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Top 18 C Daemon Projects
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Kargo
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Once I finish installing Hyprland, I moved on to installing missing packages for audio and software I normally use. For audio, I'm using pipewire.
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Clight
A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.
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AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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udisks
The UDisks project provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage devices and technologies.
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neowall
GPU-accelerated live wallpaper engine for Linux using GLSL shaders. Runs on Wayland and X11.
Project mention: NeoWall: Run Shadertoy GLSL shaders as 60 FPS Wayland wallpapers (C, <2% CPU) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-01 -
AqualinkD
Daemon to control Jandy Aqualink RS pool equipment from any home automation hub (Alexa, Homekit & Siri, Home Assistant, smartthings, domoticz etc) or web browser.
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ozhium-ollium
A daemon that monitors Linux backlight and PulseAudio volume changes and triggers a UI callback when they occur
GitHub: https://github.com/Nithin-3/ozhium-ollium
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SaaSHub
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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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PipeWire: Greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux
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PSA: udisks2 issues
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UDisks 2.10 Released With Native NVMe Support, LVM2 RAID
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Daemon projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | keepalived | 4,675 |
| 2 | FreeRADIUS | 2,583 |
| 3 | pipewire | 2,150 |
| 4 | usbmuxd | 1,757 |
| 5 | Clight | 793 |
| 6 | ngircd | 574 |
| 7 | btpd | 534 |
| 8 | udisks | 443 |
| 9 | xsuspender | 353 |
| 10 | neowall | 260 |
| 11 | AqualinkD | 235 |
| 12 | watchdogd | 217 |
| 13 | joker | 213 |
| 14 | nDPId | 97 |
| 15 | daemon | 20 |
| 16 | onekey-bridge | 8 |
| 17 | phttpd | 0 |
| 18 | ozhium-ollium | 0 |
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