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OpenPrinting/cups

OpenPrinting CUPS Sources

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bsd #ipp #linux #printing

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-01-13
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 28 open

1,679

stars

Forks: 306
Commits: 4,745 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TorqueGameEngines/Torque2D

A completely free, open-source, 2D game engine built on proven torque technology.

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-05
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,621

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 1,406 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake

pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

AI dev

Stack

C Flask pytest CMake Pipenv vcpkg

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-10-31
History: 56 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 103 open

1,597

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +11 +0.7%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +23 +8.9%

Website GitHub

taisei-project/taisei

A free and open-source Touhou Project fangame

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #danmaku #game #glsl #opengl #sdl

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-12
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 33 open

1,591

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 4,634 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core

Core module of the Mupen64Plus project

Stack

GitHub topics

#emulation #n64

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-10-02
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 202 open

1,549

stars

Forks: 280
Commits: 2,749 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

solusipse/fiche

Command line pastebin for sharing terminal output.

Stack

Updated: 2023-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

1,547

stars

Forks: 179
Commits: 123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

angband/angband

A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#angband #c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-23
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 215 open

1,543

stars

Forks: 388
Commits: 10,556 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

bloomberg/comdb2

Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS

Stack

C Bundler CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-17
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 283 open

1,522

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 5,519 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

skaiworldwide-oss/agensgraph

AgensGraph, a transactional graph database based on PostgreSQL

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#enterprise #graph-database #graphdb #multi-model-database #nosql #postgresql

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 66 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 137 open

1,499

stars

Forks: 158
Commits: 62,282 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 0.0%

Website GitHub

OpenSIPS/opensips

OpenSIPS is a GPL implementation of a multi-functionality SIP Server that targets to deliver a high-level technical solution (performance, security and quality) to be used in professional SIP server platforms.

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-06-13
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 284 open

1,491

stars

Forks: 661
Commits: 19,834 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brianmario/yajl-ruby

A streaming JSON parsing and encoding library for Ruby (C bindings to yajl)

Stack

C Bundler

Updated: 2025-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-04-19
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

1,489

stars

Forks: 178
Commits: 791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jtheoof/swappy

A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS

Stack

C Meson npm

GitHub topics

#annotation-tool #screenshot #snappy #snapshot #sway #wayland

Updated: 2025-12-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

1,482

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Audio4Linux/JDSP4Linux

An audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio clients

Stack

C Qt CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#audio #dsp #effects #equalizer #gst #gst-plugin

Updated: 2026-05-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-02
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 67 open

1,480

stars

Forks: 51
Commits: 1,111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

NightDive-Studio/shockmac

System Shock (PowerMac version / Official GPL Release)

Stack

Updated: 2018-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-05
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

1,465

stars

Forks: 184
Commits: 5 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64

No description.

Stack

C pip

Updated: 2021-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 20 open

1,460

stars

Forks: 128
Commits: 73,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

celluloid-player/celluloid

A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #celluloid #gnome-mpv #gtk #gtk4

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-30
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 284 open

1,443

stars

Forks: 109
Commits: 1,895 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bmax121/KernelPatch

Patching and hooking the Linux kernel with only a stripped Linux kernel image.

AI dev

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#android-root #hijack #inline-hook #kernel-security #kernelpatch #syscall-hook

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-05
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 92 open

1,413

stars

Forks: 349
Commits: 352 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

DNSPod/dnspod-sr

A faster recursive dns server from DNSPod

Stack

Updated: 2026-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-06-01
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

1,379

stars

Forks: 320
Commits: 59 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

tgraf/bmon

bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

Stack

GitHub topics

#monitoring #network #network-analysis #network-monitoring #networking

Updated: 2023-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-05
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 55 open

1,374

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

rosehgal/BinExp

Linux Binary Exploitation

Stack

GitHub topics

#binaries #buffer-overflow-attack #bufferoverflow #consolidation #exploitation #format-string-attack

Updated: 2021-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-10
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,359

stars

Forks: 209
Commits: 68 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

twitter/fatcache

Memcache on SSD

Archived

Stack

Updated: 2021-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-11
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

1,299

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

sist2app/sist2

Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool

Stack

C Express FastAPI Vue CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #sqlite #vuejs

Updated: 2025-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-28
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 85 open

1,273

stars

Forks: 78
Commits: 822 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jarcode-foss/glava

GLava - OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#audio-visualizer #linux #opengl #shaders

Updated: 2024-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-26
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 98 open

1,270

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 332 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

devos50/qemu-ios

A QEMU emulator for legacy Apple devices

Stack

C Meson pip

Updated: 2025-02-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 146 open

1,242

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 109,445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

cococry/ragnar

Minimal, flexible & user-friendly X tiling window manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#i3 #linux #tiling-window-manager #window-manager #x11

Updated: 2026-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-13
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 17 open

1,239

stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 323 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dovecot/core

Dovecot mail server

AI dev

Stack

C PEP 517

GitHub topics

#email #imap #imap4 #lmtp #mail #pop3

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-08-09
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,232

stars

Forks: 346
Commits: 36,901 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

intel/media-driver

Intel Graphics Media Driver to support hardware decode, encode and video processing.

Stack

C CMake

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-30
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 254 open

1,227

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 8,317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

skylersaleh/SkyEmu

Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS Emulator

Stack

C Android pytest CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #gameboy #gameboy-advance #gameboy-color #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-21
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 255 open

1,213

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 1,076 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

schweikert/fping

High performance ping tool

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd-license #c #fping #icmp #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-12-10
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

1,211

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 848 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pyca/pynacl

Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library

Stack

C pytest .NET SDK PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cryptography #libsodium #nacl #python

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-22
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 57 open

1,203

stars

Forks: 263
Commits: 840 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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