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Domain Whitelist
Peta Sittek
Ultimate blocker which says no to every network packet until you explicitly allow it. By default Domain Whitelist blocks everything. Everything. It's up to you to build your very customized whitelist of domains you trust. Everything else is blocked and well kept out of your browser. It's like AdBlock the other way around, completely. By blocking advertisement domains you're free of most of those pervasive ads. By blocking tracking domains you're protected from services that acquire information about your browsing behavior. By blocking unnecessary domains (requests) you save a lot of traffic and make pages load faster! Read and change all your data on the websites you visit to be able to intercept HTTP requests before they leave your browser. Completely free and with no ads.Starting Price: Free -
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Metiix Blockade
Metiix
Block malware, tracking, & ads on every device in your network. Choose a single device, a group, or your entire network. Simple software deployment and configuration. Custom blocklist & exceptions. Blockade is DNS-based server software designed to block third-party tracking software, analytical software, ads and access to sites known to carry malware for all computers and devices on your network that can browse the internet. A single server software license is all that is needed to protect all of the devices (computers, servers, laptops, Chromebooks, handhelds, smart TVs, tablets, phones) connected on your network and across your WI-FI from internet tracking software and ads. Load Blockade directly onto any Windows or Linux computer on your network not currently running DNS services or web services. Blockade keeps advertisements, tracking, and analytical software off of your network.Starting Price: Free -
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Malwarebytes Browser Guard
Malwarebytes
Filters out annoying ads and scams while blocking trackers that spy on you. Download free for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari browsers. Malwarebytes Browser Guard crushes unwanted and unsafe content, giving you a safer and faster browsing experience. Not only that, it is the world’s first browser extension that can identify and stop tech support scams. We take on the bad guys so you don’t have to. Speeds up how fast web pages display by blocking third-party ads and other unwanted content, saving your sanity and bandwidth. Identifies and stops browser lockers, browser hijackers, and other scare tactics tech support scammers use to con you out of money. Puts the hurt on tech support scammers. Blocks third-party ad trackers that follow you around the Internet and target you with the same ads over and over again. Removes annoying ads that often point to the content of questionable value.Starting Price: Free -
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Vimb
fanglingsu
Vimb is a fast and lightweight vim-like web browser based on the WebKit web browser engine and the GTK toolkit. Vimb is modal like the great vim editor and also easily configurable during runtime. Vimb is mostly keyboard-driven and does not distract you from your daily work. If you are familiar with vim or have some experience with pentadactyl the use of Vimb would be a breeze, if not we missed our target. Enable visualization of some runtime settings. Allows controlling the website access to the notification API. it’s modal like Vim. Vim-like keybindings, assignable for each browser mode. Nearly every configuration can be changed at runtime with Vim-like set syntax. History for ex-commands, search queries, URLs. Completions for commands, URLs, bookmarked URLs, variable names of settings, search-queries. Hinting marks links, form fields, and other clickable elements to be clicked, opened or inspected. SSL validation against the ca-certificate file. user-defined URL shortcuts.Starting Price: Free -
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Luakit
Luakit
Luakit is a highly configurable browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible with Lua, and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and anyone who wants to have fine-grained control over their web browser’s behavior and interface. While switching to the WebKit 2 API means a vastly improved security situation, not all distributions of Linux package the most up-to-date version of WebKitGTK+, and several package very outdated versions that have many known vulnerabilities. As of September 2019, Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and Ubuntu all have the latest version of WebKitGTK+, but OpenSUSE ships an outdated and vulnerable version in their stable channel. If you use Luakit for browsing, it is your responsibility to ensure that your distribution packages an up-to-date version of WebKitGTK+!Starting Price: Free -
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TestDisk
TestDisk
TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. Fix partition table, recover deleted partition. Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup. Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector. Fix FAT tables. Rebuild the NTFS boot sector. Recover the NTFS boot sector from its backup. Fix MFT using MFT mirror. Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock. Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS, and ext2 filesystem. Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions. TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive.Starting Price: Free -
