Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Portage

Portage

Portage is source-based package manager used by Gentoo and its descendants. It controls all process from fetching source through building it, installing into clean environment to "merging" with already installed software.

The top open-source alternatives to Portage are pkgsrc, Docker, and Homebrew. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

pkgsrc Landing Page
1

pkgsrc

pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 8 social mentions
Docker Landing Page
2

Docker

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Container Tools 62 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
3

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 877 social mentions
GNU Guix Landing Page
4

GNU Guix

Like Nix but GNU.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Developer Tools 90 social mentions
MacPorts Landing Page
5

MacPorts

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 5 social mentions
NixOS Landing Page
6

NixOS

25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions
Flatpak Landing Page
7

Flatpak

Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Developer Tools 84 social mentions
Zypper Landing Page
8

Zypper

Zypper is a command line package manager for openSUSE which makes use of libzypp.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Windows Tools
Vcpkg Landing Page
9

Vcpkg

C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 23 social mentions
Kubernetes Landing Page
10

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 283 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
11

Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions
Cakebrew Landing Page
12

Cakebrew

Homebrew GUI app for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools