Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Best freeware list website for Linux software? Date: 9 Nov 2025 18:49:25 GMT Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <10epumo$3814o$1@dont-email.me> <10eqias$3dtgb$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Hr58xzjNqhVXqrny5AoMzgsu/Tjzocby5ikr1h/+kDNTdVOpCz Cancel-Lock: sha1:AR84smiyiw9fP37diOQz2fp+Zm8= sha256:hiOyptR6k+/5ziQNTZ59Miw2AKZKEXpr4ihBXcsRBYE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:77186 On Sun, 9 Nov 2025 17:17:16 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote: > John C. 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...