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Top 23 C open-source Projects
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VideoLAN Client (VLC)
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
Project mention: VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-09It can actually send to Google the media you are playing:
https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad...
and to their own servers:
https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad...
should could fetch subtitles as the same time ?
edit: cf, what "a3w" says too.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Project mention: One-Click Setup for SSH Login, Password Policy, IP Ban Configuration, and Custom Admin User Creation | dev.to | 2025-02-06
Antivirus for Linux: Shellpub, ClamAV
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freeswitch
FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a versatile software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. From a Raspberry PI to a multi-core server, FreeSWITCH can unlock the telecommunications potential of any device.
Oh, and if Asterisk isn't your thing, check out FreeSwitch - another rock-solid open source option that's been powering VoIP systems since 2006. It was actually created by former Asterisk developers who wanted to build something more modern. Go figure. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Project mention: Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-18
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Project mention: Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-30
Some modern systems use an ethernet kludge known as LXI. https://github.com/lxi-tools/lxi-tools works easily: lxi screenshot -a See https://github.com/lxi-tools/lxi-tools/wiki#background-infor... or example workflow at https://github.com/vk2diy/adxi/blob/main/kicad-pcbs/adxi/REA...
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fortune-mod
Implementation of the Unix fortune command for displaying a random quotation, for Linux and other systems.
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One
One (onelang) is an open-source system programming language that makes it easy to build reliable, efficient and performant software. (release as soon) 1️⃣ 🕐 🩱 (by One-Language)
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BetterSpades
BetterSpades, an Ace of Spades client targeted at low end systems (GL/ES 1.1). Runs on your grandmother's rig!
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nitrokey-fido2-firmware
FIDO2 USB token optimized for security, extensibility, and style. A fork of Solo key.
Project mention: Yubikey still selling old stock with vulnerable firmware | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-11> The Nitrokey seems like a good option <https://www.nitrokey.com/>.
My experience with Nitrokey is different. I trust Yubico for my threat model, I just don't trust Nitrokey at all. They seem to have more products than employees and in my experience they have a history of advertising/selling features they don't have.
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wim-backup
Win32-based UI application for backup and restore of Windows-based system images (Windows partition) using Windows Imaging Format (WIM) in WinPE environment.
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tirdad
TCP ISN CPU Information Leak Protection. TCP Initial Sequence Numbers Randomization to prevent TCP ISN based CPU Information Leaks.
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crescent
A fighting and beat em up game engine for windows, linux, and macos written in C and uses OpenGL. (by Chukobyte)
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SDL2-GNUBoy
A Gameboy and Gameboy Color Emulator for Windows, Mac, and Linux (An sdl2 focused fork of GNUBoy) (by AlexOberhofer)
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minexmr2
First open-source Monero mining pool using decentralized p2pool as a hashrate-liquidity provider for frequent payouts (approx. 2.1 times/hour)
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fundamental
Software to look for interrelationships between constants and find formulas for number sequences (by djbarrow)
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Index
What are some of the best open-source open-source projects in C? This list will help you:
# | Project | Stars |
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1 | VideoLAN Client (VLC) | 15,561 |
2 | clamav | 5,085 |
3 | freeswitch | 4,074 |
4 | tio | 2,396 |
5 | cdogs-sdl | 946 |
6 | OpenRTX | 697 |
7 | lxi-tools | 536 |
8 | fortune-mod | 464 |
9 | One | 289 |
10 | BetterSpades | 263 |
11 | fanpico | 157 |
12 | nitrokey-pro-firmware | 120 |
13 | OpenStorm | 98 |
14 | naikari | 82 |
15 | chopstx | 68 |
16 | fanboy | 56 |
17 | nitrokey-fido2-firmware | 55 |
18 | wim-backup | 55 |
19 | tirdad | 50 |
20 | crescent | 43 |
21 | SDL2-GNUBoy | 32 |
22 | minexmr2 | 30 |
23 | fundamental | 19 |