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The following is a list of notable websites that listfree software projects. These directories and repositories of free software differ from software hosting facilities (orsoftware forges) in the number of features they offer and the type of collaboration they are designed to promote.
| Name | Description, focus |
|---|---|
| SourceForge | largest directory, >500K projects[1] |
| Apache Software Foundation | MostlyJava[2] |
| Free Software Directory[3] | About 17000 packages with 386 GNU-packages and 97 High Priority Projects[4] |
| Open Hub (FormerlyOhloh) | |
| Libraries.io | Open source libraries, frameworks and tools |
| ibiblio | Open source software |
| List of free and open-source software packages | |
| AlternativeTo | General: can filter by license type "Open Source" |
| sourcehut[5] |
| Name | Description, focus |
|---|---|
| CPAN | Perl |
| CTAN | TeX |
| CRAN | R |
| Gambas Software Farm | Gambas |
| JBoss | Enterprise Java |
| LuaRocks | Lua |
| PEAR | PHP |
| Node Package Manager | Node.js |
| Python Package Index | Python |
| Hackage | Haskell |
| RubyGems | Ruby |
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