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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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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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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 open-source projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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