List of requests for the creation of FreeBSD Ports of software.
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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Porting status |
Who is working |
Name of application + link to website |
What does it do? |
Current status and useful information for making a port |
Who is currently working on the port |
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A web-based tool for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters which includes support for Hadoop HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, HCatalog, HBase, ZooKeeper, Oozie, Pig and Sqoop. |
I ported this application but has issue https://github.com/Martinfx/FreeBSD-Ports/blob/max-ambari/ambari/Makefile , https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-25758 xmj |
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Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device |
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=267093 @maxfx |
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fuse read-only driver for Apple's File System |
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Kit to give read-only access to Apple's Filesystem |
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Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. |
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A Perl implementation of email authentication standards rolled up into a single easy to use milter. Allows Email Authentication by SPF/DKIM/DMARC etc. |
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BigBlueButton is a web conferencing system designed for online learning. |
Link to the deleted port on freshports.org, newer version has different dependencies |
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Brave browser for Desktop and Laptop |
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Keep your favorite Windows Apps running in MacOS, Linux, Chrome & Android tablets. |
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An open-source data analysis framework used by high energy physics and others. |
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Chipmachine Music Player |
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Cinelerra is the most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux/Unix. |
gmake issues: it ignores assignments to variables supplied in environment, researching |
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Citrix Workspace app for Linux enables users to access virtual desktops and hosted applications delivered by XenDesktop and XenApp (successor to net/citrix_ica) |
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VS Code running on a remote server, accessible through the browser. |
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Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms (https://hackmd.io) |
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The ARM Computer Vision and Machine Learning library is a set of functions optimised for both ARM CPUs and GPUs using SIMD technologies. |
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=267158 @maxfx |
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Couchbase Server is an open-source, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package that is optimized for interactive applications. |
libcouchbase already exists in ports, just not the server part |
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Collaboration suite, encrypted and open-source |
source code repo https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad |
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The DE from linux based Cutefish OS |
Does have WIP install script https://github.com/flashmaster237/cutefish-freebsd |
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Dart is an open-source, scalable programming language, with robust libraries and runtimes, for building web, server and mobile apps. Plays in a similar space to JavaScript and is the basis for Flutter. |
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Multi-platform database tool based on Eclipse |
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Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) depends on the various Deepin Desktop Envrionment packages available in Deepin. |
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File system crawler, storage search engine and storage analytics software powered by Elasticsearch to help visualize and manage your disk space |
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a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust |
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DOSBox fork that DOS-based Windows such as Windows 3.x and Windows 9x are officially supported. |
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Flexible, user expandable 2D animation software |
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Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes. To package with etesync-dav etesync-notes etesync-web |
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web spreadsheet |
NodeJS-based, NodeJS software is very hard to port. |
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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. |
EtherPad Lite is a much improved version and has installation instructions for FreeBSD. |
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Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned. |
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A crossplatform free iptv/stream player |
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Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. |
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=266949 @maxfx |
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Flutter allows building beautiful native apps on iOS and Android from a single codebase. Uses Dart as implementation language. |
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Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. |
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Integrated security information management solution (combines 389 Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS, Dogtag (Certificate System)) |
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High performance distributed in memory database |
Large Gradle built Java project, not too hard to port. |
issue with Could not find method dependencySubstitution() for arguments Issue reported @maxfx |
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A supercharged Git/GitHub command line interface (CLI). An official integration for GitHub and GitHub Enterprise. |
See bug 217484 |
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Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version) |
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Originally based on PostgreSQL 8.2, Pivotal/VMware added a significant number of data warehouse innovations. |
Older PostgreSQL server and client ports should be a good starting point, making sure FreeBSD enhancements are upstreamed at some point. |
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System monitoring dashboard for terminal. Similar to htop, but fancier. |
See bug 266703 |
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The Apache™ Hadoop® project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. |
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https://github.com/Martinfx/FreeBSD-Ports/blob/max-hadoop-update/hadoop3/Makefile @maxfx issue in packages |
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system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online |
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hunter is a fast and lag-free file browser/manager for the terminal |
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Application |
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IDA Pro is a complete integrated development environment. |
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Imprudence Viewer is a SecondLife / OpenSim compatible viewer with a focus on usability, privacy and reputability. |
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An open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel |
experimental port (http://isp-control.net/documentation/doku.php?id=start:installation:freebsd) and installation steps are available |
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An open source web-based hosting control panel capable of managing multiple servers from one control panel |
Bunch of PHP scripts, should be quick to port if time permits |
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A client for QQ and more. |
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Modern Linux has deprecated net-tools in favour of iproute2. Iproute2 is a collection of utilities for controlling TCP / IP networking and traffic control in Linux. |
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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. |
Can be fetched and run manually but is writing to too much subdirectories. Don't know how to configure to write in users home instead. |
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Issue Tracker |
Has been run standalone and should run under container such as Tomcat or Glassfish |
