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Libtirpc is a port of Suns Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux. It's being developed by the Bull GNU/Linux NFSv4 project. The upstream git tree is at: git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/libtirpc
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libsdl-android
SDL library for Android, including several games.
Port of SDL library to Android mobile platform. There are also several games inside the repository, along with their sources and build files. Both SDL 1.2 and 1.3/2.0 versions are supported (1.3/2.0 support is experimental) Sources are at https://github.com/pelya/commandergenius -
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BepInEx
Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework
Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework. BepInEx is a plugin / modding framework for Unity Mono, IL2CPP, and .NET framework games (XNA, FNA, MonoGame, etc.) Stable builds are released once a new iteration of BepInEx is considered feature-complete. They have the least bugs, but some newest features might not be available. Bleeding edge builds are available on BepisBuilds. Bleeding edge builds are always the latest builds of the source code. Thus they are the opposite to stable builds: they have the newest features and bugfixes available, but usually tend to be the most buggy. Therefore you should use bleeding edge builds only if you are asked to or if you want to preview the upcoming version of BepInEx. Some games require some additional changes in order to work around specific limitations of different Unity versions. -
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Laravel
The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework -
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Hibernate
An object relational-mapping (ORM) library for Java
The Hibernate projects offer a suite of powerful Java libraries to work with data. It is best known for Hibernate ORM, which provides relational persistence for Java models and is an implementation of the Jakarta Persistence specification. Hibernate projects do not consistently release binaries or documentation to SourceForge anymore. For up-to-date information, refer to the Hibernate website: * Hibernate ORM: https://hibernate.org/orm/ * Hibernate Validator: https://hibernate.org/validator/ * Hibernate Search: https://hibernate.org/search/ That website will also be updated with newer projects, such as Hibernate Reactive. -
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OpenSSH
Win32 port of OpenSSH
OpenSSH is a complete implementation of the SSH protocol (version 2) for secure remote login, command execution and file transfer. It includes a client ssh and server sshd, file transfer utilities scp and sftp as well as tools for key generation (ssh-keygen), run-time key storage (ssh-agent) and a number of supporting programs. This is a port of OpenBSD's OpenSSH to most Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, OS X and Cygwin. Portable OpenSSH polyfills OpenBSD APIs that are not available elsewhere, adds sshd sandboxing for more operating systems and includes support for OS-native authentication and auditing (e.g. using PAM). There are many build-time customization options available. -
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StabilityMatrix
Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion
StabilityMatrix is a project that helps organize, evaluate, and compare generative AI models and their behavior across prompts, datasets, or configuration settings. It provides a framework to run experiments systematically—capturing inputs, model configurations, outputs, and metrics—so researchers and practitioners can reason about differences in quality, robustness, and failure modes. The repository often bundles tooling for automated prompt sweeping, scoring heuristics (such as diversity, coherence, or task-specific metrics), and visualization helpers to make comparisons interpretable. This approach is useful for model selection, prompt engineering, and benchmarking new checkpoints against baseline models under reproducible conditions. By turning ad-hoc tests into tracked experiments, StabilityMatrix reduces bias, surfaces subtle regressions, and accelerates iteration when tuning generative systems. -
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PowerShell
Command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET
Powershell is a cross-platform, task-based command-line shell and scripting language that helps rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows) and processes. It works well with existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data, REST APIs and object models. PowerShell was developed by Microsoft as a task management and configuration management framework. Powershell is designed to let you manage computers from the command line and improve the command-line and scripting environment. -
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APIJSON
Real-Time coding-free, powerful and secure ORM
APIJSON is an open-source framework developed by Tencent that enables zero-code, real-time, and secure API development. It allows developers to perform CRUD operations through JSON-based requests without writing backend code, significantly accelerating development and reducing errors. APIJSON supports fine-grained access control, parameter validation, and seamless integration with various databases, making it a powerful tool for building scalable APIs. -
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Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Plus
The complete and extended version of Visual Basic 6.0 runtime library
This is the complete package of runtime files and redistributable libraries for running or distributing applications written in Visual Basic 6.0 and together with some third-party redistributable components. Notes and Disclaimer: * Visual Basic 6.0 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. * All trademarks and components are owned by their respective owners. * The developer's scope was the collection of VB6 redistributables and creation of installer only. * Use at your own risk, the developers was not responsible for any damages for using this software. -
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EhViewer
EhViewer overhauled with Material Design 3, Jetpack Compose and more
EhViewer fork is dedicated to lightweight and high-performance. -
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LSPosed
LSPosed Framework
LSPosed is a modern and actively maintained implementation of the Xposed Framework, focused on improved security, stability, and compatibility with Android 8.1 and above. It enables developers and power users to dynamically modify the behavior of apps and the Android system at runtime without modifying APKs or flashing ROMs. LSPosed runs in a more secure environment with support for scope control and better integration with Magisk for systemless module management. -
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REFramework
Scripting platform, modding framework and VR support for RE Engine
A mod framework, scripting platform, and modding tool for RE Engine games. Inspired by and uses code from Kanan. Supports Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil Village, Devil May Cry 5, Monster Hunter Rise. Lua Scripting API (All games), VR, Generic 6DOF VR support for all games, motion controls for RE2/RE3 (RE7 and RE8 motion controls are still WIP!), first person (RE2, RE3), free camera (All games), scene timescale (All games), manual flashlight (RE2, RE3, RE8), FOV slider & vignette disabler (RE2, RE3, RE8). -
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Flask
The Python micro framework for building web applications
Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework designed to help developers get started with their web applications quickly and easily with the ability to scale up to complex applications. Being a “micro” framework does not mean that your whole web application must fit into a single Python file (although it can) or that it be limited; rather it means that Flask aims to keep the core simple but extensible. Flask offers suggestions, but it won’t make any decisions for you such as what database to use or what dependencies or project layout to choose. You get to choose the tools and libraries you want to use, so Flask can be everything you need and nothing you don’t. Flask has become one of the most popular Python web application frameworks, and has amassed a great number of extensions provided by the community that make adding new functionality easy. -
