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1-60 of 142 projects
34,081 stars

tailscale/tailscale

The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

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Stars34,081
23,717 stars

dylanaraps/neofetch

🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

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Stars23,717
6,304 stars

OpenDroneMap/ODM

A command line toolkit to generate maps, point clouds, 3D models and DEMs from drone, balloon or kite images. 📷

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Stars6,304
5,885 stars

ZoneMinder/zoneminder

ZoneMinder is a free, open source Closed-circuit television software application developed for Linux which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras.

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Stars5,885
5,099 stars

KDAB/hotspot

The Linux perf GUI for performance analysis.

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Stars5,099
4,752 stars

Security-Onion-Solutions/securityonion

Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections, and case management. It also includes other tools such as osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.

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Stars4,752
4,625 stars

madmalik/mononoki

a programming typeface

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Stars4,625
4,492 stars

Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux

Photoshop CC v19 installer for Gnu/Linux

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Stars4,492
4,449 stars

guysoft/FullPageOS

A raspberrypi distro to display a full page browser on boot

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Stars4,449
2,651 stars

guysoft/OctoPi

Scripts to build OctoPi, a Raspberry PI distro for controlling 3D printers over the web

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Stars2,651
2,629 stars

opencardev/crankshaft

Crankshaft: A turnkey GNU/Linux solution that transforms a Raspberry Pi to an Android Auto head unit.

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Stars2,629
2,226 stars

fsquillace/junest

The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, on top of any other Linux distro.

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Stars2,226
2,125 stars

apache/atlas

Apache Atlas - Open Metadata Management and Governance capabilities across the Hadoop platform and beyond

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Stars2,125
2,116 stars

phra/PEzor

Open-Source Shellcode & PE Packer

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Stars2,116
2,010 stars

Soundux/Soundux

🔊 A cross-platform soundboard

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Stars2,010
1,959 stars

systemd/mkosi

💽 Build Bespoke OS Images

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Stars1,959
1,852 stars

arkane-systems/genie

A quick way into a systemd "bottle" for WSL

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Stars1,852
1,768 stars

mszep/pandoc_resume

The Markdown Resume

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Stars1,768
1,764 stars

pypa/manylinux

Python wheels that work on any linux (almost)

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Stars1,764
1,760 stars

lwfinger/rtl8188eu

Repository for stand-alone RTL8188EU driver.

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Stars1,760
1,731 stars

joshiemoore/snakeware

A free Linux distro with a Python-based userspace

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Stars1,731
1,680 stars

shayne/go-wsl2-host

Automatically update your Windows hosts file with the WSL2 VM IP address

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Stars1,680
1,550 stars

pxlrbt/move-wsl

Easily move your WSL distros VHDX file to a new location.

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Stars1,550
1,536 stars

calamares/calamares

Distribution-independent installer framework

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Stars1,536
1,498 stars

lwfinger/rtw89

Driver for Realtek 8852AE, an 802.11ax device

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Stars1,498
1,457 stars

aws/eks-distro

Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) is a Kubernetes distribution based on and used by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to create reliable and secure Kubernetes clusters.

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Stars1,457
1,357 stars

okfn-brasil/querido-diario

📰 Diários oficiais brasileiros acessíveis a todos | 📰 Brazilian government gazettes, accessible to everyone.

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Stars1,357
1,211 stars

AnarchyLinux/installer

Anarchy Linux - A simple and intuitive Arch Linux installer. https://anarchyinstaller.org/

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Stars1,211
1,143 stars

zrepl/zrepl

One-stop ZFS backup & replication solution

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Stars1,143
1,034 stars

adi0x90/attifyos

Attify OS - Distro for pentesting IoT devices

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Stars1,034
923 stars

Gictorbit/illustratorCClinux

Illustrator CC v17 installer for Gnu/Linux

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Stars923
887 stars

lirios/fluid

Material Design for QtQuick and Qml

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Stars887
840 stars

cstrap/monaco-font

Install `Monaco Font` or other fonts on Linux distro (Ubuntu, CentOS...)

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Stars840
768 stars

jangernert/FeedReader

Modern desktop application designed to complement existing web-based RSS accounts.

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Stars768
749 stars

aws-observability/aws-otel-collector

AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (see ADOT Roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4)

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Stars749
705 stars

spencerdodd/kernelpop

kernel privilege escalation enumeration and exploitation framework

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Stars705
657 stars

akhilnarang/scripts

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Stars657
633 stars

makccr/dot

A repository to contain any and all of my personal application configuration files.

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Stars633
631 stars

opendistro-for-elasticsearch/sql

🔍 Open Distro SQL Plugin

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Stars631
608 stars

guysoft/CustomPiOS

A Raspberry Pi and other ARM devices distribution builder

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Stars608
580 stars

redcode-labs/easyWSL

Create WSL distros based on Docker Images.

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Stars580
571 stars

sabotage-linux/sabotage

a radical and experimental distribution based on musl libc and busybox

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Stars571
541 stars

instantOS/instantOS

instantOS - the out of the Box distro for powerusers

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Stars541
525 stars

ArchStrike/ArchStrike

An Arch Linux repository for security professionals and enthusiasts. Done the Arch Way and optimized for i686, x86_64, ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv8.

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Stars525
521 stars

StephanTLavavej/mingw-distro

MinGW distro build scripts.

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Stars521
475 stars

ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian

Debian, Ubuntu, and others packaging for ungoogled-chromium

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Stars475
448 stars

puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE

woof - the Puppy builder

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Stars448
448 stars

solus-project/linux-steam-integration

Helper for enabling better Steam integration on Linux

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Stars448
418 stars

ianyepan/yay-evil-emacs

😈 A lightweight literate Emacs config with even better "better defaults". Shipped with a custom theme!

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Stars418
416 stars

devrandom/gitian-builder

Build packages in a secure deterministic fashion inside a VM

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Stars416
413 stars

linuxdeepin/dde-file-manager

File manager for deepin desktop environment.

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Stars413
412 stars

CBPP/cbpp

#!++, A CrunchBang revival project.

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Stars412
409 stars

microsoft/OMS-Agent-for-Linux

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Stars409
404 stars

dahliaOS/releases

dahliaOS ISO releases

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Stars404
387 stars

docker-rpm-builder/docker-rpm-builder

Build native RPM packages for Centos/RHEL/Fedora from any Linux distro or even OSX, by leveraging docker capabilities.

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Stars387
375 stars

ros-industrial/ros_canopen

CANopen driver framework for ROS (http://wiki.ros.org/ros_canopen)

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Stars375
366 stars

cognitect-labs/REBL-distro

REBL-distro

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Stars366
349 stars

GalliumOS/galliumos-distro

Docs, issues, and artwork sources for GalliumOS

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Stars349
348 stars

Densaugeo/uploadserver

Python's http.server extended to include a file upload page

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Stars348
346 stars

opendistro-for-elasticsearch/opendistro-build

🧰 Open Distro Build Scripts

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Stars346
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