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dunst-project/dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #dbus #libnotify #notification-daemon #wayland #x11

Updated: 2026-06-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 120 open

5,549

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 2,639 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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3proxy/3proxy

3proxy - tiny free proxy server

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#accounting #c #https-proxy #ipv6 #network-management #network-security

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-08
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 40 open

5,309

stars

Forks: 917
Commits: 1,042 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lxc/lxc

LXC - Linux Containers

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #containers #hacktoberfest #lxc

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-06
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 149 open

5,220

stars

Forks: 1,177
Commits: 12,054 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gluster/glusterfs

Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #distributed-systems #erasure-coding #filesystem #fuse-filesystem #gluster

Updated: 2026-02-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-18
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 285 open

5,206

stars

Forks: 1,110
Commits: 16,850 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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abishekvashok/cmatrix

Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #matrix #screensaver

Updated: 2024-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-23
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 80 open

5,164

stars

Forks: 533
Commits: 121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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openvenues/libpostal

A C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world. Powered by statistical NLP and open geo data.

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#address #address-parser #c #deduping #deduplication #international

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 299 open

4,840

stars

Forks: 471
Commits: 5,501 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nbs-system/naxsi

NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX

Archived

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #naxsi #nginx #waf

Updated: 2023-11-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-28
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,819

stars

Forks: 599
Commits: 761 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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apache/guacamole-server

The Apache Guacamole proxy daemon (guacd), C API (libguac), and protocol support.

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #guacamole #java #javascript #network-client #network-server

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-12-08
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

3,918

stars

Forks: 787
Commits: 4,328 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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NetHack/NetHack

Official NetHack Git Repository

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2002-01-05
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 140 open

3,812

stars

Forks: 601
Commits: 19,112 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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aubio/aubio

a library for audio and music analysis

Stack

C pytest CMake Meson pip

GitHub topics

#analysis #annotation #audio #beat #c #extraction

Updated: 2026-04-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-10-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 157 open

3,727

stars

Forks: 420
Commits: 4,214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mitchellh/libxev

libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and Wasm + WASI. Available as both a Zig and C API.

Stack

Zig Next.js React npm

GitHub topics

#async #c #epoll #io-uring #kqueue #wasi

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-05
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

3,542

stars

Forks: 180
Commits: 591 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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asterisk/asterisk

The official Asterisk Project repository.

Stack

GitHub topics

#asterisk #c #pbx #sip #voip

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-10-08
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 189 open

3,383

stars

Forks: 1,274
Commits: 34,466 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 785 open

3,362

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

weechat/weechat

The extensible chat client.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #chat #client #extensible #irc #javascript

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 440 open

3,348

stars

Forks: 358
Commits: 13,920 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

3,306

stars

Forks: 284
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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BayesWitnesses/m2cgen

Transform ML models into a native code (Java, C, Python, Go, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C#, R, PowerShell, PHP, Dart, Haskell, Ruby, F#, Rust) with zero dependencies

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#c #csharp #dartlang #go #haskell #java

Updated: 2024-08-03
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 62 open

2,993

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,747

stars

Forks: 638
Commits: 64,195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

teeworlds/teeworlds

A retro multiplayer shooter

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #game #linux #macos #multiplayer

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-05-22
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 360 open

2,620

stars

Forks: 646
Commits: 6,560 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server

FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.

AI dev

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-16
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 87 open

2,554

stars

Forks: 1,198
Commits: 52,891 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: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-08
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 299 open

2,495

stars

Forks: 479
Commits: 23,926 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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slembcke/Chipmunk2D

A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-physics #c #rigid-body

Updated: 2026-05-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-28
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 69 open

2,402

stars

Forks: 362
Commits: 1,477 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rsyslog/rsyslog

High-performance log ingestion and ETL engine

AI dev

Stack

C Maven pip

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #kafka #logging #mongodb #rsyslog

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-11-08
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 241 open

2,319

stars

Forks: 725
Commits: 21,469 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JACoders/OpenJK

Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #fps #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 276 open

2,277

stars

Forks: 703
Commits: 4,675 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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liballeg/allegro5

The official Allegro 5 git repository. Pull requests welcome!

Stack

C Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #audio #c #game-development #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-05-14
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 390 open

2,119

stars

Forks: 318
Commits: 12,168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

da-luce/astroterm

A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#ascii #ascii-art #c #command-line #console #linux

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-06-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

1,981

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hfiref0x/WinObjEx64

Windows Object Explorer 64-bit

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #objects-namespace #windbg #winobj

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-23
History: 2 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 0 open

1,947

stars

Forks: 314
Commits: 299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef

DeaDBeeF Player

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #cross-platform #customizable-ui #linux-app #mac-app

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-03
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 379 open

1,940

stars

Forks: 206
Commits: 12,098 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mltframework/mlt

MLT Multimedia Framework

AI dev

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-processing #c #c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #framework

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 3 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 50 open

1,816

stars

Forks: 369
Commits: 6,729 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Vexu/arocc

A modern fully featured C compiler.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#c #compiler #zig

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-19
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

1,764

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 2,156 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter

A C library for creating Excel XLSX files.

Stack

C CMake Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#c #libxlsxwriter #spreadsheet #xlsx #xlsx-files #xlsxwriter

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-08
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

1,751

stars

Forks: 384
Commits: 1,019 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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