List of requests for the creation of FreeBSD Ports of software.
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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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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Remote Desktop Access in both directions |
Native binaries for amd64 and i386 available, easy to create a port |
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Text editor, written in CoffeeScript |
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olivierd@, mmokhi@ |
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WYSIWYG Editor |
Nice html editor based on gecko, see github repo |
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Editor |
Based on embedded chrome, see github repo |
olivierd@ |
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The original distributed source management system |
WIP exists but needs finishing touches |
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Brave browser for Desktop and Laptop |
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Cinelerra is the most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux/Unix. |
WIP port for 2.3 exists but needs help |
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Electron is a framework to build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. |
WIP |
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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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A classic Mac emulator now opensourced |
We used to ship the linux version as a commercial demo in FreeBSD 2.x, should build on i386 |
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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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Originally based on PostgreSQL 8.2, Pivotal 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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A supercharged Git/GitHub command line interface (CLI). An official integration for GitHub and GitHub Enterprise. |
See bug 217484 |
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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 environments. |
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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Various i2p software |
There is no i2p software such as i2pmessenger, etc. |
See bug 186555 |
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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. |
Intel supports FreeBSD 10+ commercially. |
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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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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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Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and also can be compiled to JavaScript source code or uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure. |
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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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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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LogZilla is a universal log collector. |
See the FreeBSD.org Forum Thread |
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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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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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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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A DTrace provider for Apache httpd. |
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Apache module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth. |
WIP |
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IP Address Management written as a Django application. |
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NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. If there's suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this. This makes it easy to identify programs that have gone wild and are suddenly taking up your bandwidth. |
Depends heavily on the linux procfs. |
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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 |
mmokhi@ |
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Vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home. |
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An open-source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment intended for industrial and academic usage. |
Upstream recommends clang. There is a GSoC to have Scilab use OMCompiler. |
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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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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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A system performance and analysis framework. |
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pgCluu is a PostgreSQL performances monitoring and auditing tool. |
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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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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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Plasma is an interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS. It can generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax. |
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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. |
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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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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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A new computer language released under an Apache License. |
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An integrated development environment (IDE) for R. |
Work in progress (stalled): http://people.freebsd.org/~zi/rstudio.shar |
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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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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 |
Mel Flynn |
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Spotify provides a Linux version of their music streaming client. |
Does not not yet work with our Linux binary emulation. Attempt to make it work. |
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A simple C++ library for constructing general Neural networks |
Requires Vedvarsha |
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Modern SSH server for teams managing distributed infrastructure |
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Vedvarsha is a program that can be used for handwriting script recogniton and OCR |
Required by Syntatic |
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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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Torrentflux-b4rt allows you to control your internet downloads / transfers from anywhere using a highly configurable web based front end. |
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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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Vulnerability scanner for Linux/FreeBSD, agentless, written in Go |
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Cross platform messenger supporting end to end encryption, Audio/Video, group chats etc. |
WIP |
mmokhi@ |
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WPS (Kingsoft) Office has fine support for modern MS formats. |
Linux version is freely downloadable. |
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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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Open Source Network Forensic Analysis Tool. |
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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. Patches against git master |
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Zimbra Collaboration Suite is an enterprise-class open source email, calendar and collaboration server. |
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Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios. |
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Porting status |
Who is working/contact |
RDP client for the GNOME desktop. |
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Koichiro Iwao meta@vmeta.jp |
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web spreadsheet |
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Universal VPN client |
Working on it, install guide http://www.softether.org/5-download/src/2.unix |
Tommy Scheunemann net@arrishq.net |
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Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online |
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Issue Tracker |
Has been run standalone and should run under container such as Tomcat or Glassfish |
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SPICE-compatible parallel electronic circuit simulator developed by Sandia |
FreeBSD is supported: requires a port of Trilinos solver library |
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Solver Library |
Required by xyce |
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zfs stats interface |
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SSL/TLS library |
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Web Browser based on Chromium with focus on privacy |
Working on it. See the FreeBSD.org Forum Thread |
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High performance software renderer for Mesa |
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High performance distributed in memory database |
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Scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web |
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high speed grep/ack alike |
Works on FreeBSD, but there is no simple USES=rust yet |
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High performance distributed in database |
depends on seastar, which uses some Linux specific syscalls |
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load balancing HTTP(S) router |
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NES emulator |
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Truecrypt fork |
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Self-hosting app for storing/reading webpages offline à la Pocket |
PHP, uses Symphony framework |
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OpenShot Library (libopenshot)dedicated to delivering high quality video editing, animation, and playback solutions to the world. It is required to update multimedia/openshot to 2.x branch |
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OpenShot Library (libopenshot)dedicated to delivering high quality video editing, animation, and playback solutions to the world. It is required to update multimedia/openshot to 2.x branch |
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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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Porting notes |
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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 |
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USB userland gamepad driver |
Requires linux/uinput.h |
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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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OpenIKEv2 is an open source IKEv2 implementation written in C++. |
stuck in libopenikev2_impl linuxisms; libopenikev2 compiles okay. |
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