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Linux repositories on GitHub: 67 ranked by stars
67 public repositories tagged Linux are on GitHub, with 865,859 stars between them; 41 had a push in the last 30 days. Most are written in Rust (20), TypeScript (10), C++ (5). The most starred: trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge (249,092), bregman-arie/devops-exercises (84,858), tldr-pages/tldr (63,897).
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| Repository | What it is | Language | Stars | Forks | License | Last push | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge | A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. | 249,092 | 14,474 | MIT | Nov 19, 2024 | Oct 11 | |
| bregman-arie/devops-exercises | Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps… | Python | 84,858 | 20,386 | Dec 27, 2025 | Oct 14 | |
| tldr-pages/tldr | Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands . | Markdown | 63,897 | 5,457 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 | |
| tw93/Pake | Turn any website into a tiny, fast desktop app. | Rust | 61,990 | 12,765 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 11 | Oct 11 |
| agalwood/Motrix | A full-featured download manager. | TypeScript | 56,358 | 5,053 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 | |
| GitHubDaily/GitHubDaily | 坚持分享 GitHub 上高质量、有趣实用的开源技术教程、开发者工具、编程网站、技术资讯。A list cool, interesting projects of GitHub. | 48,183 | 4,709 | Dec 31, 2025 | Oct 14 | ||
| matteocrippa/awesome-swift | A collaborative list of awesome Swift libraries and resources. Feel free to contribute! | Ruby | 26,316 | 3,150 | CC0-1.0 | Sep 1 | Oct 11 |
| mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide | Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting (on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization. Including Cloud, LLMs… | Dockerfile | 23,017 | 1,156 | Jun 27, 2025 | Oct 11 | |
| getpaseo/paseo | Orchestrate multiple coding agents from desktop and mobile | TypeScript | 20,867 | 2,471 | Oct 14 | Oct 14 | |
| nukeop/nuclear | Streaming music player that finds free music for you | TypeScript | 18,687 | 1,340 | AGPL-3.0 | Oct 14 | Oct 14 |
| pystardust/ani-cli | A cli tool to browse and play anime | Shell | 13,964 | 888 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 5 | Oct 11 |
| browseros-ai/BrowserOS | The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia. | TypeScript | 13,916 | 1,490 | AGPL-3.0 | Oct 14 | Oct 14 |
| JoeanAmier/XHS-Downloader | 小红书（XiaoHongShu、RedNote）链接提取/作品采集工具 | JavaScript | 13,012 | 1,911 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 14 | Oct 14 |
| xmake-io/xmake | A cross-platform build utility based on Lua | Lua | 12,255 | 964 | Apache-2.0 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 |
| A-poc/RedTeam-Tools | Tools and Techniques for Red Team / Penetration Testing | 9,819 | 1,315 | Apr 18 | Oct 11 | ||
| bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket | An operating system designed for hosting containers | Rust | 9,676 | 583 | Oct 8 | Oct 11 | |
| OpenWhispr/openwhispr | Voice-to-text dictation app with local (Nvidia Parakeet/Whisper) and cloud models (BYOK). Privacy-first and available cross-platform. | JavaScript | 9,416 | 1,176 | MIT | Oct 14 | Oct 14 |
| akavel/up | Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview | Go | 8,853 | 131 | Apache-2.0 | Sep 5, 2024 | Oct 11 |
| boyter/scc | Sloc, Cloc and Code: scc is a very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates written in pure Go | Go | 8,808 | 352 | MIT | Sep 25 | Oct 11 |
| superradcompany/microsandbox | easy, fast, programmable and local-first microVM runtime and library | Rust | 8,679 | 479 | Apache-2.0 | Oct 14 | Oct 14 |
| Axorax/awesome-free-apps | Curated list of the best free apps for PC and mobile | JavaScript | 7,861 | 520 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 | |
