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Top 23 System Open-Source Projects
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system-design-primer
Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
Project mention: Learn how to design large-scale systems. Includes Anki flashcards | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-12 -
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Project mention: JavaGuide: Comprehensive Java Learning and Interview Prep Resource | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-15
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Project mention: The Patterns of Scalable, Reliable, and Performant Large-Scale Systems | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-19
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glance
Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
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View on GitHub
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Blueprint UI
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ah maybe there's a fully rootless option recently too
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/30239
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SaaSHub
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Bash-Oneliner
A collection of handy Bash One-Liners and terminal tricks for data processing and Linux system maintenance.
Project mention: Bash-Oneliners: A collection of terminal tricks for Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-22 -
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LibreHardwareMonitor
Libre Hardware Monitor is free software that can monitor the temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of your computer.
Project mention: Libre Hardware Monitor: Fork of Open Hardware Monitor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-30 -
modern-font-stacks
System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern operating system
Project mention: System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-03 -
u-root
A fully Go userland with Linux bootloaders! u-root can create a one-binary root file system (initramfs) containing a busybox-like set of tools written in Go.
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iGlance
Free system monitor for OSX and macOS. See all system information at a glance in the menu bar.
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Visit the official GitHub page and download the tool.
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KubeArmor
Runtime Security Enforcement System. Workload hardening/sandboxing and implementing least-permissive policies made easy leveraging LSMs (BPF-LSM, AppArmor).
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System.Linq.Dynamic.Core
The .NET Standard / .NET Core version from the System Linq Dynamic functionality.
[14] https://dynamic-linq.net/ A FREE & Open Source LINQ Dynamic Query Library
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SaaSHub
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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).
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System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS
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Libre Hardware Monitor: Fork of Open Hardware Monitor
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Index
What are some of the best open-source System projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | system-design-primer | 298,950 |
| 2 | JavaGuide | 149,613 |
| 3 | awesome-scalability | 61,858 |
| 4 | glance | 28,589 |
| 5 | system-design-interview | 22,070 |
| 6 | @blueprintjs/core | 21,050 |
| 7 | systemd | 14,121 |
| 8 | Bash-Oneliner | 10,441 |
| 9 | Stacer | 9,032 |
| 10 | nezha | 8,729 |
| 11 | EntityComponentSystemSamples | 7,594 |
| 12 | LibreHardwareMonitor | 6,440 |
| 13 | modern-font-stacks | 3,000 |
| 14 | u-root | 2,750 |
| 15 | sysinfo | 2,446 |
| 16 | iGlance | 2,443 |
| 17 | ElevenClock | 2,446 |
| 18 | KubeArmor | 1,721 |
| 19 | System.Linq.Dynamic.Core | 1,635 |
| 20 | LaunchAtLogin | 1,595 |
| 21 | spiffs | 1,551 |
| 22 | ATSCAN | 1,465 |
| 23 | Ease | 1,259 |
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