BSD alternatives, user-end applications

Latest revision as of 20:39, 1 November 2015

Here are common BSD, other non-proprietary, and select proprietary licensed equivalents for common user-end application needs. Many listed programs are for desktop applications.

[edit] PDF creation

• Print/scribus

[edit] Word Document

• editors/abiword

[edit] Science and Math

• math/sage GPL replaces Matlab, Mathematica, Magma, Maple

[edit] Database

• databases/sqlitebrowser - graphical SQLite database

[edit] Desktop

BSD style desktops/window managers with BSD/MIT/ISC/Apache compatible licenses. Primary dependencies are BSD based.

• x11-wm/ctwm twm extension
• x11-wm/cwm Calm Window Manager is OpenBSD's default window manager
• x11-wm/dwm uses c programming language for custom desktop configuration
• x11-wm/fluxbox is based on x11-wm/blackbox which was developed for FreeBSD
• x11-wm/matwm2
• x11-wm/mcwm based on ctwm, evilwm, tinywm
• x11-wm/spectrwm tiling window manager. based on dwm and xmonad
• x11-wm/wmfs floating and tile window manager
• x11-wm/wmii
• x11/lumina desktop built for FreeBSD, it uses fluxbox and relies on the qt toolkit

[edit] Ports management

Port management programs with minimal dependencies and MIT/BSD style licenses.

• ports-mgmt/pchecker - checks the ports tree for errors
• ports-mgmt/portfind - search for ports. portfind relies on perl.
• ports-mgmt/portmaster - upgrade ports. portmaster has no dependencies
• ports-mgmt/portsearch - search for ports. has no dependencies.