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Re: Best freeware list website for Linux software?

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On Sun, 9 Nov 2025 17:17:16 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

> John C. <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> For Windows, I use Snapfiles and a few other groups that I trust to
>> always provide safe-to-use freeware.
>> 
>> What then, is the most popular and safest website for linux freeware
>> programs?
>> 
>> TIA.
> 
> Really Depends on your distro.  For Slackware it is
> https://slackbuilds.org/
> 
> Your distro probably has their own repository, maybe even multiple
> repositories.
> 
> I heard Arch Linux had issues with one of their repositories many weeks
> ago, but I think those issues are fixed now.  I do not remember details.

AUR had a DDoS attack in August. There was also a RAT discovered in one of 
the packages. NPM and PyPI have also been hit with supply chain attacks. 
It's a dangerous world.

It's enough to make you paranoid. Take something like Ventoy which allows 
multiple isos to reside on a USB stick. Very handy and used by a lot of 
people but the package does include some opaque binary blobs. It doesn't 
help that the author is Chinese. Helpful guy with a good idea or...

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