Is there any list of pirated software in Linux?

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I am using Fedora already 6 months, … and I remember that almost all Windows software is pirated (at least in my region).

Is there any list of software pirated for Linux? (compatible for Fedora Silverblue)

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Do you have something in particular you are looking for? We should be help with a specific request.

Helping with pirated software isn’t something we do here.

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I have not anything specific to search.

My question is any software in general.

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If you want cracked Linux software, then you’ll find it on all the same places you’d find cracked Windows, Mac and Android software.

Of course, running “knowingly tampered with” software has its own exciting issues, so you’re on your own dealing with the fallout at that point.

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Forum software (IPB, Vbulletin, etc) was a thing that theoretically could run on a Linux PHP stack :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’ve never seen a specific guide, but the usual process would be as follows:

  • learn to code to you have at least a basic idea of how software is written and how it operates.
  • learn assembly for the architecture you’re interested in. You don’t need to be a wizard, but you do need to be aware of how flags are set on that architecture and what the operators actually do, along with their operands.
  • learn how to debug compiled code in your preferred debugger - gdb/ghidra/whatever you prefer.
  • learn how to reverse engineer (potentially) obfuscated code to set breakpoints on license and/or key checks and patch those checks out.
  • practise, a lot.

At this point and with this level of knowledge, you will realise that you probably have sufficient knowledge to write the software you’re cracking in the first place, so you might as well just do that.

You’ll also come to the conclusion that your time is worth far more than the cost of the software you’re spending so much time cracking, so if you want it, it’s cheaper, easier and faster to just buy it.

However, I do actively encourage you to pursue this, you will learn so much. It will also be quite hard to “get good” so do not underestimate the amount of effort you will have to put in. Think in the thousands of hours, but those thousands of hours will be great fun and surprisingly annoying in equal amounts. You will benefit from it, though, overall.

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