Top 20 Patch Open-Source Projects

1. wesng

   1 2 4,860 7.9 Python

   Windows Exploit Suggester - Next Generation

   

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3. xst

   2 6 540 5.7 C

   st fork that uses Xresources and some pretty good patches

   

   Project mention: Linux Terminal Memory Usage | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11

   i've been using xst https://github.com/gnotclub/xst, a fork of suckless st https://st.suckless.org/ for a long period, but there's also st-flexipatch https://github.com/bakkeby/st-flexipatch available which now includes sixel support

4. kernel-patches

   3 4 342 9.6

   Custom Linux kernel patches (by CachyOS)

   

5. patches

   4 94 308 4.7

   Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu (by bakkeby)

   

6. composer-patches

   5 1 301 8.2 PHP

   Applies a patch from a local or remote file to any package that is part of a given composer project. Patches can be defined both on project and on package level. Optional support for patch versioning, sequencing, custom patch applier configuration and composer command for testing/troubleshooting patches. (by vaimo)

   

7. Optimizing-linux

   6 4 270 5.7 Rust

   A simple guide for optimizing/improving linux performance🐧 in detail

   

8. vendor-patches

   7 2 189 6.7 PHP

   Patch your vendor files the easy way

   

9. popcap-patches

   8 4 184 0.0

   A collection of patched executables for PopCap games along with various bits of information regarding them. Patches include, but might not be limited to fixes for 3D acceleration as well as higher resolutions not working on recent versions of Windows.

   

10. batteryless-patches

    9 8 123 5.3

    Collection of batteryless gameboy game patches

    

11. security-patches-dataset

    10 1 106 0.0 Jupyter Notebook

    ☠️ Ground-truth dataset for vulnerability prediction (known research datasets and data sources included such as NVD, CVE Details and OSV); tools to automatically update the data are provided.

    

12. rce_patches

    11 17 77 4.3 C++

    Security and stability fixes for Wii U multiplayer games (Aroma)

    

13. modfs

    12 1 69 0.0 Shell

    modify firmware for NAND-flash based FRITZ!Box routers and install it on such a device

    

14. IPS-Peek

    13 2 67 0.0 C#

    IPS Peek is an IPS patch (International Patching System) exploration and testing tool.

    

15. zsun-resources

    14 2 55 7.2

    Zsun SD100 OpenWrt Resources

    

16. portage-bashrc-mv

    15 2 33 4.6 Shell

    Provide support for /etc/portage/bashrc.d and /etc/portage/package.cflags for the portage package manager (Gentoo Linux)

    

17. llm-patcher

    16 3 30 5.7 TypeScript

    Generate & Stream Patches of Changes and Save Tokens and Shortens Response Time

    

18. st

    17 52 24 5.4 C

    build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw (by mrdotx)

    

    Project mention: Linux Terminal Memory Usage | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11

    I've been using st-terminal[1] for 5-6 years at this point. It starts instantly, uses ~10mb of Ram and has almost zero latency. It's especially apparent on X11 without compositing enabled.

    I tried ghostty the last year and I was instantly turned off by how much ram it hogs, but even more horrible was that it was using close to 10% cpu just sitting idly, doing absolutely nothing. It also felt at least twice as slow.

    I need my terminal to display text, do scrollback and nothing else. I don't need gpu rendering, I don't need any fancy features, just be respectful to my system resources. Is it too much to ask?

    [1] https://st.suckless.org/

19. k2000

    18 1 20 0.0 Python

    A Python package for working with the Kurzweil K2000/K2500/K2600 family of synthesizers.

    

20. RemotePower

    19 4 2 - Python

    Self-hosted remote device management for Linux — shutdown, reboot, WoL, monitoring, CVEs, patches, etc. agent self-update — PIN enrollment, no inbound firewall rules, Nginx + Python CGI

    

    Project mention: RemotePower – self-hosted remote power management | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-05

21. plex-web-patches

    20 2 0 3.9

    Patches for plex-web for use in Plex Desktop and PMS (possibly app.plex.tv via browser extension in the future).

    

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