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An online book by Hadley Wickham and Jennifer Bryan teaching how to create R packages, the units of shareable, reusable and reproducible R code. It covers turning code into packages others can download and use, is free to read online under a license, and can be ordered in print.
InstallForge is a free tool for creating setup packages for Windows. It uses a wizard-driven interface that requires no scripting knowledge, and its packages are distributed as single executable files built on a native setup engine. It supports multiple Windows versions, multilingual packages, customizable setup dialogs and several compression algorithms.
Libraries.io is a free service that collects publicly available open source package information scraped from the internet. Users can search packages by license or language and explore new, trending or popular packages. The data is not validated, corrected or curated for accuracy. API access is free to registered users, subject to a rate limit.
The FreeBSD Wiki is a MoinMoin-powered community wiki for the FreeBSD project. It hosts pages on contributing to FreeBSD, community channels, supported hardware and platforms, development tools, active and inactive projects, the base system, ports and packages, and documentation. It also includes an introduction to the wiki, account creation and editing guidelines.
Own-Free-Website.com is a service for creating a free homepage without coding skills. It offers a short ".page.tl" domain ending, up to 1 gigabyte of free web space, design templates, and features such as a guestbook, hit counter and survey function. Premium packages are available for extending a site.
SSL For Free issues free SSL and wildcard certificates through ZeroSSL, including via ACME, a web app and a REST API. It offers paid Basic, Premium and Business packages with monthly or yearly billing, plus tutorials for installing certificates on various server and hosting platforms. Private keys are generated and encrypted on the user's device.
Dia is free, open-source drawing software for creating structured diagrams. A Windows version is available as a free download, and the download page also provides packages for Mac OS X and Linux. The software is released under the GNU General Public License, GPLv2.
Capture2Text is a free, GPL-licensed Windows utility that OCRs a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut and saves the resulting text to the clipboard by default. It supports Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10 and packages several OCR languages, with additional language dictionaries installable.
AnySoftKeyboard is a free and open source keyboard for Android. It supports over 50 languages through external packages with dictionaries and keyboards, and offers themes, incognito mode, smart predictions and gesture typing.
Birdfont is a free font editor that lets users create vector graphics and export TTF, OTF and SVG fonts. The editor supports monochrome and color font formats, and installers and source code packages are available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and BSD.
Bravenet is a web services provider offering free web tools, web hosting, domains, email and a site builder called SiteBlocks. Its tools include contact forms, online calendars, counters and site stats, online stores, message forums and guestbooks. Hosting packages include domains, email accounts, databases, SSL certificates and one-click software installs.
Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. It integrates with SCCM, Puppet, Chef, and similar tools. It offers packaging, internalizing, auditing and synchronizing tools, plus central management in its business edition. Pricing lists Open Source as free, Pro at $96/year, and Business from $18.00/license per year.
Dead Link Checker is an online tool that crawls a website to identify broken links. Free manual checking covers single and multiple sites, while subscription packages provide automated link checking. Multi Check runs checks across multiple websites in one go and emails the report; Auto Check runs checks regularly and emails reports automatically. The tool highlights broken link building opportunities and requires no downloads.
A portable app made with Portapps that packages Discord, a proprietary freeware VoIP application designed for gaming communities. The portable build forces the Electron user data path to a data folder and disables update checks. Portapps states it is not affiliated with Discord.
Display Driver Uninstaller is a freeware driver removal utility for Windows that removes AMD, NVIDIA and Intel graphics drivers and packages, including registry keys, folders, files and driver store. Version 18.1.6.1 adds Qualcomm cleanup options and more selective handling of driver extensions. Safe Mode is recommended for stability.
Drawing is a simple image editor for Linux inspired by Microsoft Paint and aimed at the GNOME desktop. It is described as a free basic raster image editor supporting PNG, JPEG and BMP files, and it works on GNU-Linux systems regardless of desktop environment. The project page states it is also available through Flatpak and native distribution packages.
FontSource is a platform for browsing, previewing, and downloading free open-source and variable fonts. It offers options to self-host web fonts via npm packages and CSS, with CDN links also available. As of the listing date, the platform hosts 2,100 font families, including popular options such as Inter Variable, Roboto Variable, and Geist Variable.
Fossies is a curated repository of selected free and open source software focused mainly on Internet, engineering and science. It lets users view archive contents and browse individual member files, and provides doxygen-generated source code documentation for most packages. It also offers package meta information and license file overviews.
FreeVPN offers accounts for SSH, OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP, WireGuard and V2Ray tunneling on its servers. The service states it provides free access with unlimited bandwidth and no hidden cost. Premium packages, including Silver, Bronze, Gold and Platinum, are listed with monthly prices and quotas for OVPN data and FreeCOIN.
Koha is a free and open source library management system. Its community, sponsored by libraries, volunteers and support companies, develops and releases the software. Documentation includes a Koha manual covering installation and use, developer documentation, and installation instructions via Debian packages on Debian or Ubuntu.
Lazarus is an open-source cross-platform IDE for Rapid Application Development powered by Free Pascal. It is Delphi compatible and includes a drag-and-drop form designer and over 200 components, and can convert from Delphi code. It is extendable through packages and has a package manager with an online repository. Documentation and tutorials are available through a wiki, forums and books.
GNU Octave is a programming language for scientific computing with mathematics-oriented syntax and built-in 2D/3D plotting and visualization tools. It is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License and runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, BSD, and Microsoft Windows. Its syntax is largely compatible with Matlab, and it can be extended by packages.
PeaZip is an open source cross-platform archive manager for Linux, macOS and Windows, offered as a freeware alternative to WinRar, WinZip and similar utilities. It creates, opens and extracts 7z, rar, tar and zip files and many more archive formats. Precompiled DMG packages are available for Darwin and macOS, built for Apple Silicon and Intel architecture.