Open source linux projects

Every project in the registry tagged linux, ranked by real GitHub adoption.

projects 110 combined stars ★ 1.5M refresh nightly
01 rea ★ 422K

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

last push5 hours ago languageTypeScript licenseMIT
02 RustDesk ★ 128K

Self-hosted remote desktop you fully control

last push8 hours ago languageRust licenseAGPL-3.0
03 NetData ★ 81K

Real-time monitoring for systems and applications

last push5 hours ago languageGo licenseGPL-3.0
04 Alacritty ★ 66K

High-performance terminal with GPU acceleration

last push18 hours ago languageRust licenseApache-2.0
05 Warp ★ 66K

A modern terminal built around AI coding agents

last push4 hours ago languageRust licenseAGPL-3.0
06 yazi ★ 43K

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

last push11 hours ago languageRust licenseMIT
07 1Panel ★ 37K

Manage Linux servers with ease through a modern web interface

last push8 hours ago languageGo licenseGPL-3.0
08 raylib ★ 36K

A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

last push23 hours ago languageC licenseZlib
09 DevToys ★ 32K

A Swiss Army knife for developers.

last push1 months ago languageC# licenseMIT
10 KeePassXC ★ 30K

Cross-platform, secure password manager

last push7 hours ago languageC++ license—
11 Brave ★ 24K

Fast, private browser that puts you first

last push8 hours ago language— licenseMPL-2.0
12 Super Productivity ★ 23K

Task manager built for deep work, privacy, and focus

last push4 hours ago languageTypeScript licenseMIT
13 witr ★ 23K

Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.

last push11 days ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
14 Paseo ★ 23K

Run coding agents from your phone, desktop, or terminal

last push5 hours ago languageTypeScript license—
15 WaveTerm ★ 23K

Cross-platform terminal with AI built in

last push13 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
16 Kodi ★ 21K

Full-featured media center for your TV and beyond

last push4 hours ago languageC++ license—
17 ebook2audiobook ★ 20K

Generate audiobooks from e-books, voice cloning & 1158+ languages!

last push28 days ago languagePython licenseApache-2.0
18 Nuclear ★ 19K

Ad-free music player that streams from multiple sources

last push10 hours ago languageTypeScript licenseAGPL-3.0
19 lynis ★ 17K

Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentles

last push2 months ago languageShell licenseGPL-3.0
20 openvpn-install ★ 16K

Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more

last push1 months ago languageShell licenseMIT
21 ecapture ★ 16K

Capture SSL/TLS plaintext with eBPF—no MITM proxy or custom CA installation. Supports Linux and Android on x86_64 and arm64.

last push2 days ago languageC licenseApache-2.0
22 BrowserOS ★ 14K

🌐 The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.

last push4 hours ago languageTypeScript licenseAGPL-3.0
23 zeal ★ 13K

Offline documentation browser. Your personal reference library, searchable in an instant.

last push2 days ago languageC++ licenseGPL-3.0
24 ubicloud ★ 12K

Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM servic

last push5 hours ago languageRuby licenseAGPL-3.0
25 vuls ★ 12K

Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices

last push30 hours ago languageGo licenseGPL-3.0
26 xmake ★ 12K

🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

last push33 hours ago languageLua licenseApache-2.0
27 pyroscope ★ 12K

Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code

last push6 hours ago languageGo licenseAGPL-3.0
28 OpenWispr ★ 11K

Voice-to-text that works offline, privately, on any app

last push5 hours ago languageJavaScript licenseMIT
29 musicbox ★ 9.9K

网易云音乐命令行版本

last push24 hours ago languagePython licenseMIT
30 terax-ai ★ 9.4K

Lightweight (7MB) Terminal-first AI-native dev workspace

last push2 days ago languageTypeScript licenseApache-2.0
31 MangoHud ★ 9.2K

A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.

last push25 hours ago languageC licenseMIT
32 xdm ★ 8.3K

Fast file and video downloader with HLS, DASH and batch download support

last push25 hours ago languageKotlin licenseGPL-3.0
33 auto-cpufreq ★ 7.9K

Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux

last push6 days ago languagePython licenseGPL-3.0
34 persepolis ★ 7.5K

Persepolis is a download manager written in Python.

last push13 months ago languagePython licenseGPL-3.0
35 hertzbeat ★ 7.5K

An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.

last push14 hours ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
36 Publii ★ 7.4K

The most intuitive Static Site CMS designed for SEO-optimized and privacy-focused websites.

