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Finding Freeware Listing Sites?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-the-nearest-mountaintop dept.

A not-so Anonymous Coward asks: "CNET's download.com has become a 'pay to list' service, so it doesn't make sense to list freeware there, anymore. What are the best alternatives? Also, you cannot post linux software there anymore for any price: 'Note: We are no longer accepting any new submissions for Linux, and we will be discontinuing all coverage of Linux on our download sites shortly.' What is the hard working but generous coder supposed to do?"

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  1. The answer: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is the hard working but generous coder supposed to do?

    Start writing Windows shareware obviously.

    1. Re:The answer: by leifm · · Score: 4, Funny

      When I was taking VB6, which was unfortunately required for my degree, my teacher was sitting in class one day 'coding' something, and someone asks him what he's doing. And he says with a straight face "I'm writing a screensaver that will display pictures from a directory and after 5 pictures it locks up and they have to pay me $30 to continue using it"

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  2. A few for the newbie... by singularity · · Score: 5, Informative

    A few that some newbies may not have thought about:

    FreshMeat, which will do a lot for your Linux software needs.

    SourceForge for GPL software hosting (CVS and bug tracking, even)

    For a more general software needs, VersionTracker, which started with Mac software, now lists Mac, OS X, Windows, and Palm software. For anything other than Macintosh listings, though, it tends to be somewhat limited.

    Tocows also lists a lot of software. I have not looked through their Linux listings, but the Mac listings are pretty decent.

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  3. www.nonags.com by michaelredux · · Score: 5, Informative

    www.nonags.com identifies "free" (as in beer) software that has "no nags" (no nag screens or crippled features). they have a good selection of open source software as well as "freely-distributable" (binary only) software.