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Top 23 Python Linux Projects
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devops-exercises
Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions
Project mention: Struggling to Learn DevOps? Here’s How to Master It in Just 30 Days | dev.to | 2025-04-25DevOps Exercises Interview prep + practical questions
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Project mention: Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-25
the only data needed are the urls from https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/blob/master/she...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...
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Project mention: Plain – a web framework for building products with Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-28
There are some things available, and people are working on it. Coincidentally, one of those people is Russell Keith-Magee of Django fame, who founded the BeeWare project.
https://beeware.org/
https://beeware.org/about/team/freakboy3742/
https://kivy.org/
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Project mention: Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-15
Wasn't that the argument against https, namely, that it was too costly to run [1]? I also run fail2ban [2] in my servers and I rarely even notice it's there.
I'm not saying you should sit down with the iptables manual and start going through the logs, but I can see the idea taking off if all it takes is (say) one apt-get and two config lines.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1035283/will-it-ever-be-...
[2] https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban
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I hope that one day we have a tool that can convert any proprietary binary to source code with a single click. It would be so much fun to have an "open source" version of all games. Currently, there are projects like https://github.com/Try/OpenGothic and https://github.com/SFTtech/openage, but these require years of community effort.
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Project mention: Popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-14
I've found firejail to be a useful tool for this (https://github.com/netblue30/firejail), and additionally use opensnitch (https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch) to monitor for unexpected network requests.
For CI/CD using something like ArgoCD let's you avoid giving CI direct access to prod - it still needs write access to a git repo, and ideally some read access to Argo to check if deployment succeeded but it limits the surface area.
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shell_gpt
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ebook2audiobook
Convert ebooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata using dynamic AI models and voice cloning. Supports 1,107+ languages!
Project mention: Generating audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-15 -
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waydroid
Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
Project mention: Waydroid: Boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-01 -
Project mention: Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-28
For something like AirDrop this will need to be sorted out, but already work occurred to reverse engineer this: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
Would be cool if an open standard on auth forms on top of this.
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It's written for exploit development, but even for debugging a C program. It makes things a lot nicer.
https://pwndbg.re/
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pupy
Pupy is an opensource, cross-platform (Windows, Linux, OSX, Android) C2 and post-exploitation framework written in python and C
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jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
Project mention: Show HN: Jb / json.bash – Command-line tool (and bash library) that creates JSON | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-03How is this different to this https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
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gef
GEF (GDB Enhanced Features) - a modern experience for GDB with advanced debugging capabilities for exploit devs & reverse engineers on Linux
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Project mention: OpenSUSE package maintainer removes Bottles' donation button | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-19
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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
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Linux projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | devops-exercises | 76,698 |
| 2 | sherlock | 66,017 |
| 3 | hackingtool | 52,742 |
| 4 | linux-insides | 30,755 |
| 5 | kivy | 18,391 |
| 6 | Fail2Ban | 14,502 |
| 7 | openage | 13,658 |
| 8 | pwntools | 12,654 |
| 9 | opensnitch | 11,665 |
| 10 | shell_gpt | 10,964 |
| 11 | psutil | 10,673 |
| 12 | ebook2audiobook | 10,009 |
| 13 | youtube-dl-gui | 9,410 |
| 14 | waydroid | 9,312 |
| 15 | opendrop | 9,045 |
| 16 | pwndbg | 8,793 |
| 17 | pupy | 8,629 |
| 18 | jc | 8,222 |
| 19 | Ajenti | 7,735 |
| 20 | gef | 7,565 |
| 21 | Bottles | 7,116 |
| 22 | archinstall | 6,985 |
| 23 | persepolis | 6,669 |
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