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24 alternatives to Deb-simple a lightweight, bare-bones apt repository server

A lightweight, bare-bones apt repository server. Contribute to esell/deb-simple development by creating an account on GitHub.

Deb-simple is a lightweight apt repository server for Debian and Ubuntu packages. It's designed for developers and system administrators who need a minimal, bare-bones solution for hosting package repositories without… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Deb-simple a lightweight, bare-bones apt repository server launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A lightweight, bare-bones apt repository server. Contribute to esell/deb-simple development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Super simple Debian packages. Contribute to hoffa/debpack development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    DepsHub▲349

    Update dependencies using AI

    2024 · depshub.com · its alternatives →

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    The Unified and Autonomous Development Platform. Contribute to theonedev/onedev development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Unubo 2.0▲324

    Simplest way to deploy your web apps, APIs and databases

    2019 · unubo.com · its alternatives →

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    Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers. You start by defining the list of packages required by your development environment, and devbox uses that definition to create an isolated environment just for your application. In practice, Devbox works similar to a package manager like yarn – except the packages it manages are at the operating-system level (the sort of thing you would normally install with brew or apt-get). See it in action: https://youtu.be/WMBaXQZmDoA

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Source realtime backend in 1 file. Contribute to pocketbase/pocketbase development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Undb▲243

    Open source Airtable alternative & backend as a service

    2024 · 2ndline.io · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2018 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    A webview based GitHub project app with native features

    2017 · justinfincher.github.io · its alternatives →

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    DebOps - Your Debian-based data center in a box. Contribute to debops/debops development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been in the MLOps space for ~10 years, and data is still the hardest unsolved open problem. Code is versioned using Git, data is stored somewhere else, and context often lives in a 3rd location like Slack or GDocs. This is why we built XetHub, a platform that enables teams to treat data like code, using Git. Unlike Git LFS, we don’t just store the files. We use content-defined chunking and Merkle Trees to dedupe against everything in history. This allows small changes in large files to be stored compactly. Read more here:…

    2022 · xethub.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I just released go-nbd, a lightweight Go library for effortlessly creating NBD servers and clients. Its a neat tool for creating custom Linux block devices with arbitrary backends, such as a file, byte slice or what I'm planning to use it for, a tape drive. While there are a few partially abandoned projects like this out there already, this library tries to be as maintainable as possible by only implementing the most recent handshake revision and baseline functionality for both the client and the server, while still having enough support to be useful. I'd love to get your feedback :)

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Package repositories don't need to be complicated. They're just static files: metadata indexes and the packages themselves. Yet somehow hosting your own feels like you need dedicated infrastructure and deep knowledge of obscure tooling. repogen is an SSG for package repos. Point it at your .deb/.rpm/.apk files, it generates the static structure, you upload to S3 or any web host. Done. $0.02/month to host packages for your whole team. It supports Debian, RPM, Alpine, Pacman, and Homebrew. Has incremental mode for updating repos without redownloading everything. Handles…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    hey guys. the other day i was migrating hosting providers and i just needed something not too heavy and convenient to spin up my backups for awhile and realised there is almost nothing out there. kimchi hasn't been updated for years and cockpit is heavy. so here's something i came up with in a couple hours because of a sudden urge, nothing fancy just basic creation with cloud init, lifecycle management and image/storage, but it's modern-ish and it compiles to a 8.4mb binary inclusive of the embedded web UI, CLI and API, and only dep is libvirt.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A bunch of developers and myself have created RepliByte - an open-source tool to seed a development database from a production database. Features: - Support data backup and restore for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB - Replace sensitive data with fake data - Works on large database (> 10GB) (read Design) - Database Subsetting: Scale down a production database to a more reasonable size - Start a local database with the prod data in a single command - On-the-fly data (de)compression (Zlib) - On-the-fly data de/encryption (AES-256) - Fully stateless (no server, no daemon) and lightweight…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Fast, secure, configurable. A bold new take on Nix caching.

    2024 · determinate.systems · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We've been experimenting with a real-time, version-controlled NoDB for Deno & React called GoatDB. The idea is to remove backend complexity while keeping apps fast, offline-resilient, and easy to self-host. Runs on the client – No backend required, incremental queries keep things efficient. Self-hosted & lightweight – Deploy a single executable, no server stack needed. Offline-first & resilient – Clients work independently & can restore state after server outages. Edge-native & fast – Real-time sync happens locally with minimal overhead. Why We Built It: We needed something that’s…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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