Open Source Can't Coordinate

1. xserver

   1 37 4,769 9.9 C

   XLibre Xserver

   

   I got curious and found a ton of red flags in about half hour...

   Summary of the drama that resulted in Xlibre: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/weekly-recap-8-june-2025/50638

   From the README at https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver:

   > This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed.

   This exchange between him and Torvalds in 2021:

   - https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/903

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. Pandas

   2 449 49,518 10.0 Python

   Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

   

4. imgui

   3 390 75,663 9.8 C++

   Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

   

5. egui

   4 238 30,062 9.6 Rust

   egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native

   

6. hotspot

   5 21 5,132 7.7 C++

   The Linux perf GUI for performance analysis.

   

   > I suspect that I have an outdated version of hotspot Linux profiler, but I can’t just go and download a fresh release from GitHub, because hotspot is a KDE app, and I use NixOS.

   KDE (not to be confused with the Plasma desktop) is just a bunch of C++ libraries that can work on a variety of desktop environments and even OSes (though Hotspot being a perf report alternative is clearly meant for use with Linux).

   I just went and downloaded the latest CI build from[0] and it ran just fine on my openSUSE Tumbleweed, running Xorg with Window Maker. I do have a bunch of KDE apps installed, like Kate (my currently preferred text editor), Dolphin (the file manager i use whenever i want thumbnails, usually for videos and images), Spectacle (for screenshots), Falkon (i use it as a "clean" browser to test out things), etc so i also do have the KDE libraries on my system, but that is just a `zypper install` away. Or an `apt-get install` or `pacman -S` or whatever package manager your distro uses, i've used a bunch of them and they all pretty much behaved the same. I'd expect Hotspot to be installable in the same way in any of them.

   If there are issues with NixOS (i don't know, i haven't tried it) i think it might actually be a NixOS issue and not a KDE issue.

   [0] https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/releases/tag/continuous

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