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DivFix++
DivFix++
DivFix++ is a video repair tool for AVI files. Sometimes you can't convert your AVI video files for your PSP or smartphone due to slight corruption. Because most "video conversion" software doesn't like corrupted AVI files. You can fix corruptions on your AVI file before starting the conversion. Also, you can't watch your video/movie properly on your favorite "video player" due to corruption. Sometimes downloaded videos/movies are corrupted too. You can fix them with DivFix++ if they are in AVI format. You can also preview "video download" with this tool, fix the file adds the seeking ability to the video and you can watch currently downloaded parts. So you can decide if you are continuing to download that video or not. It's a good thing if you are a heavy P2P user. Windows users can download ming32 compiled Win32 and ming64 compiled Win64 binaries. Mac OSX users can download precompiled static Universal binary.Starting Price: Free -
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Meteorite Project
MKV Repair
Meteorite Project is DivFix++ like the program but for Matroska/MKV files. It can repair your corrupted MKV video files to make them compatible with your player. Also, you can preview Matroska files that are already in download. New videos, especially in HD, high definition videos are in MKV format generally. You needed to fix them before watching. But unfortunately, there was no program that could fix Matroska files. So I make this tool, just for myself and then released the source and binary on my birthday. You can repair your half downloaded MKV/Matroska videos or broken movies with it too. Meteorite is a program for repairing broken MKV streams. It scans the MKV file and then removes all broken sections from it. After joining each frame together, you can watch your corrupted or half downloaded Matroska files at your favorite player.Starting Price: Free -
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B1 Archiver
B1 Free Archiver
B1 Archiver is a 100%, free archive manager. You can use it on any computer and you don't have to register or pay anything. Feel free to share the B1 Archiver with your friends or co-workers. B1 Archiver works on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android. You no longer need different software on your PC, smartphone, or tablet. B1 is the best-unified solution for every device. Supports most popular formats - b1, zip, jar, xpi, rar, 7z, arj, bz2, cab, deb, gzip, tgz, iso, lzh, lha, lzma, rpm, tar, xar, z, dmg, and others. Works with split and password-protected archives and serves perfectly as a file manager. B1 Archiver is extremely simple to use, you don't need comprehensive manuals or guides. Just install it and enjoy. It also works light speed fast even with large archives and many files. We apply the highest safety standards and care about your privacy. B1 Archiver never gathers any kind of personal information and does not install any malicious software.Starting Price: Free -
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Gzip
GNU Operating System
GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. We developed this program as a replacement for compress because of the Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm used by compress. These patents made it impossible for us to use compress, and we needed a replacement. The superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus. Stable source releases are available on the main GNU download server (HTTPS, HTTP, FTP) and its mirrors; please use a mirror if possible. gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension ‘.gz’, while keeping the same ownership modes, access, and modification times. (The default extension is ‘z’ for MSDOS, OS/2 FAT, and Atari.) If no files are specified, the standard input is compressed to the standard output.Starting Price: Free -
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NuGet
NuGet
NuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers. New to NuGet? Start with a walkthrough showing how NuGet powers your .NET development. Browse the thousands of packages that developers like you have created and shared with the .NET community. Want to make your first NuGet package and share it with the community? Start with our walkthrough! The command-line tool, nuget.exe, builds and runs under Mono 3.2+ and can create packages in Mono. Although nuget.exe works fully on Windows, there are known issues with Linux and OS X. The primary source for learning about a package is its listing page on NuGet (or another private feed). Each package page on NuGet includes a description of the package, its version history, and usage statistics.Starting Price: Free -
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Yarn
Yarn
Yarn is a package manager which doubles down as project manager. Whether you work on one-shot projects or large monorepos, as a hobbyist or an enterprise user, we've got you covered. Split your project into sub-components kept within a single repository. Yarn guarantees that an install that works now will continue to work the same way in the future. Yarn cannot solve all your problems, but it can be the foundation for others to do it. We believe in challenging the status quo. What should the ideal developer experience be like? Yarn is an independent open-source project tied to no company. Your support makes us thrive. Yarn already knows everything there is to know about your dependency tree, it even installs it on the disk for you. So, why is it up to Node to find where your packages are? Instead, it should be the package manager's job to inform the interpreter about the location of the packages on the disk and manage any dependencies between packages and even versions of packages.Starting Price: Free -
