useful-forks.github.io VS active-forks

Here "branches" is for Git branches - or, rather, forks - of the emulator project. It means checking GitHub (or https://useful-forks.github.io/) to see if any individual developers have recently forked the project and made new commits. If so, you can try to build the updated project, and see how it goes.

Find alternatives or use useful fork

gorilla/mux is at least more battle-tested. I'd rather fork it myself, or evaluate a useful fork of it such as this one (if it seems well-maintained, I haven't done the leg-work).

An acquaintance of mine built this: https://github.com/useful-forks/useful-forks.github.io

2. accessing an app running on a windows through rdp, either as a full desktop or as a standalone window.[1] OK granted you are still using windows in that case, in the background, but you can do that only sporadically by launching a cloud windows vm instance for the small amount of time in a year you definitely need that dirty OS for personnal use.

Obviously YMMV but the barrier is mostly psychological imho.

[1] I think there was a project to facilitate that for office, adobe applications called winapps, see the different active forks here:

https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#Fmstrat/w...

there is also this:

I know about https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks, however this "only" shows the time of last activity which is not too bad, but not exactly what I'd like to have, since this provides no indication on the (possible) progress of the project (if one could measure progress in units of commits)...

I stumbled upon this tool: https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks. But it didn't help, it didn't work on my repo.

It is abandoned for 4 years, found most active fork(nice tool) of this, which is up to date and have cutting edge tools awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

Chrome: Bookmark any page > Click More > (change name) and paste code from https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks into URL section > Save

mentat was archived by mozilla back in 2017, but there are a bunch of forks. Because github is dumb and has a terrible interface for exploring forks [0], I used the Active GitHub Forks tool [1] that helped to find:

qpdb/mentat [2] seems to be the largest (+131 commits) and most recently modified (May this year) fork of mozilla/mentat.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/mentat/network/members - Seriously, how am I supposed to use this? Hundreds of entries, but no counts for stars, contributors, or commits, no details about recent commits. Just click every one?

[1]: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

[2]: https://github.com/qpdb/mentat

Yeah, there is this tool: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

I'm really surprised Github doesn't leverage their data for better discovery. Instead you get forks that are second-class citizens and should never be used for active development. For example, they don't get watched by default and their code is not searchable.