The following is a list of notable websites that list free software projects. These directories and repositories of free software differ from software hosting facilities (or software forges) in the number of features they offer and the type of collaboration they are designed to promote.
General directories Name Description, focusSourceForgelargest directory, >500K projects Apache Software Foundation Mostly Java Free Software Directory About 17000 packages with 386 GNU-packages and 97 High Priority Projects Open Hub (Formerly Ohloh) Libraries.io Open source libraries, frameworks and tools ibiblio Open source softwareList of free and open-source software packagesAlternativeToGeneral: can filter by license type "Open Source"sourcehut
Programming language specific directories 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
See also
Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities
References