gnu/linux » rarewares
proudly offering, for your geeky pleasure and barrage of tasteless jokes... ""The RareWares Debian GNU/Linux Repository for Sid/Unstable" ...yikes, that's a mouthfull. ANYWAYS, rarewares is the bastard child of roberto, a good friend of mine. the focus of RW is on rare, hard-to-find, custom and "potentially illegal in your local area" software - if you get the picture... (about the focus being on audio software, of course). With the repository at rarewares, i try to stick to the "where did you get that?" idea, but that just isn't too useful sometimes, so the gems of the repository are the many compiles of lame and oggenc and other usable software like this :)
currently at more than 240 packages and climbing, the rarewares repository has a pretty broad range of software now (well, at least compared to it's birth, when it was basically limited to lossy audio codecs - lame in particular). the huge amount of quality OSS/FOSS out there that truely serves a useful purpose is on fine display here. software now covers all multimedia, as well as file format conversion, burning utilities, and the requisite dependencies that happen to be absent from the debian repositories - sometimes i package something an official maintainer is slacking on, but i try to avoid doing that since it will be deprecated eventually...
also... i tried something different with rarewares. instead of just giving you an apt repository and having you fend for yourselves, i decided to revamp the html and give a nice scenic tour of the many unofficial software packages available from a retail store near you (tm). i hope it provides an easier to follow/understand/update/upgrade method for both the browsee and maintainer (me) - that is, when i remember to update the html :)