| watchexec/watchexec | Executes commands in response to file modifications | Rust | 7,226 | 206 | Apache-2.0 | Oct 9 | Oct 11 |
| ilya-zlobintsev/LACT | Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool | Rust | 5,736 | 155 | MIT | Oct 10 | Oct 11 |
| feschber/lan-mouse | mouse & keyboard sharing via LAN | Rust | 5,358 | 301 | GPL-3.0 | Sep 26 | Oct 11 |
| KDAB/hotspot | The Linux perf GUI for performance analysis. | C++ | 5,184 | 286 | Sep 9 | Oct 11 | |
| fosslife/awesome-ricing | A curated list of awesome tools and technology to help you out with ricing on linux | 4,545 | 114 | Sep 28 | Oct 11 | ||
| Dimillian/CodexMonitor | An app to monitor the (Codex) situation | TypeScript | 4,342 | 416 | MIT | Mar 26 | Oct 11 |
| trinib/Linux-Bash-Commands | godmode: Ultimate list of Linux bash commands, cheatsheets and resources | 4,149 | 311 | MIT | Jan 7 | Oct 11 | |
| inotify-tools/inotify-tools | inotify-tools is a library and a set of command-line programs providing a simple interface to inotify. | Rust | 3,432 | 403 | GPL-2.0 | Oct 7 | Oct 11 |
| xpf0000/FlyEnv | Native local development environment for Windows, macOS & Linux. A modern alternative to XAMPP, MAMP, Laragon and Laravel Herd, with runtimes, databases, web servers, local sites… | TypeScript | 3,280 | 381 | BSD-3-Clause | Oct 13 | Oct 14 |
| bvaisvil/zenith | Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage | Rust | 3,062 | 86 | MIT | Oct 1 | Oct 11 |
| LibrePCB/LibrePCB | A powerful, innovative and intuitive EDA suite for everyone! | C++ | 3,014 | 341 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 9 | Oct 11 |
| orhun/kmon | Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor | Rust | 2,958 | 93 | GPL-3.0 | Sep 21 | Oct 11 |
| karan/joe | running: A .gitignore magician in your command line | Go | 2,861 | 205 | MIT | May 30, 2024 | Oct 11 |
| jfernandez/bpftop | bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for each program. | C | 2,707 | 130 | Apache-2.0 | Sep 1 | Oct 11 |
| toolleeo/awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv | The largest Awesome Curated list of command line programs (CLI/TUI) with source data organized into CSV files | Python | 2,638 | 348 | Sep 21 | Oct 11 | |
| velopack/velopack | Installer and automatic update framework for cross-platform desktop applications | C# | 2,382 | 162 | MIT | Oct 10 | Oct 11 |
| yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect | A GlobalProtect VPN client for Linux and macOS, written in Rust, based on OpenConnect and Tauri, supports SSO with MFA, YubiKey, and client certificate authentication, etc. | Rust | 2,286 | 265 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 11 | Oct 11 |
| adileo/squirreldisk | Free, open-source disk usage analyzer for macOS, Windows and Linux. See what fills your disk, servers (SSH) and cloud storage in an animated sunburst or treemap, and clean it up… | Rust | 1,949 | 91 | AGPL-3.0 | Sep 30 | Oct 11 |
| UniClipboard/UniClipboard | Real-time clipboard sync across all your devices — local-first, peer-to-peer, and end-to-end encrypted. No account. No cloud dependency. No central server. | Rust | 1,873 | 90 | AGPL-3.0 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 |
| oreboot/oreboot | oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust. | Rust | 1,802 | 113 | GPL-2.0 | Jul 13 | Oct 11 |
| sirredbeard/awesome-unix | All the UNIX and UNIX-Like: Linux, BSD, macOS, Illumos, 9front, and more. | 1,780 | 103 | Jul 29 | Oct 11 | ||
| orhun/gpg-tui | Manage your GnuPG keys with ease! | Rust | 1,770 | 49 | MIT | Sep 21 | Oct 11 |
| woelper/oculante | A fast and simple image viewer / editor for many operating systems | Rust | 1,690 | 83 | MIT | Oct 10 | Oct 11 |
| kimono-koans/httm | Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!) | Rust | 1,668 | 36 | MPL-2.0 | Sep 18 | Oct 11 |