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Note-taking app |
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https://github.com/tagattie/FreeBSD-Electron/tree/master/deskutils/joplin-desktop |
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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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Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. |
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Library for working with LevelDB from Ruby |
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LCARS Desktop Environment or short lcarsde is an open source desktop environment for Linux systems. The main goal for this project is to create a desktop experience that looks somewhat like a LCARS interface. |
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libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images. You can use this for viewing and editing files inside guests, scripting changes to VMs, monitoring disk used/free statistics, creating guests, P2V, V2V, performing backups, cloning VMs, building VMs, formatting disks, resizing disks, and much more. |
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Anti-Virus program partly based on libclamav |
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https://github.com/Martinfx/FreeBSD-Ports/blob/libredefender/libredefender/Makefile, issue in uom library |
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Light Table is a next generation code editor that connects you to your creation with instant feedback. Light Table is very customizable and can display anything a Chromium browser can. |
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shell script to install Linux versions of Brave/Chrome/Edge/Opera/Vivaldi browsers on FreeBSD into Linux (Ubuntu Focal) chroot. |
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LogZilla is a universal log collector. |
See the FreeBSD.org Forum Thread |
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GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for creating windows with OpenGL contexts and receiving input and events. |
It seems to me that it is still possible to port lwjgl while maintaining the same upstream. PR269879, D31119 |
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LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on state of the art algorithms, LuxCoreRender simulates the flow of light according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of photographic quality. |
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A web-based front-end to MailScanner. MailWatch comes with a simple and intuitive Web Interface. Written in PHP and powered by MySQL, browsing incoming and outgoing email is just a click away; color-coded display of recently processed mail make it even easier. |
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A realtime preview MarkDown Editor based on electron. Source code available on GitHub |
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MariaDB MaxScale is a database proxy that extends the high availability, scalability, and security of MariaDB Server while at the same time simplifying application development by decoupling it from underlying database infrastructure. Source code available on GitHub |
required sys/prctl.h is linux specific API |
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Me TV is a DVB – digital video broadcast – viewer based on GTK+3 and GStreamer. (rewrite of Me TV) |
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In response to the needs of researchers for access to real-world mixed integer programs, Robert E. Bixby, E.A. Boyd, and R.R. Indovina created in 1992 the MIPLIB, an electronically available library of both pure and mixed integer programs. Since its introduction, MIPLIB has become a standard test set used to compare the performance of mixed integer optimizers. |
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Apache module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth. |
WIP |
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An open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer by DreamWorks |
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Simple screen recorder that uses mpv-player and GTK. |
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muon is an implementation of the meson build system in c99 with minimal dependencies |
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Provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more. |
Community edition is available under the GPL. |
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Network Forensic Analysis Tool. |
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An open source clone of Evernote which is a popular note-taking and web-clipping application. |
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Automatic PageSpeed optimization module for Nginx |
WIP |
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ngxtop-ce parses your nginx access log and outputs useful, top-like, metrics of your nginx server. So you can tell what is happening with your server in real-time. |
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A simple and nice Python library to create webapps |
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NIPAP tools (nipap, nipap-www and nipap-cli) |
Popupar ip management system. Requested by Tykling on #freebsd-social. |
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Nyxt browser |
Extensible browser written in Common Lisp |
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Application |
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Who is working |
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Open CASCADE Community Edition. |
To be repocopied from cad/opencascade. |
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Omada Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform integrates network devices, including access points, switches and gateways, providing 100% centralized management for TP-Link devices. |
There's a Linux version available for download as a compressed tape archive in the link provided earlier, and dependencies and instructions are available here |
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OpenBoard is an open source cross-platform teaching software for interactive whiteboard designed primarily for use in schools and universities. It can be used both with interactive whiteboards or in a dual-screen setup with a pen-tablet display and a beamer. |
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OpenEMR is the most popular open source electronic health records and medical practice management solution. ONC certified with international usage, OpenEMR's goal is a superior alternative to its proprietary counterparts. |
Sandra Gutierrez |
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Computational Fluid Dynamics |
Work In Progress. Previously ported as science/openfoam, removed on 2009-06-13 |
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An open-source high-performance computing platform for systems analysis and multidisciplinary optimization, similar to Simulink(R) |
Written in Python |
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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. |
These services (Queens release) are available in the ports tree: |
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High performance software renderer for Mesa |
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Open PostgreSQL Monitoring is a free software suite designed to help you manage your PostgreSQL servers. It's a flexible tool that will follow the activity of each instance. It can gather stats, display dashboards and send warnings when something goes wrong. |
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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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pgCluu is a PostgreSQL performances monitoring and auditing tool. |
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A system performance and analysis framework. |
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Asynchronous server-side framework for Web and network applications implemented in PHP using libevent. phpDaemon can handle thousands of simultaneous connections. |
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cowsay reimplementation for ponies |
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Microsoft PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on the .NET Framework to help IT professionals control and automate the administration of MS-Windows and (now) other platforms. |
WIP D16707, see SummerOfCode2018Projects/PortingPowerShellPorting |
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PowerTOP is a Linux tool to diagnose issues with power consumption and power management. In addition to being a diagnostic tool, PowerTOP also has an interactive mode where the user can experiment various power management settings for cases where the Linux distribution has not enabled these settings. |
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Microsoft's Process Monitor for Linux |
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ProxySQL - A High Performance Open Source MySQL Proxy |
