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Open-source C projects categorized as Linux

Top 23 C Linux Projects

  1. linux

    Linux kernel source tree

    Project mention: A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-04

    - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. Netdata

    The open-source observability platform everyone needs

    Project mention: 16 Essential Tools for DevOps & SRE: Monitoring & Logging Mastery | dev.to | 2025-06-25
  4. Ventoy

    A new bootable USB solution.

    Project mention: 🛠️ Setting up Arch | dev.to | 2024-10-13

    Link to installing: Ventoy

  5. raylib

    A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

    Project mention: Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-09

    Very cool project, and well thought with the choice of Raylib or SDL2. But since Raylib can compile to Android (https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/examples/Makef...), do you think it could be difficult to add Android as a target platform ?

  6. WindTerm

    A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial terminal.

    Project mention: Show HN: WindTerm – Introducing a better Tmux experience | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-11
  7. cosmopolitan

    build-once run-anywhere c library

    Project mention: WebAssembly: Yes, but for What? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-08

    I guess https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan might just be the WebAssembly for the command line then.

  8. ish

    Linux shell for iOS

    Project mention: Show HN: Lume – OS Lightweight CLI/API for macOS/Linux VMs on Apple Silicon | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-02

    You can, with ish (https://ish.app). It is a bit slow though and doesn't support the newest releases. (Well and by default it runs Alpine instead of Debian)

  9. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  10. rofi

    Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

    Project mention: Wayland Application Launchers: Stick with Rofi | dev.to | 2025-05-11

    Today is a lazy Sunday, and I did what nobody should do on a Sunday: Spend time trying to replace something that already works. This time, my victim was rofi.

  11. ecapture

    Capturing SSL/TLS plaintext without a CA certificate using eBPF. Supported on Linux/Android kernels for amd64/arm64.

    Project mention: Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-08
  12. systemd

    The systemd System and Service Manager

    Project mention: Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-09

    Is this a reference to https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5644#issuecomment-... ?

  13. GLFW

    A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

    Project mention: Starting Up The Engine - Nikola Game Engine Devlog 1 | dev.to | 2025-02-28

    As I discussed in my previous devlog, I decided to go with glfw for handling the window creation for this engine. It is a library I used a ton before. And while I do fancy replacing it later, it will suffice for now.

  14. zapret

    DPI bypass multi platform

    Project mention: The Russian people have essentially lost access to the internet | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-12
  15. nmap

    Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.

    Project mention: 6 Powerful Free Security Tools That Will Surprise You | dev.to | 2024-10-09

    Tool Link: https://github.com/nmap/nmap

  16. WCDB

    WCDB is a cross-platform database framework developed by WeChat.

  17. tini

    A tiny but valid `init` for containers

    Project mention: Tini: A tiny but valid `init` for containers | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-20
  18. TheFatRat

    Thefatrat a massive exploiting tool : Easy tool to generate backdoor and easy tool to post exploitation attack like browser attack and etc . This tool compiles a malware with popular payload and then the compiled malware can be execute on windows, android, mac . The malware that created with this tool also have an ability to bypass most AV software protection .

  19. i3

    A tiling window manager for X11

    Project mention: The Cybershard Keyboard Layout | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-27
  20. nvtop

    GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm

  21. AppImageKit

    Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

    Project mention: Show HN: Finic – open-source platform for building browser automations | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-17

    Like again if you are not sure, what open source means, this is open source: https://appimage.org/

    Hope it is abundantly clear with this example. Docker tried it's best to do the whole open source but business first and it led to disastrous results.

    At best this will make your company suffer and second guess itself and at worst this is moral fraud.

    Talk to your group partner about this and explain to them as well.

  22. progress

    Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv)

    Project mention: Show HN: ProgressLine – Track commands progress in a compact one-line format | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-18

    A related tool, except for monitoring I/O, is Progress [1].

    Imagine that behind the scenes it does something like lsof every second (-m flag) and tracks the progress of any file open by the specified process(es) (-c or -a flags). Works great for copying and downloading, doesn't work for rewriting in-place.

    This reminds me that I wanted to modify my GNU Screen hardstatus to call it.

    [1] https://github.com/Xfennec/progress

  23. MangoHud

    A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb

    Project mention: MangoHud | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-13
  24. htop

    htop - an interactive process viewer

    Project mention: Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-08

    I like that the U.S. Graphics Company link has a bunch of TUI examples.

    htop came to mind.

    https://htop.dev/

    Here's a gallery of a bunch of TUI apps.

    https://www.linuxlinks.com/100-awesome-must-have-tui-linux-a...

  25. sysbench

    Scriptable database and system performance benchmark

    Project mention: Database Stress Testing: Why It Matters and How to Get Started | dev.to | 2025-01-09

    Sysbench: Ideal for benchmarking and stress testing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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 Linux projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 linux 197,655
2 Netdata 75,034
3 Ventoy 69,178
4 raylib 27,186
5 WindTerm 27,098
6 cosmopolitan 19,552
7 ish 18,246
8 rofi 14,596
9 ecapture 14,462
10 systemd 14,355
11 GLFW 13,963
12 zapret 11,888
13 nmap 11,349
14 WCDB 11,197
15 tini 10,481
16 TheFatRat 10,118
17 i3 10,010
18 nvtop 9,310
19 AppImageKit 9,057
20 progress 8,695
21 MangoHud 7,388
22 htop 7,215
23 sysbench 6,421

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