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Top 23 Python Linux Projects
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Wow, it's actually real.
https://old.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011
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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: 10 GitHub Repositories That Will Actually Teach You DevOps in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-05-05github.com/bregman-arie/devops-exercises. 82k stars. Maintained by Arie Bregman, ex-Red Hat.
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Project mention: Ask HN: What Toolchains Are People Using for Desktop App Development in 2025? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-09
Because I mainly work with python, I am using Kivy (https://kivy.org/).
Earlier I was HTMX, Jinja templates, Flask, Tailwind and little vanilla JS. It was too inelegant for my taste.
I am considering moving to either Swift, or JS/Svelete
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UFW blocks ports. fail2ban blocks behavior. Together they form your server's intrusion response layer — UFW narrows the attack surface, fail2ban watches the traffic that gets through and bans the IPs that misbehave.
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Project mention: OSS Alternative to Open WebUI – ChatGPT-Like UI, API and CLI | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-03
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Project mention: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-19
the pop-ups fatigue is already an issue, and not an easy one to solve. Pretty much like SIEM/SOC alerts.
> The trick is to infect a plugin that has a legitimate reason for accessing the internet or running certain commands, and then coming up with ways to abuse that to exfiltrate the data. Or exfiltrating via DNS queries, or some other vector that isn't so obvious as "allow TCP/UDP connections to the whole world".
They'll get there, maybe. But the reality is that right now, everyone allows outbound requests blindly.
Instead of speculating, I suggest to actually investigate current IOCs and common tactics of malicious npm/pip/plugins/VS extensions. Something like this:
https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/discussions/1119
Or use OpenSnitch (or Lulu, Glasswire, ZoneAlarm anyone?:D etc) to actually analyze real VS malicious extensions or npm packages and see if it stops the exfiltration, and if not, suggest ways to improve it. For example:
https://markdownpastebin.com/?id=9c294c75f09349d2977a4ccd250...
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shell_gpt
A command-line productivity tool powered by AI large language models like GPT-5, will help you accomplish your tasks faster and more efficiently.
Project mention: Supercharge Your Terminal: ShellGPT + ChromaDB + LangChain for Context-Aware Automation | dev.to | 2025-09-01🗃 To explore ShellGPT in depth, including installation instructions, usage examples, and advanced configuration options, head over to the official ShellGPT GitHub repository.
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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.
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Project mention: Week 1 — My First Open-Source Contribution (Hacktoberfest 2025) | dev.to | 2025-10-13
After registering on Hacktoberfest, I forked the repository, cloned it locally, and created a new branch using git checkout -b issue-3270-robust-dprintf. Since I use macOS, I installed Determinate Nix to emulate a Linux-like environment. Once inside the shell, I installed dependencies with python -m pip install -e ., which set up the project for local development.
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Project mention: Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-03
From a UX perspective Airdrop is super nice. I don't know if there are working implementations for other OSs. Just found this here but didn't yet test it https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop (hasn't been updated in 2 years, so maybe not too promising)
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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.
I guess I don't see those as big downsides because I don't think people usually want binary data or quoted strings back from a CLI command, nor do they want column oriented output, nor "user friendly" tables.
Answering --help with JSON is a good example, how bad is it really if the response is JSON? Well, using less works fine still and you can still grep if you want simple substring search. Wanting a section is probably more common, so maybe you'd "grep" for a subcommand with `jq .subcommand` or an option with `jq .subcommand.option`. Tables and tab-or-space delimited output overflow char limits, force the command-generator to figure out character wrapping, and so on. Now you need a library to generate CLI help properly, but if you're going to have a library why not just spit JSON and decouple completely from display details.
Structured output by default just makes sense for practically everything except `cat`. And while your markdown files or csv files might have quoted strings, looking at the raw files isn't something people really want from shells or editors.. they want something "rendered" in one way or another, for example with syntax highlighting.
Basically in 2025 neither humans nor machines benefit much from unstructured raw output. Almost any CLI that does this needs to be paired with a parser (like https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc) and/or a renderer (like https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow). If no such pairing is available then it pushes many people to separately reinvent parsers badly. JSON's not perfect but (non-minified) it's human-readable enough to address the basic issues here without jumping all the way towards binary or (shudder) HTML
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Project mention: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-11
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Project mention: Store birth date in systemd for age verification | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-19
He is trying to preemptively pave the road for these "age verification" laws in multiple open source projects related to linux:
- https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1...
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1...
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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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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).
Python Linux discussion
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RemotePower – self-hosted remote power management
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Show HN: Shaderbang – Shebang for Shaders
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NPM packages compromised, 271 antv, echarts-for-react, size-sensor, timeago
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I built a self-hosted Linux fleet manager with no database and zero pip dependencies
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Distro Chooser
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Integrates Android
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Build a reusable Terminator layout with pre-loaded commands per pane
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Linux projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sherlock | 84,589 |
| 2 | devops-exercises | 82,568 |
| 3 | hackingtool | 77,111 |
| 4 | linux-insides | 32,609 |
| 5 | ebook2audiobook | 19,168 |
| 6 | kivy | 18,952 |
| 7 | Fail2Ban | 17,924 |
| 8 | agent-zero | 17,922 |
| 9 | openage | 14,239 |
| 10 | opensnitch | 13,713 |
| 11 | pwntools | 13,528 |
| 12 | shell_gpt | 12,110 |
| 13 | waydroid | 11,489 |
| 14 | psutil | 11,186 |
| 15 | pwndbg | 10,513 |
| 16 | opendrop | 9,647 |
| 17 | youtube-dl-gui | 9,420 |
| 18 | jc | 8,621 |
| 19 | Bottles | 8,476 |
| 20 | archinstall | 8,256 |
| 21 | gef | 8,187 |
| 22 | Ajenti | 7,935 |
| 23 | auto-cpufreq | 7,571 |
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