Compiling and running is working. Now working on cleanup and upstreaming changes, and testing stability. |
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Next-generation container filesystem written in Rust (currently FUSE). |
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lightweight Python wrapper for Apache Solr. It provides an interface that queries the server and returns results based on the query. |
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QQ is an instant messaging software developed by Tencent, an imitation of ICQ, and a popular IM software in China. |
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open-source UDP proxies built for game server communication |
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A Q2Ray client based on QT. |
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BMW's distributed rendering engine that's designed for embedded use-cases and with heavy emphasis on efficiency |
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A new computer language released under an Apache License. |
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Scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web |
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Flash Player emulator written in Rust |
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SCRAM is a Command-line Risk Analysis Multi-tool. This project aims to build a command line tool for probabilistic risk analysis. SCRAM is capable of performing static fault tree analysis, analysis with common cause failure models, probability calculations with importance analysis, and uncertainty analysis with Monte Carlo simulations. This tool can handle non-coherent fault trees, containing NOT logic. SCRAM input and report files are based on the Open-PSA Model Exchange Format. |
Waiting for textproc/libxml++26 to be updated >= 2.38.1. See bug 218165 |
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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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Showoff is a slideshow presentation tool with a twist. It runs as a web application, with audience interactivity features. This means that your audience can follow along in their own browsers, can download supplemental materials, can participate in quizzes or polls, post questions for the presenter, etc. By default, their slideshows will synchronize with the presenter, but they can switch to self-navigation mode. |
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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. |
Update me |
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free and open-source cross-platform source explorer |
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Turn your Android device into wireless headphones / wireless speaker. Stream any music or audio from your PC to your Android phone, tablet, or other PCs. |
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Sogou Pinyin for Linux. |
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Measure and display the rate of data across a network connection or data being stored in a file. |
See bug 270045 |
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Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and visualization platform |
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The Swift Programming Language |
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Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron |
tagattie@ |
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Test execution framework from the Open Group. |
Once available as misc/tet but never staged. See TetIntegration for some rationale. |
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Remote control and team work. |
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Make patterns with code, whether live coding music at algoraves or composing in the studio. |
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Stateful and stateless traffic generator fuelled by DPDK. It generates L4-7 traffic based on pre-processing and smart replay of real traffic templates. |
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Provides functionality similar to System Restore in Windows and Time Machine in Mac OS. |
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Epic Games Unreal Engine OSS |
Requested on #FreeBSD |
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Upscaler |
Suggested by vermaden :p |
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GTK3 USB device viewer. Compiles just fine but parses /sys/bus/usb/devices/ on Linux, needs to be ported to FreeBSD |
(creator of early port not working on USB part) |
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Complete replacement of GNU coreutils in Rust |
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Vector is an on-host performance monitoring framework which exposes hand picked high resolution metrics to every engineer’s browser. |
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VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease. |
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Cross platform highly visual ARM emulator |
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Vivaldi Browser is an Opera follow-up. It has a Beta for embedded email client also. |
source code https://vivaldi.com/source/ Linux version available only |
prepare is https://github.com/Martinfx/FreeBSD-Ports/tree/max-vivaldi/vivaldi . I cannot generate ninja files |
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VNC tool. |
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vtop is a graphical activity monitor for the command line based on node.js. |
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Self-hosting app for storing/reading webpages offline à la Pocket |
PHP, uses Symphony framework |
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Cross platform messenger supporting end to end encryption, Audio/Video, group chats etc. |
WIP |
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Gordon's Arduino wiring-like WiringPi Library for the Raspberry Pi. |
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XMage is Java based and allows you to play Magic: The Gathering against one or more online players or computer opponents. |
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XQEMU is an open-source emulator to play original Xbox game. |
https://github.com/Martinfx/FreeBSD-Ports/tree/max-xqemu-freebsd/xqemu |
work in progress @maxfx |
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A full-featured e-mail and groupware solution, focused towards clients using the MAPI standard. |
OpenBSD port exists. There are a number of DEPRECATED warnings in the webaccess client, that may result in breakage. |
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In terminal graphical metrics for your *nix system written in Rust |
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Web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala and more. |
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zfs stats interface |
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Zimbra Collaboration Suite is an enterprise-class open source email, calendar and collaboration server. |
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Drop-in replacement for CUDA on Intel GPU. ZLUDA allows to run unmodified CUDA applications using Intel GPUs with near-native performance. |
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Non-portable
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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What does it do? |
Why non-portable? |
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Aerospike database server – flash-optimized, in-memory, NoSQL database |
only Linux support |
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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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fusefs-gmailfs |
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obscure fusefs compat and SSL issues, i.e. it works, but not ready to be ported just yet |
IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts. |
Too many linuxisms |
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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 |
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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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PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc. CARE monitors the execution of the specified command to create an archive that contains all the material required to re-execute it in the same context. |
Too Linux-centric, mostly impossible to port, but it would be great to have such an application! |
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High performance distributed in database |
depends on seastar, which uses some Linux specific syscalls and for lksctp-tools |
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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. Now replaced by Nightingale |
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Open Source Network Forensic Analysis Tool. |
Requires <linux/if.h> |