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JDownloader
JDownloader
It is an open source platform written entirely in Java, designed to simplify downloading files from servers like Rapidshare.com or Megaupload.com, not only for Premium account users but also for free account users. JD offers multiple parallel downloads, captcha recognition, automatic file extraction, password management and much more. Additionally, it supports many "link encryption" sites, so you just have to paste the "encrypted" links and JD will do the rest. JD can import DLC, CCF and RSDF files. Of course, JD is free.Starting Price: Free -
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Zypper
SUSE
Zypper is a command-line package manager for installing, updating, and removing packages. It can also be used to manage repositories. Zypper works and behaves as a regular command-line tool. It features subcommands, arguments, and options that can be used to perform specific tasks. Zypper offers several benefits compared to graphical package managers. Being a command-line tool, Zypper is faster in use and light on resources. Zypper actions can be scripted. Zypper can be used on systems that do not have graphical desktop environments. This makes it suitable for use with servers and remote machines. The simplest way to execute Zypper is to type its name, followed by a command. Additionally, you can choose from one or more global options by typing them immediately before the command. Some commands require one or more arguments. Executing subcommands in the Zypper shell, and using global Zypper options are not supported.Starting Price: Free -
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eoPKG
eoPKG
eoPKG is the package manager for the Solus operating system. It is used to manage installed software packages, search for available software, and to apply updates to the system. Change the system root for eoPKG commands. Set username used when connecting to Basic-Auth repositories. Set password used when connecting to Basic-Auth repositories. Enable full debug information and backtraces. Keep bandwidth usage under the specified (numeric) KBs. Disable the use of ANSI escape sequences for colorization by eoPKG. On success, 0 is returned. A non-zero return code signals a failure.Starting Price: Free -
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APT
Distro Tracker Developers
This software lets you follow the evolution of a Debian-based distribution both with email updates and with a comprehensive web interface. Having all the information about packages conveniently available in a single place is particularly interesting for package maintainers, contributors, advanced users, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Nix
NixOS
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative, and reliable systems. Nix builds packages in isolation from each other. This ensures that they are reproducible and don't have undeclared dependencies, so if a package works on one machine, it will also work on another. Nix makes it trivial to share development and build environments for your projects, regardless of what programming languages and tools you’re using. Nix ensures that installing or upgrading one package cannot break other packages. It allows you to roll back to previous versions and ensures that no package is in an inconsistent state during an upgrade. Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell, they are built by functions that don’t have side effects, and they never change after they have been built.Starting Price: Free -
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Pacman
Pacman
Pacman is a utility which manages software packages in Linux. It uses simple compressed files as a package format, and maintains a text-based package database (more of a hierarchy), just in case some hand tweaking is necessary. Pacman does not strive to "do everything." It will add, remove and upgrade packages in the system, and it will allow you to query the package database for installed packages, files and owners. It also attempts to handle dependencies automatically and can download packages from a remote server. Version 2.0 of Pacman introduced the ability to sync packages (the - sync option) with a master server through the use of package databases. Prior to this, packages would have to be installed manually using the --add and - upgrade operations.Starting Price: Free -
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Snapcraft
Snapcraft
This is the code repository for snapd, the background service that manages and maintains installed snaps. Snaps are app packages for desktop, cloud, and IoT that update automatically. Easy to install, secure, cross-platform, and dependency-free. They're being used on millions of Linux systems every day. Alongside its various service and management functions, snapd provides the snap command that's used to install and remove snaps and interact with the wider snap ecosystem, implements the confinement policies that isolate snaps from the base system and from each other, governs the interfaces that allow snaps to access specific system resources outside of their confinement. If you're looking for something to install, such as Spotify or Visual Studio Code, take a look at the Snap Store. And if you want to build your own snaps, start with our creating a snap documentation.Starting Price: Free -
