man7.org
man7.org
Who runs man7.org, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Linux programming documentation alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- die.net
Measured from man7.org’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit man7.org01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs man7.org
man7.org
Wikidata: writer, Computer programmer
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What man7.org tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
15 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to man7.org
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to man7.org, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to man7.org match.
- 01
site news
Very close - 02
The Linux Kernel Archives
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Very close - 03
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Close - 04
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
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Funtoo Linux: What Comes Next
Official statement of direction: Funtoo Linux project status and future successor timeline.
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TecMint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides
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Close - 07
Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
Close - 08
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
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web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
Close - 10
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Close - 11
R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
programming language for statistical analysis
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FreeIPA - Identity, Policy, Audit — FreeIPA documentation
identity management system
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Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
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Close - 14
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Close - 15
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Close - 16
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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Arch Linux
Linux distribution
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Lodash
A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.
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Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
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Sphinx — Sphinx documentation
documentation generator which converts reStructuredText files into HTML
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles man7.org’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones man7.org uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what man7.org adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to man7.org’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/ga.js
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.58 (Ubuntu)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=6yqdzWtjBD9BVkrXEriCj0oCiw6p0kAOdZs09mcRoeg
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on man7.org 7/20
- nginx · not on man7.org 6/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on man7.org 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on man7.org 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on man7.org 5/20
- Fastly · not on man7.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on man7.org 3/20
- PHP · not on man7.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on man7.org 3/20
- jQuery · not on man7.org 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on man7.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on man7.org 2/20
- Apache HTTP Server 2/20
- GitHub Pages · not on man7.org 2/20