Open source linux projects
Every project in the registry tagged linux, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
Self-hosted remote desktop you fully control
Real-time monitoring for systems and applications
High-performance terminal with GPU acceleration
A modern terminal built around AI coding agents
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
Manage Linux servers with ease through a modern web interface
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
A Swiss Army knife for developers.
Cross-platform, secure password manager
Fast, private browser that puts you first
Task manager built for deep work, privacy, and focus
Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.
Run coding agents from your phone, desktop, or terminal
Cross-platform terminal with AI built in
Full-featured media center for your TV and beyond
Generate audiobooks from e-books, voice cloning & 1158+ languages!
Ad-free music player that streams from multiple sources
Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentles
Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more
Capture SSL/TLS plaintext with eBPF—no MITM proxy or custom CA installation. Supports Linux and Android on x86_64 and arm64.
🌐 The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.
Offline documentation browser. Your personal reference library, searchable in an instant.
Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM servic
Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices
🔥 A cross-platform build utility based on Lua
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
Voice-to-text that works offline, privately, on any app
网易云音乐命令行版本
Lightweight (7MB) Terminal-first AI-native dev workspace
A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.
Fast file and video downloader with HLS, DASH and batch download support
Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux
Persepolis is a download manager written in Python.
An AI-powered next-generation open source real-time observability system.
The most intuitive Static Site CMS designed for SEO-optimized and privacy-focused websites.
Clean your system and free disk space
Executes commands in response to file modifications
A lightweight client for managing MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase and Firebird, written in Delphi and Lazarus/FreePascal
An Information Security Reference That Doesn't Suck; https://rmusser.net/git/admin-2/Infosec_Reference for non-MS Git hosted version.
Quick and Easy server testing/validation
Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3 rewritten from scratch in Rust, checked against vanilla with 281 differential harnesses. Get it with the Horizon launcher.
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,
The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting
The command-line tool for quick, simple deployment and management of Linux dedicated game servers.
Simple Linux Panel
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)
Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments
3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine
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,
Free open source home automation system for Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi. Supports Z-Wave, Zigbee, MQTT, and 150+ devices.
EMBA - The firmware security analyzer
ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
KEJILION.SH 一款全功能的Linux管理脚本!An all-in-one Linux management script!
Performance monitoring tools for Linux
Intel® Performance Counter Monitor (Intel® PCM)
Native local development environment for Windows, macOS & Linux. A modern alternative to XAMPP, MAMP, Laragon and Laravel Herd, with runtimes, databases, web se
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
AI Chatbots in terminal for free
lightweight, dependency-free bash script for security, performance auditing and infrastructure monitoring of Linux servers.
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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.