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Aptitude
Debian
Aptitude is an Ncurses and command-line based front-end to numerous Apt libraries, which are also used by Apt, the default Debian package manager. Aptitude is text-based and run from a terminal. A mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner. Mark packages as "automatically installed" or "manually installed" so that packages can be auto-removed when no longer required (feature available in Apt, too, since quite a few Debian releases). Preview of actions about to be taken with different colors marking different actions. The ability to interactively retrieve and display the Debian changelog of all available official packages. Score-based dependency resolver which is more suitable for interactive dependency resolution with additional hints from the user like "I don't want that part of the solution but keep that other part of the solution for your next try". Apt's dependency resolver on the other hand is optimized for good "one-shot" solutions.Starting Price: Free -
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Synaptic
Synaptic
Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command-line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+. Install, remove, upgrade and downgrade single and multiple packages. Upgrade your whole system. Manage package repositories (sources.list). Find packages by name, description, and several other attributes. Select packages by status, section, name, or a custom filter. Sort packages by name, status, size, or version. Browse all available online documentation related to a package. Download the latest changelog of a package. Lock packages to the current version. Force the installation of a specific package version. Undo/Redo selections. Built-in terminal emulator for the package manager. Debian/Ubuntu only, configure packages through the debconf system. Debian/Ubuntu only, Xapain-based fast search (thanks to Enrico Zini).Starting Price: Free -
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Portage
Portage
The Portage Development Project works to provide a continuously expanding and developing tool for the management and installation of packages. The developers work on providing a coherent system that is as trouble free as possible (backwards compatible, automated, and simple). Bugs are tracked and fixed from the Gentoo bug tracker and developer-developer correspondence is maintained on the gentoo-portage-dev mailing list. Another communication channel is the #gentoo-portage (webchat) IRC channel on the Libera.Chat network. The goal of the Portage project is to provide a seamless integration of developer and user tools to aid the growth and maintenance of Gentoo packages. This means we work not only on Portage itself, but also on associated tools, and on ensuring that our APIs are useful to other tools.Starting Price: Free -
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pkgsrc
pkgsrc
pkgsrc is a framework for managing third-party software on UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 17,900 packages. It is the default package manager of NetBSD and SmartOS and can be used to enable freely available software to be built easily on a large number of other UNIX-like platforms. The binary packages that are produced by pkgsrc can be used without having to compile anything from the source. It can be easily used to complement the software on an existing system. pkgsrc is very versatile and configurable, supporting building packages for an arbitrary installation prefix, allowing multiple branches to coexist on one machine, a build options framework, and a compiler transformation framework, among other advanced features. Unprivileged use and installation are also supported. NetBSD already contains the necessary tools for using pkgsrc; on other platforms, you need to bootstrap pkgsrc to get the package management tools installed.Starting Price: Free -
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Rudix
Rudix
Rudix is a build system target on macOS (formerly known as Mac OS X) with minor support to OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux. The build system (also called "ports") provides step-by-step instructions for building third-party software, entirely from source code. Rudix provides more than a pure ports framework, it comes with packages, and precompiled software bundled up in a nice format (files *.pkg) for easy installation on your Mac. If you want to collaborate on the project, visit us at GitHub/rudix-mac or at our mirror at GitLab/rudix. Use the GitHub issue tracker to submit bugs or request features. Similar projects or alternatives to Rudix are Fink, MacPorts, pkgsrc, and Homebrew. Packages are compiled and tested on macOS Big Sur (Version 11, Intel only!), Catalina (Version 10.15) and OS X El Capitan (Version 10.11). Every package is self-contained and has everything it needs to work. The binaries, libraries, and documentation will be installed under /usr/local/.Starting Price: Free -
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PackageManagement (OneGet)
PackageManagement (OneGet)
