List of free software project directories

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, focus
SourceForge	largest directory, >500K projects[1]
Apache Software Foundation	Mostly Java[2]
Free Software Directory[3]	About 17000 packages with 386 GNU-packages and 97 High Priority Projects[4]
Open Hub (Formerly Ohloh)
Libraries.io	Open source libraries, frameworks and tools
ibiblio	Open source software
List of free and open-source software packages
AlternativeTo	General: can filter by license type "Open Source"

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

• Free and open-source software portal

• Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities