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23,276 stars

copy/v86

x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

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Stars23,276
9,619 stars

diasurgical/devilutionX

Diablo build for modern operating systems

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Stars9,619
7,322 stars

home-assistant/operating-system

:beginner: Home Assistant Operating System

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Stars7,322
4,558 stars

openwrt/packages

Community maintained packages for OpenWrt. Documentation for submitting pull requests is in CONTRIBUTING.md

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Stars4,558
4,504 stars

cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat

The perfect emulation setup to study and develop the Linux kernel, kernel modules, QEMU, gem5 and x86_64, ARMv7 and ARMv8 userland and baremetal assembly, ANSI C, C++ and POSIX. GDB step debug and KGDB just work. Powered by Buildroot and crosstool-NG. Highly automated. Thoroughly documented. Automated tests. "Tested" in an Ubuntu 24.04 host.

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Stars4,504
3,561 stars

buildroot/buildroot

Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.

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Stars3,561
3,083 stars

PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64

Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe

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Stars3,083
2,760 stars

Entware/Entware

Ultimate repo for embedded devices

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Stars2,760
2,085 stars

corellium/projectsandcastle

Supporting tools for Android/Linux on the iPhone

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Stars2,085
2,081 stars

OpenIPC/firmware

Alternative IP Camera firmware from an open community

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Stars2,081
1,861 stars

thirtythreeforty/businesscard-linux

A Buildroot distribution small enough to run on my business card

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Stars1,861
1,815 stars

jens-maus/RaspberryMatic

:house: A lightweight, buildroot-based Linux operating system alternative for your CCU3, ELV-Charly or for running your "HomeMatic CCU" IoT central as a pure virtual appliance (using Proxmox VE, VirtualBox, Docker/OCI, Kubernetes/K8s, Home Assistant, vmWare ESXi, etc.) or on your own RaspberryPi, Tinkerboard, ODROID, etc. SBC device...

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Stars1,815
1,449 stars

showmewebcam/showmewebcam

Raspberry Pi + High Quality Camera = High-quality USB Webcam!

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Stars1,449
1,222 stars

hifiberry/hifiberry-os

Linux distribution optimized for audio playback

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Stars1,222
1,221 stars

tinyclub/linux-lab

Docker/Qemu Based Linux Kernel Learning, Development and Testing Environment; New Linux ELF Video Course from this project author: https://www.cctalk.com/m/group/88089283

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Stars1,221
1,214 stars

Entware/Entware-ng

Entware-ng

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Stars1,214
804 stars

openmiko/openmiko

Open source firmware for Ingenic T20 based devices such as WyzeCam V2, Xiaomi Xiaofang 1S, iSmartAlarm's Spot+ and others.

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Stars804
788 stars

teslamotors/buildroot

Tesla's buildroot repository

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Stars788
571 stars

gamaral/rpi-buildroot

Buildroot overlay with a few personal tweaks for the Raspberry Pi

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Stars571
412 stars

nerves-project/nerves_system_br

Platform infrastructure for embedded Erlang/OTP, Elixir, and LFE projects

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Stars412
404 stars

dahliaOS/releases

dahliaOS ISO releases

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Stars404
387 stars

progrium/busybox

Busybox container with glibc+opkg

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Stars387
340 stars

rosywrt/luci-theme-rosy

Rosy Theme for LuCI [ OpenWrt-18.06 Branch Only ]

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Stars340
303 stars

tvlad1234/pico-rv32ima

Running Linux on RP2040 with the help of RISC-V emulation

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Stars303
289 stars

FunKey-Project/FunKey-OS

Buildroot-based embedded Linux OS for the FunKey S retro-gaming console

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Stars289
281 stars

OpenVoiceOS/ovos-buildroot

Open Voice Operating System - Buildroot edition is a minimalistic linux OS bringing the OVOS voice assistant to embbeded, low-spec headless and/or small (touch)screen devices.

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Stars281
279 stars

Optware/Optware-ng

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Stars279
273 stars

anmaped/openfang

The openfang is a bootloader, kernel and toolchain for devices using Ingenic T10 and T20 SOC

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Stars273
270 stars

Entware/Prehistoric-Entware

Prehistoric Entware

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Stars270
265 stars

TOLDOTECHNIK/buildroot-webkit

Buildroot WebKit fullscreen browser for Raspberry Pi. Suitable for HTML 5 user interfaces or digital signage / kiosk installations. It also can be used as a fullscreen video loop player. Ready to use RPi Zero/W and RPi 3 B SD card images are available.