This module is currently not in development. We are no longer accepting any pull requests to this repository. OneGet is in a stable state and is expected to receive only high-priority bug fixes from Microsoft in the future. If you have a question or are seeing an unexpected behavior from this module please open up an issue in this repository. PackageManagement is supported in Windows, Linux and MacOS now. We periodically make binary drops to PowerShellCore, meaning PackageManagement is a part of PowerShell Core releases.Starting Price: Free -
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Zero Install
Zero Install
A decentralized cross-platform software installation system. Works on Linux, Windows and macOS. Fully open-source. Run apps with a single click. Run applications without having to install them first. Control everything from a command line or graphical interface. You control your own computer. You don't have to guess what happens during installation. Mix and match stable and experimental apps on a single system. Anyone can distribute software. Create one package that works on multiple platforms. Publish on any static web host; no central point of control. With dependency handling and automatic updates. Security is central. Installing an app doesn't grant it administrator access. Digital signatures are always checked before new software is run. Apps can share libraries without having to trust each other. Adds automatic self-updating, staged rollouts and various improvements to desktop integration.Starting Price: Free -
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YUM
Red Hat
Installing, patching, and removing software packages on Linux machines is one of the common tasks every sysadmin has to do. Here is how to get started with Linux package management in Linux Red Hat-based distributions (distros). Package management is a method of installing, updating, removing, and keeping track of software updates from specific repositories (repos) in the Linux system. Linux distros often use different package management tools. Red Hat-based distros use RPM (RPM Package Manager) and YUM/DNF (Yellow Dog Updater, Modified/Dandified YUM). YUM is the primary package management tool for installing, updating, removing and managing software packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. YUM performs dependency resolution when installing, updating, and removing software packages. YUM can manage packages from installed repositories in the system or from .rpm packages. There are many options and commands available to use with YUM.Starting Price: Free -
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RPM Package Manager
RPM Package Manager
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system capable of building computer software from the source into easily distributable packages; installing, updating, and uninstalling packaged software; querying detailed information about the packaged software, whether installed or not; and verifying the integrity of packaged software and resulting software installation. The package’s metadata is stored in the RPM header. The header is a binary data structure that stores single pieces of data in tags. Each tag has a pre-defined meaning and data type. These are not stored in the header itself but need to be known by the code reading the header. In the header, the tags are only referred to by their number. Each tag is either of a plain scalar type or is an array of one of these types. While not enforced by the type system the RPM code assumes that tags belonging together have the same number of entries.Starting Price: Free -
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Fortran Package Manager
Fortran
Package manager and build system for Fortran. There are already many packages available for use with fpm, providing an easily accessible and rich ecosystem of general-purpose and high-performance code. Fortran Package Manager (fpm) is a package manager and build system for Fortran. Its key goal is to improve the user experience of Fortran programmers. It does so by making it easier to build your Fortran program or library, run the executables, tests, and examples, and distribute it as a dependency to other Fortran projects. Fpm’s user interface is modeled after Rust’s Cargo. Its long-term vision is to nurture and grow the ecosystem of modern Fortran applications and libraries. The Fortran package manager has a plugin system that allows it to easily extend its functionality. The fpm-search project is a plugin to query the package registry. Since it is built with fpm we can easily install it on our system.Starting Price: Free -
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fpm
fpm
fpm is a tool that lets you easily create packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and more! fpm isn’t a new packaging system, it’s a tool to help you make packages for existing systems with less effort. It does this by offering a command-line interface to allow you to create packages easily. FPM is written in ruby and can be installed using gem. For some package formats (like rpm and snap), you will need certain packages installed to build them. Some package formats require other tools to be installed on your machine to be built; especially if you are building a package for another operating system/distribution. FPM takes your program and builds packages that can be installed easily on various operating systems. It can take any nodejs package, ruby gem, or even a python package and turn it into a deb, rpm, pacman, etc. package.Starting Price: Free
