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collectd/collectd

The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

Stack

GitHub topics

#amqp-client #c #collectd #cpu-monitoring #graphite-client #influxdb-client

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-02
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 786 open

3,363

stars

Forks: 1,250
Commits: 12,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

id-Software/Quake-2

Quake 2 GPL Source Release

Stack

Updated: 2023-12-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

3,343

stars

Forks: 757
Commits: 1 commit
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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traviscross/mtr

Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

Stack

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-01
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 139 open

3,342

stars

Forks: 376
Commits: 982 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Celtoys/Remotery

Single C file, Realtime CPU/GPU Profiler with Remote Web Viewer

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #cpu #cuda #d3d11 #d3d12 #gpu

Updated: 2024-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-12
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

3,312

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gpac/gpac

GPAC Ultramedia OSS for Video Streaming & Next-Gen Multimedia Transcoding, Packaging & Delivery

Stack

C Android Gradle npm pip

GitHub topics

#atsc3 #broadcast #cenc #gpac #graphics #hls

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-13
History: 4 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 43 open

3,287

stars

Forks: 587
Commits: 19,926 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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basil00/WinDivert

WinDivert: Windows Packet Divert

Stack

GitHub topics

#divert-sockets #firewall #network-programming #packet-capture #packet-sniffer #traffic-analysis

Updated: 2023-03-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-19
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 64 open

3,271

stars

Forks: 605
Commits: 280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

emersion/mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#cli #notifications #swaywm #wayland

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 134 open

3,247

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sleuthkit/sleuthkit

The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.

AI dev

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#forensics #incident-response #ntfs #sleuthkit #tct

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-28
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 479 open

3,137

stars

Forks: 705
Commits: 10,762 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

irssi/irssi

The client of the future

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#irc #irc-client #irc-protocol #irssi

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-09-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 229 open

3,129

stars

Forks: 394
Commits: 6,931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

HeyWillow/willow

Open source, local, and self-hosted Amazon Echo/Google Home competitive Voice Assistant alternative

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#alexa #deep-learning #echo #esp-adf #esp-idf #esp32

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-31
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 25 open

3,105

stars

Forks: 127
Commits: 1,000 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rubinius/rubinius

The Rubinius Language Platform

Stack

C Bundler

GitHub topics

#programming-languages #rubinius #virtual-machine

Updated: 2025-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-07-12
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 19 open

3,092

stars

Forks: 586
Commits: 25,813 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hacksysteam/HackSysExtremeVulnerableDriver

HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver (HEVD) - Windows & Linux

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#buffer-overflow #driver #exploit-development #exploitation #hevd #info-leak

Updated: 2025-02-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-28
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

3,089

stars

Forks: 583
Commits: 175 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FDH2/UxPlay

AirPlay Unix mirroring server

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-15
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 20 open

3,017

stars

Forks: 202
Commits: 1,489 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strongswan/strongswan

strongSwan - IPsec-based VPN

Stack

C Android Gradle PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ikev2 #ipsec #strongswan #vpn #vpn-client #vpn-server

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-11-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 168 open

2,975

stars

Forks: 933
Commits: 20,108 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

phoboslab/wipeout-rewrite

No description.

Stack

C CMake vcpkg

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-10
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 71 open

2,962

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 227 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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kamailio/kamailio

Kamailio - The Open Source SIP Server for large VoIP and real-time communication platforms, focusing on flexibility, security and scalability

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#iot #kamailio #sip #telephony #voip #volte

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2001-09-03
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 25 open

2,949

stars

Forks: 1,135
Commits: 41,351 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

openmv/openmv

OpenMV Camera Module

Stack

C pytest pip

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-13
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 60 open

2,848

stars

Forks: 1,272
Commits: 8,233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ioquake/ioq3

The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's Quake III Arena

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#fps #fps-engine #fps-game #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 155 open

2,804

stars

Forks: 613
Commits: 3,794 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coreboot/coreboot

Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.

Stack

C Go modules Meson pip

GitHub topics

#bios #c #coreboot #firmware

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,768

stars

Forks: 644
Commits: 64,718 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eduard-permyakov/permafrost-engine

An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c #game-engine #game-engine-3d #opengl #python #real-time-strategy

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-25
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

2,760

stars

Forks: 120
Commits: 1,889 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rewardone/OSCPRepo

A list of commands, scripts, resources, and more that I have gathered and attempted to consolidate for use as OSCP (and more) study material. Commands in 'Usefulcommands' Keepnote. Bookmarks and reading material in 'BookmarkList' CherryTree. Reconscan Py2 and Py3. Custom ISO building.

Stack

GitHub topics

#oscp #penetration-testing #pentest #reconscan

Updated: 2020-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-12
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

2,753

stars

Forks: 758
Commits: 387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DynamoRIO/drmemory

Memory Debugger for Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2025-12-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-06-07
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,047 open

2,744

stars

Forks: 289
Commits: 2,600 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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eth-brownie/brownie

A Python-based development and testing framework for smart contracts targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

AI dev

Stack

C PEP 517 pip uv

GitHub topics

#ethereum #solidity #vyper #web3py

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-02
History: 39 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 395 open

2,723

stars

Forks: 593
Commits: 4,657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hfiref0x/KDU

Kernel Driver Utility

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#byovd #driver-loader #dse #loader

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-02-02
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,710

stars

Forks: 544
Commits: 241 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strace/strace

strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

AI dev

Stack

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-02-19
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 108 open

2,681

stars

Forks: 498
Commits: 11,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TokTok/c-toxcore

The future of online communications.

Stack

C CMake Go modules vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cryptography #encryption #network #p2p #security #toxcore

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-24
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 221 open

2,679

stars

Forks: 312
Commits: 5,695 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rbsec/sslscan

sslscan tests SSL/TLS enabled services to discover supported cipher suites

Stack

Updated: 2026-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-11
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 65 open

2,618

stars

Forks: 415
Commits: 771 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server

FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.

AI dev

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#aaa #arp #authentication #bfd #c #daemon

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-16
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 91 open

2,588

stars

Forks: 1,193
Commits: 53,905 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

MayaPosch/NymphCast

Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications.

Stack

C Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#angelscript #audio #audio-player #audio-streaming #casting #nymphcast-server

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-08
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 23 open

2,558

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rspamd/rspamd

Rapid spam filtering system.

AI dev

Stack

C FastAPI CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#c #email #lua #rspamd #spam-filter

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-08
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 293 open

2,512

stars

Forks: 481
Commits: 24,067 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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