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> You claimed "Ventoy adds repos". It does not. It is incapable of doing anything of the kind. It does not run on the installed system. It does not modify the boot media in any way. This is demonstrable and verifiable.
It literally adds an rdinit to the kernel boot line that hijacks the boot process and messes with it in a shell script. This is demonstrable and verifiable: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/master/IMG/cpio/ventoy...
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AppSignal
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In my case, I decided to go with a compositor instead of desktop environment. I have already used others windows tilling managers such as i3wm. This time, I want something that has more features out-of-the-box.
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The whole thing is three runtimes glued together. DragonRuby GTK (mRuby) handles the game side: scenes, UI, sprite rendering, the per-tick game loop, the XP and tier-progression system. Pure Data, embedded via libpd, handles every audio sample: spectral analysis across four frequency bands, burst recording, the synthesis and effects chain, the feedback routing. A small custom C extension bridges the two via thread-safe ring buffers, with miniaudio doing cross-platform device I/O. The bridge is small because the contract between Ruby and Pd is small: numbers in, numbers out.
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Project mention: Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-07
No. Most cups changes nowadays happen in https://github.com/openprinting/cups?tab=readme-ov-file
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snoopy
Snoopy Command Logger is a small library that logs all program executions on your Linux/BSD system.
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Kargo
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Project mention: Bfs: A breadth-first version of the Unix find command | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-02
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InitWare
The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. Its main component is a service management ("init") system.
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Project mention: ESP32-S31: 320MHz 2C RV32IMAFCP+CLIC, 512KB SRAM, GbE, 802.11ax, 61 GPIO | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-03
There is μClinux [1] although it is not clear to me how much alive is the project
I wish I could run DiscoBSD/RetroBSD [2] on an ESP32, I like the idea of running on a MCU something that was originally meant for a PDP/11 (2.11 BSD)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CClinux
[2] https://github.com/chettrick/discobsd
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toot
a beep that really beeps - cross-platform command line tool to toot "tooot" - it's also a C C++ library (by vareille)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Bsd projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ventoy | 79,239 |
| 2 | i3 | 10,567 |
| 3 | htop | 8,310 |
| 4 | miniaudio | 7,227 |
| 5 | hidapi | 2,268 |
| 6 | cups | 1,739 |
| 7 | snoopy | 1,290 |
| 8 | bfs | 1,265 |
| 9 | i3lock-color | 1,200 |
| 10 | concord | 648 |
| 11 | DragonFlyBSD | 625 |
| 12 | mg | 616 |
| 13 | facebooc | 588 |
| 14 | ngircd | 574 |
| 15 | oksh | 456 |
| 16 | InitWare | 311 |
| 17 | discobsd | 245 |
| 18 | OpenVi | 198 |
| 19 | nvi2 | 196 |
| 20 | cats | 179 |
| 21 | toot | 173 |
| 22 | libmodule | 135 |
| 23 | src | 111 |
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