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Stars265
265 stars

trojan-gfw/openwrt-trojan

trojan and its dependencies for OpenWrt

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Stars265
255 stars

open-power/petitboot

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Stars255
234 stars

nezticle/RaspberryPi-BuildRoot

The objective of this project is to provide an SDK and root file system for the Raspberry Pi that is lightweight and takes full advantage of the hardware available. The resulting image produced is small distro known as Bsquask (linux). The Bsquask SDK provides a GCC 4.6.3 toolchain for building armv6 binaries with the hardfloat ABI, as well as bootloaders, kernel image, rootfs, and development sysroot for the Raspberry Pi.

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Stars234
232 stars

ccrisan/thingos

A lightweight Linux OS for things.

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Stars232
213 stars

scutclient/scutclient

SCUT network client on Linux

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Stars213
210 stars

IronOxidizer/instant-pi

Achieving the fastest possible boot times with various Raspberry Pi devices

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Stars210
208 stars

leommxj/prebuilt-multiarch-bin

prebuilt binaries for multiple architeture

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Stars208
205 stars

humphd/browser-vm

A small Linux x86 VM meant for use in the browser

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Stars205
205 stars

coolsnowwolf/packages

Community maintained packages for OpenWrt.

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Stars205
202 stars

aodzip/buildroot-tiny200

Buildroot Package for F1C100s/200s

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Stars202
195 stars

digiampietro/hacking-gemtek

hacking-gemtek is a reverse engineering project for a Gemtek home router (WVRTM-127ACN), distributed in Italy by Linkem, with the purpose to modify the firmware, gain root access, recover default WiFi password. It includes an emulation environment based on Qemu and Docker, a firmware modification kit and a default WiFi password generator. The project follows the reverse engineering process described by the author in a talk at Hack In Paris 2019.

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Stars195
195 stars

PacktPublishing/Mastering-Embedded-Linux-Programming-Second-Edition

Mastering Embedded Linux Programming – Second Edition, published by Packt

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Stars195
195 stars

kerberos-io/kios

A Linux OS created by Buildroot which runs Kerberos Open Source out-of-the-box.

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Stars195
184 stars

YuzukiHD/Buildroot-YuzukiSBC

Buildroot Package Mainly for YuzukiHD Devices. Support Allwinner F1C100s/200s V3s V3x D1-H D1s T113 H616 BSP and Mainline

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Stars184
168 stars

furkantokac/buildroot

Buildroot fork customized for RPI3, iMX6, TK1, Qt, FastBoot.

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Stars168
163 stars

bargees/barge-os

Yet another lightweight Linux distribution for Docker containers

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Stars163
163 stars

vowstar/k210-linux-nommu

K210 run linux nommu (From Damien Le Moal's patch)

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Stars163
150 stars

cirros-dev/cirros

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Stars150
148 stars

hi35xx/hi35xx-buildroot

buildroot for hisilicon hi35xx series

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Stars148
146 stars

macosforge/darwinbuild

Darwinbuild is a collection of tools that assist compilation of the many projects contained in Darwin, the open source base of Apple's macOS operating system.

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Stars146
143 stars

flutter/buildroot

Build environment for the Flutter engine

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Stars143
142 stars

zehfernandes/rpi-webapplication

Text Guide and snippets to have 60fps web application using Raspberry

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Stars142
141 stars

homewsn/whsniff

Whsniff is a command line utility that interfaces TI CC2531 USB dongle with Wireshark for capturing and displaying IEEE 802.15.4 traffic at 2.4 GHz.

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Stars141
139 stars

OpenHisiIpCam/br-hisicam

Buildroot based sample firmware for HiSilicon`s System-On-a-Chip ip cameras

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Stars139
137 stars

JeffyCN/rockchip_mirrors

Mirrors of a few Rockchip BSP repositories, some others in https://github.com/JeffyCN/mirrors.

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Stars137
132 stars

openwrt/telephony

The telephony packages feed

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Stars132
130 stars

Metrological/buildroot

Buildroot Environment for multiple TV WebKit ports using EGL and GLESv2, supporting WebGL, Canvas, HTML5 Video as a texture and more. One of the target devices supported is the Raspberry PI 2.

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Stars130
130 stars

unframework/licheepi-nano-buildroot

Config files for full Lichee Pi Nano Linux image build

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Stars130
118 stars

c-sky/buildroot

Buildroot for T-HEAD XuanTie CPU Series

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Stars118
117 stars

noonien/docker-openwrt-buildroot

A docker container for the OpenWRT buildroot.

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Stars117
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