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BSD Watch

This list will be include BSD-related software that Github hosts. It may or may not be possible or desirable to boycott all projects that continue to develop and host with Github-- this list is for people who want to take Microsoft's control of repos into consideration when choosing what software to rely on.

NomadBSD

  • This Live BSD is developed on Github.


    • FreeBSD

  • FreeBSD is read-only for their three main Github repos, but they maintain pkg (the FreeBSD equivalent of apt-get) and an increasing number of administrative tasks on Github.


    • NetBSD

  • So far (not thoroughly evaluated) NetBSD is almost as good as OpenBSD, but they use Github for fundraising (among other options.)


    • OpenBSD

  • Probably the most Github-free BSD, at least in the mainstream. Does have software in ports (and some installed by default) which is Github-based. BSD_Watch will focus primarily on that:


    • GNU C Compiler

  • status: uses perl, uses python


    • GNU C Library

  • status: uses python


    • GNU nano

  • status: uses flex, uses os/2 support from github


    • GNU Wget

  • status: png in docs, uses brotli, uses zstd


    • less

  • (listed on www.gnu.org/software page) status:





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  • GNU_Watch
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