last push2 days ago languageHTML licenseGPL-3.0
37 BleachBit ★ 7.3K

Clean your system and free disk space

last push5 hours ago languagePython licenseGPL-3.0
38 watchexec ★ 7.3K

Executes commands in response to file modifications

last push9 hours ago languageRust licenseApache-2.0
39 HeidiSQL ★ 6.3K

A lightweight client for managing MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase and Firebird, written in Delphi and Lazarus/FreePascal

last push5 hours ago languagePascal licenseGPL-2.0
40 Infosec_Reference ★ 6.0K

An Information Security Reference That Doesn't Suck; https://rmusser.net/git/admin-2/Infosec_Reference for non-MS Git hosted version.

last push7 days ago languageCSS licenseMIT
41 goss ★ 6.0K

Quick and Easy server testing/validation

last push36 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
42 horizon ★ 6.0K

Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 rewritten from scratch in Rust, checked against vanilla with 281 differential harnesses. Get it with the Horizon launcher.

last push4 hours ago languageRust licenseMIT
43 wgcloud ★ 5.2K

Linux运维监控工具,支持系统硬件信息,内存,CPU,温度,磁盘空间及IO,硬盘smart,GPU,防火墙,网络流量速率等监控,服务接口监测,大屏展示,拓扑图,端口监控,进程监控,docker监控,日志监控,文件防篡改,数据库监控,指令批量下发执行,web ssh,Linux面板(探针),告警,SNMP监测,K8S,

last push9 days ago languageJava licenseApache-2.0
44 saber ★ 5.0K

The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting

last pushyesterday languageDart licenseGPL-3.0
45 LinuxGSM ★ 4.9K

The command-line tool for quick, simple deployment and management of Linux dedicated game servers.

last push26 hours ago languageShell licenseMIT
46 mdserver-web ★ 4.5K

Simple Linux Panel

last push8 hours ago languagePython licenseApache-2.0
47 openless ★ 4.0K

Hold a key, speak, release — AI-polished text appears at your cursor in any app. Open-source voice input for macOS & Windows. (按住快捷键说话,松开即得润色后的文字)

last push8 hours ago languageRust licenseAGPL-3.0
48 ddev ★ 3.9K

Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments

last push5 hours ago languageGo licenseApache-2.0
49 LumixEngine ★ 3.9K

3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine

last push34 hours ago languageC++ licenseMIT
50 linux-android ★ 3.8K

Turn an old Android phone into a GPU-accelerated Linux desktop (XFCE4 / KDE Plasma / LXQt / MATE) or a Home Assistant smart home server — using Termux. No root,

last push10 days ago languageShell licenseMIT
51 domoticz ★ 3.8K

Free open source home automation system for Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi. Supports Z-Wave, Zigbee, MQTT, and 150+ devices.

last push14 hours ago languageC++ licenseGPL-3.0
52 emba ★ 3.7K

EMBA - The firmware security analyzer

last push16 hours ago languageShell licenseGPL-3.0
53 joshuto ★ 3.7K

ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust

last push8 days ago languageRust licenseLGPL-3.0
54 sh ★ 3.5K

KEJILION.SH 一款全功能的Linux管理脚本!An all-in-one Linux management script!

last push20 hours ago languageShell licenseApache-2.0
55 sysstat ★ 3.4K

Performance monitoring tools for Linux

last push17 hours ago languageC licenseGPL-2.0
56 pcm ★ 3.4K

Intel® Performance Counter Monitor (Intel® PCM)

last push19 days ago languageC++ licenseBSD-3-Clause
57 FlyEnv ★ 3.3K

Native local development environment for Windows, macOS & Linux. A modern alternative to XAMPP, MAMP, Laragon and Laravel Herd, with runtimes, databases, web se

last push18 hours ago languageTypeScript licenseBSD-3-Clause
58 figma-linux ★ 3.3K

Figma is the first interface design tool based in the browser, making it easier for teams to create software. Join us in https://t.me/figma_linux

last push10 months ago languageSvelte licenseGPL-2.0
59 tgpt ★ 3.3K

AI Chatbots in terminal for free

last push5 days ago languageGo licenseGPL-3.0
60 vps-audit ★ 3.2K

lightweight, dependency-free bash script for security, performance auditing and infrastructure monitoring of Linux servers.

last push3 months ago languageShell licenseMIT

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Frequently asked questions

How many open source linux projects are there?

This registry tracks 110 projects tagged linux, with 1,512,038 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is rea at 422,352 stars.

Are these linux projects free to use?

Yes — 107 of the 110 carry an explicit open-source licence across 9 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.

Which linux project should I choose?

The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.

Are these linux projects still maintained?

97 of the 110 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.