A list of software we would like to have in Ports collection but nobody did have time or skill to write a port yet. Everyone is encouraged to edit this page.
New ports
New ports you would like to have in the tree, if possible with more details about the procedure (expected difficulties and so), a partially working port skeleton if available and/or who is working on it if anyone.
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Allegro is a game programming library for C/C++ developers distributed freely. |
There already is an allegro and allegro-devel port. This would be for allegro version 5 |
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Cinelerra is the most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux/Unix. |
unfinished port available in fidaj repository |
fidaj (FreeBSD Forums), decke@ |
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A complete development stack, including compiler, debugger, assembler, runtimes and standard libraries that appears to be fastest opensource compiler suite available. |
preliminary port for testing ; path64-suite on github ; current snapshot for testing |
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Etherpad is a hosted web service that allows really real-time document collaboration for groups of users. Google Inc. bought this software and released it under an open source license. |
Apparently, an older version (2.7) of lang/scala is required to run it properly. Helpful installation instructions are all over the web: here, a FreeBSD-specific one, an enhanced version on github, instructions in the etherpad wiki |
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A filemanager in your Firefox browser |
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Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. |
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The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. |
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An open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system. |
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Imprudence Viewer is a SecondLife / OpenSim compatible viewer with a focus on usability, privacy and reputability. |
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a opensource enterprise-level database management system, providing support for variety of programming languages and enviropments. |
It's rather complex task as Ingres has a lot of OS-depended parts and it's highly optimized for the target OS threading model. |
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Intel® compiler suites offer industry-leading C++ and Fortran compilers with optimization features and multithreading capabilities, highly optimized performance libraries, and error-checking, security, and profiling tools. |
11.1.075 exists in pkgsrc using Linux binary emulation, older versions where ported to FreeBSD and a porter should have a look how it was done there, netchild@ is available for questions regarding the old versions |
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An open source web-based hosting control panel capable of managing multiple servers from one control panel |
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An open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel |
experimental port and installation steps are available |
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JDownloader is a download manager, written in Java, which allows the automatic download of files and split files from one-click hosting sites such as Rapidshare and Megaupload. |
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The first PlayStation Portable emulator that is written in JAVA. Most people think java is too slow. But Shadow and his team has proven us wrong. |
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The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java. |
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Me TV is a GTK desktop application for watching digital television services that use the DVB standard. |
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MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called "transcoder". It converts the video clips from proprietary (and usually encrypted) disc into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way. |
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mplayer2 is an advanced general-purpose video player. A fork of the original MPlayer project, it contains significant further development and supports a number of features not available in other Unix players. |
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An open source clone of Evernote which is a popular note-taking and web-clipping application. |
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Observium is an autodiscovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more. |
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OpenIKEv2 is an open source IKEv2 implementation written in C++. |
stuck in libopenikev2_impl linuxisms; libopenikev2 compiles okay. |
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An IaaS cloud computing project by Rackspace Cloud and NASA, written in Python, and available under an Apache License. It is also the core for Ubuntu cloud foundation technology. |
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PlayStation 2 emulator |
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Open source Business Intelligence Suite, including Reporting, Analysis, Dashboards, Data Mining and a Business Intelligence Platform. |
Known to work on FreeBSD. Open Office has optional support for this. |
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Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. |
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An integrated development environment (IDE) for R. |
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Second Life client |
is a 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents. They provide the source code for their second life client under the GPL2. |
There exist instructions and basic FreeBSD port already, but the port needs some serious attention, and the dependencies are obsolete. |
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SOFA is a user-friendly statistics, analysis, & reporting program. It is free, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output. |
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SOGo is fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards. SOGo provides a rich AJAX-based Web interface and supports multiple native clients through the use of standard protocols such as CalDAV, CardDAV and GroupDAV. |
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A simple C++ library for constructing general Neural networks |
needs Vedvarsha |
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Torrentflux-b4rt allows you to control your internet downloads / transfers from anywhere using a highly configurable web based front end. |
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Provides effective control of virtual machines of VirtualBox on a headless server. |
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Vedvarsha is a program that can be used for handwriting script recogniton and OCR |
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A full-featured e-mail and groupware solution, focused towards clients using the MAPI standard. |
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Zimbra Collaboration Suite is an enterprise-class open source email, calendar and collaboration server. |
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Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, IPTV, and Analog video (V4L) as input sources. |
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RDP client for the GNOME desktop. |
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A brand new desktop environment based on QT that is tailored for speed, simplicity and ease of use. It has anything you would expect from a desktop environment, and can work on weak machines. |
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Nonportable
The following applications are not portable at the moment. This can change over time but most of the time only with cooperation from the upstream project.
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Name of application + link to website |
What does it do? |
Why nonportable? |
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We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We'd love your help! |
Linux support was dropped recently. See the FreeBSD.org Forum Thread |
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obscure fusefs compat and SSL issues, i.e. it works, but not ready to be ported just yet |
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Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval. |
waiting for a useable release |
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A set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images. It can access nearly any type of filesystem including: ext2/3/4, XFS, btrfs, VFAT, NTFS, UFS in various containers like raw, disks, qcow2, VirtualBox vdi, VMWare VMDK, CD and DVD ISOs, SD cards and dozens more |
Seems to be fedora only software: needs febootstrap etc, however software may be able to be ported given febootstrap requirements |