NixBSD is an attempt to make a reproducible and declarable BSD, based on NixOS. Although theoretically much of this work could be copied to build other BSDs, all work thus far has been focused on building a FreeBSD distribution.
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Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Git
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- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
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- Linux
- FreeBSD
- Mac



smolBSD is a meta-operating system built on top of NetBSD. It lets you compose your own UNIX environment — from a single-purpose microservice system to a fully-custom OS image — in just a few minutes.
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- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
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- Mac
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- Linux
- BSD
- QEMU
- FreeBSD

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- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Linux
- Terminal
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- Fedora
- Nix Package Manager
- Mac
- Homebrew
- Rust
- MacPorts
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bhyve (pronounced "bee hive", formerly written as BHyVe) is a type-2 hypervisor that runs FreeBSD 9+, OpenBSD, Linux and MS Window desktop (versions Vista, 7, 8/8.1/8.2 and 10), as well as MS Windows Server (versions 2008/2008R2, 2012/2012R2 and 2016 Technical Preview...
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- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-2.1)
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- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo
- Fedora
- Wine
- Ubuntu
- Debian
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- MacPorts
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A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/Kube/S3/WebDAV.


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Youtui - a simple TUI YouTube Music player written in Rust aiming to implement an Artist->Albums workflow for searching for music, and using discoverability principles for navigation. Inspired by https://github.com/ccgauche/ytermusic/ and cmus.
Host web and TCP applications on the Internet from any network or device. Access databases, custom web apps, ssh, media servers and more. Connect to IP video cameras, automation sensors, point of sale systems, a Raspberry Pi, or other devices without a VPN or managing firewalls.
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- FreeBSD
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TmuxAI is an intelligent terminal assistant that lives inside your tmux sessions. Unlike other CLI AI tools, TmuxAI observes and understands the content of your tmux panes, providing assistance without requiring you to change your workflow or interrupt your terminal sessions.
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- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- FreeBSD
- Homebrew


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Cleanuperr is a tool for automating the cleanup of unwanted or blocked files in Sonarr, Radarr, and supported download clients like qBittorrent, Deluge and Transmission.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Docker
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- FreeBSD
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Docker
- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- FreeBSD
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Grafana Alloy is Grafana Labs’ distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. It is an OTLP-compatible collector with built-in Prometheus optimizations that also supports signals across metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.
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- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Mac
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- FreeBSD

ravynOS is a new open-source desktop operating system that aims to provide a similar experience and compatibility with macOS on x86-64 systems.


The FreeBSD jail mechanism is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization that allows system administrators to partition a FreeBSD-based computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails.
Diun is a CLI application written in Go to receive notifications when a Docker image is updated on a Docker registry. With Go, this app can be used across many platforms and architectures. This support includes Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows on architectures like amd64, i386...
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- FreeBSD
- Raspberry Pi
- Docker




Pinggy provides public URLs to localhost. With Pinggy users can create HTTP, TCP or TLS tunnels to their Mac/PC,
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