps and more. It solves the most common problems associated with building a complete web application with React, such as those involving code bundling and transforming, production automizations, page rendering and having to write server-side code. Next.js offers a best in class “Developer Experience” through such capabilities as pre-rendering, single command static exporting, automatic code-splitting, hot code reloading and many other great features. It is fully extensible and ready for production. It’s no wonder Next.js is used in tens of thousands of production-facing websites and web applications from some of the world’s biggest brands. -
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MAME
MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework
MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus. The MAME project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, 2 (GPL-2.0), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses. -
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wxPython
A wrapper for the cross-platform, GUI API toolkit wxWidgets
A set of Python extension modules that wrap the cross-platform GUI classes from wxWidgets. -
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Phalcon
High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension
Its innovative architecture makes Phalcon the fastest PHP framework ever built! Developers do not need to know C to use Phalcon. Its functionality is exposed as PHP classes and interfaces under the Phalcon namespace, ready to be used. Zephir/C extensions are loaded together with PHP one time on the web server's daemon start process. Classes and functions provided by the extension are ready to use for any application. The code is compiled and isn't interpreted because it's already compiled to a specific platform and processor. Thanks to its low-level architecture and optimizations Phalcon provides the lowest overhead for MVC-based applications. Build single and multi-module applications with ease and pleasure. Using the file structure, scheme and patterns you already know. Phalcon is built upon a powerful yet easy to understand and use pattern called Dependency Injection. Initialize or define services once, and use them virtually anywhere throughout the application.
