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Top 14 C++ Freebsd Projects
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warzone2100
Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+
Project mention: Ask HN: Which Do you know any open source games? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-10 -
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Project mention: Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-16
Intel has a Performance Monitoring Unit on its core that has significant overlap.
Forgetting this tool-space, but at least some of these tools can make use of that hardware:
https://github.com/intel/pcm https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools
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fast_float
Fast and exact implementation of the C++ from_chars functions for number types: 4x to 10x faster than strtod, part of GCC 12, MySQL, Chromium, Redis and WebKit/Safari
Project mention: fast_float VS str2num - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/fast_float | 2026-06-06 -
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filesystem
An implementation of C++17 std::filesystem for C++11 /C++14/C++17/C++20 on Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD.
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glsmac
Unofficial open-source OpenGL/SDL2 reimplementation of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ( + Alien Crossfire )
Project mention: OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-06There's https://github.com/afwbkbc/glsmac but that still has a lot of work to be put into.
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QEFIEntryManager
A userspace cross-platform EFI boot entry and EFI partition management GUI App based on Qt.
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SeriousSamClassic
Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS). Based on https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine and linux port https://github.com/icculus/Serious-Engine
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SeriousSamClassic-VK
Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic with Vulkan support (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS). Based on https://github.com/sultim-t/Serious-Engine-Vk and linux port https://github.com/icculus/Serious-Engine
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Project mention: Show HN: CodeOrb – Open-source µC debugging tool | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-23
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 Freebsd projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | warzone2100 | 3,842 |
| 2 | pcm | 3,285 |
| 3 | dwarfs | 2,560 |
| 4 | fast_float | 2,058 |
| 5 | freac | 1,880 |
| 6 | filesystem | 1,543 |
| 7 | Ymir | 923 |
| 8 | gsmartcontrol | 691 |
| 9 | glsmac | 582 |
| 10 | QEFIEntryManager | 316 |
| 11 | SeriousSamClassic | 175 |
| 12 | SeriousSamClassic-VK | 152 |
| 13 | powerdxx | 85 |
| 14 | code-orb | 14 |
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