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Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans is much more than a text editor. It highlights source code syntactically and semantically, lets you easily refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools. Apache NetBeans provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications in Java, PHP and many other languages. Apache NetBeans can be installed on all operating systems that support Java, i.e, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. Write Once, Run Anywhere, applies to NetBeans too. -
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JUnit 5
Programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM
The 5th major version of the programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM. JUnit 5 is the next generation of JUnit. The goal is to create an up-to-date foundation for developer-side testing on the JVM. This includes focusing on Java 8 and above, as well as enabling many different styles of testing. Official CI build server for JUnit 5. Used to perform quick checks on submitted pull requests and for build matrices including the latest released OpenJDK and early access builds of the next OpenJDK. The JUnit Platform serves as a foundation for launching testing frameworks on the JVM. It also defines the TestEngine API for developing a testing framework that runs on the platform. Furthermore, the platform provides a Console Launcher to launch the platform from the command line and the JUnit Platform Suite Engine for running a custom test suite using one or more test engines on the platform. First-class support for the JUnit Platform also exists in popular IDEs. -
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ESP-IDF
Espressif IoT Development Framework
ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework) is the official, open-source development framework for programming Espressif SoCs (such as ESP32, ESP32‑S2, ESP32‑C3 series). It provides toolchains, APIs, components, sample code, and workflows for building embedded IoT firmware, offering support for Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, power management, and peripheral integration. As well as the esp-idf-template project mentioned in Getting Started, ESP-IDF comes with some example projects in the examples directory. Install host build dependencies mentioned in the Getting Started guide. Run the export script on Windows (export.bat) or source it on Unix (source export.sh) in every shell environment before using ESP-IDF. -
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Volatility
An advanced memory forensics framework
Volatility is a widely used open-source framework for analyzing memory captures (RAM dumps) from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. It enables investigators and malware analysts to extract process lists, network connections, DLLs, strings, artifacts, and more. Volatility supports many plugins for detecting hidden processes, malware, rootkits, and event tracing. It’s essential in digital forensics and incident response workflows. -
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mpv.net
mpv.net is a modern media player for Windows that works just like mpv
mpv.net is a modern desktop media player for Windows based on the popular mpv player. mpv.net is designed to be mpv compatible, almost all mpv features are available because they are all contained in libmpv, this means the official mpv manual applies to mpv.net. mpv focuses on the usage of the command line and the terminal, mpv.net retains the ability to be used from the command line and the terminal and adds a modern Windows GUI on top of it. Video output that is capable of many features loved by videophiles, such as video scaling with popular high-quality algorithms, color management, frame timing, interpolation, HDR, and more. Leverages the FFmpeg hwaccel APIs to support DXVA2 video decoding acceleration. mpv.net is based on libmpv which offers a straightforward C API that was designed from the ground up to make mpv usable as a library and facilitate easy integration into other applications. mpv is like VLC not based on DirectShow or Media Foundation. -
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Pentaho Data Integration
Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL ) a.k.a Kettle
Pentaho Data Integration uses the Maven framework. Project distribution archive is produced under the assemblies module. Core implementation, database dialog, user interface, PDI engine, PDI engine extensions, PDI core plugins, and integration tests. Maven, version 3+, and Java JDK 1.8 are requisites. Use of the Pentaho checkstyle format (via mvn checkstyle:check and reviewing the report) and developing working Unit Tests helps to ensure that pull requests for bugs and improvements are processed quickly. In addition to the unit tests, there are integration tests that test cross-module operation. -
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Tailwind CSS
A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development
Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML. A utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup. Utility classes help you work within the constraints of a system instead of littering your stylesheets with arbitrary values. They make it easy to be consistent with color choices, spacing, typography, shadows, and everything else that makes up a well-engineered design system. Because Tailwind is so low-level, it never encourages you to design the same site twice. Even with the same color palette and sizing scale, it's easy to build the same component with a completely different look in the next project. Tailwind automatically removes all unused CSS when building for production, which means your final CSS bundle is the smallest it could possibly be. In fact, most Tailwind projects ship less than 10kB of CSS to the client. -
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teams-for-linux
Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client
This is an unofficial Microsoft Teams client. The official client for Linux is rumored to be retired by end of 2022. Please do report bugs and questions in the issues section. We will try to attend them at the earliest. PRs and suggestions are welcomed. We will continue to support the community. Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux using Electron. It uses the Web App and wraps it as a standalone application using Electron. Binaries are available under releases for AppImage, rpm, deb, snap, and tar.gz. In the case of AppImage, we recommend using AppImageLauncher for the best desktop experience. Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the installing snapd documentation. Generate an embeddable card to be shared on external websites. -
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Selenium
Browser automation framework and ecosystem
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well. If you want to create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests, scale and distribute scripts across many environments, then you want to use Selenium WebDriver, a collection of language specific bindings to drive a browser - the way it is meant to be driven. If you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts, create scripts to aid in automation-aided exploratory testing, then you want to use Selenium IDE; a Chrome and Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. If you want to scale by distributing and running tests on several machines and manage multiple environments from a central point. -
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iDempiere
iDempiere. Community Powered Enterprise
iDempiere. Community Powered Enterprise iDempiere Business Suite ERP/CRM/SCM done the community way. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. iDempiere is based on original Compiere/Adempiere plus a new architecture to use state-of-the-art technologies like OSGi, Buckminster, zk.
