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Top 14 C System Projects

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  1. 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-... ?

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  3. spiffs

    Wear-leveled SPI flash file system for embedded devices

  4. microwindows

    The Nano-X Window System

  5. dbus-broker

    Linux D-Bus Message Broker

  6. MollenOS

    MollenOS/Vali is a modern operating system that is built with focus on abstraction and a modular design, allowing anyone to port it to any architecture. It currently targets the x86-32 and x86-64 platform.

  7. 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.

    Project mention: InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-03

    Agree and so I went looking and here is the reason: https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/commit/3ee721035525dbb1....

    They started with a specific version of systemd and have been mutating it since then, so the whole this is "tainted" with LGPL now.

  8. hummingbird

    Hummingbird init system for Linux based operating systems. (by Sweets)

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  10. loksh

    A Linux port of OpenBSD's ksh

  11. pcg-random

    Haskell interface to the pcg random number generator

  12. interprocess

    Portable interprocess communication (IPC) in Haskell

  13. system-info

    A small library for getting the name of the OS

  14. fan_control

    Small application to control fan speeds on ThinkPad laptops in Linux

  15. mini_shell

    Mini shell made in C for Linux using GNU Readline Library

  16. htestu

    Library for testing Haskell PRNGs for correctness using TestU01 suite

  17. 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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  • DBus and Systemd

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2024

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    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 15 May 2023

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    3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 21 Oct 2022

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    3 projects | /r/Windows10 | 22 Jul 2022

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    3 projects | /r/tuxedocomputers | 17 Mar 2022

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    5 projects | /r/xmonad | 8 Dec 2021

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    2 projects | /r/osdev | 5 Aug 2021
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Index

What are some of the best open-source System projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 systemd 14,337
2 spiffs 1,558
3 microwindows 768
4 dbus-broker 730
5 MollenOS 451
6 InitWare 293
7 hummingbird 258
8 loksh 122
9 pcg-random 41
10 interprocess 13
11 system-info 9
12 fan_control 7
13 mini_shell 0
14 htestu 0

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