| rcalixte/awesome-wayland | A curated list of Wayland resources | 1,607 | 70 | CC0-1.0 | Oct 10 | Oct 11 | |
| Augani/dory | Dory is the complete local development system for Apple Silicon: Docker, Compose, Kubernetes, virtual machines, and policy-bound agent sandboxes. | Swift | 1,603 | 46 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 4 | Oct 11 |
| arpanghosh8453/open-dronelog | Drone Log analyzer: A high-performance universal dashboard application for organizing and analyzing DJI/Litchi flight logs privately in one place. Supports plugin for custom… | TypeScript | 1,557 | 216 | AGPL-3.0 | Oct 7 | Oct 11 |
| learnbyexample/scripting_course | notebook: Books, reference guides and resources on Regular Expressions, CLI one-liners, Scripting Languages and Vim. | Vim Script | 1,426 | 191 | Jul 13 | Oct 11 | |
| avtzis/awesome-linux-ricing | Curated list of awesome themes, tools and apps for customizing the Linux environment. | 1,320 | 34 | CC0-1.0 | Jul 30 | Oct 11 | |
| metacraft-labs/codetracer | CodeTracer is a user-friendly time-traveling debugger designed to support a wide range of programming languages. | Nim | 1,306 | 26 | AGPL-3.0 | Oct 11 | Oct 11 |
| nano-muse/nanoMuse | nanoMuse: an open-source personal agent for every device you own. One agent with a name and a look of its own that does things, keeps working while the app is closed, remembers… | Swift | 1,245 | 138 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 15 | Oct 15 |
| drhelius/Gearboy | Game Boy / Game Boy Color / Super Game Boy emulator and debugger with embedded MCP server for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch. | C++ | 1,217 | 167 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 14 | Oct 14 |
| GaoSSR/best-claude-hud | Minimal Claude Code statusline HUD powered by Rust. | Rust | 1,111 | 24 | Apache-2.0 | Aug 13 | Oct 11 |
| d99kris/rapidcsv | C++ CSV parser library | C++ | 1,077 | 200 | BSD-3-Clause | Aug 15 | Sep 21 |
| icy/pacapt | An ArchLinux's pacman-like shell wrapper for many package managers. 56KB and run anywhere. | Shell | 1,006 | 72 | Jan 21, 2022 | Oct 11 | |
| varunvasudeva1/llm-server-docs | End-to-end documentation to set up your own local & fully private LLM server on Debian. Equipped with chat, web search, RAG, model management, MCP servers, image generation, and… | 845 | 62 | MIT | Jun 30 | Oct 14 | |
| jonigl/mcp-client-for-ollama | Harness the power of local LLMs with this TUI MCP Client for Ollama. Featuring all core MCP primitives (tools, prompts, resources), agent mode, multi-server, model switching… | Python | 830 | 126 | MIT | Oct 13 | Oct 14 |
| iamlukethedev/Herald-OS | An agent-native operating system, with Hermes Agent as the interface. Independent project, not affiliated with Nous Research. | TypeScript | 500 | 76 | MIT | Oct 15 | Oct 15 |
| c9dev/penguin-mail | Mail and calendar for Linux and macOS. Gmail and IMAP accounts, Google Calendar, contacts, OpenPGP and S/MIME. GTK4 and libadwaita, written in Rust. | Rust | 450 | 21 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 15 | Oct 15 |
| strands-agents/box | Run AI agents in a sandbox that restricts what they can execute, read, write, and reach on the network. Box combines OS isolation with default-deny Dogwood policies and credential… | Rust | 450 | 29 | Apache-2.0 | Oct 21 | Oct 21 |
| prabanta-dev/janas | 37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) on a 32 GB laptop, 24 without drafts vs 2.8 for llama.cpp; reading 62 vs 16 tok/s. Faster than llama.cpp on all 13 models compared in Q4_K_M.… | C | 410 | 29 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 14 | Oct 15 |
| ANDRETRIPOL/OpenGhost | Open desktop AI agent for Windows, macOS and Linux, written from scratch: its own agent engine, its own browser tooling and its own drawing engine that shows what it explains. | JavaScript | 267 | 21 | MIT | Oct 15 | Oct 15 |
| GabrieleLozupone/kokon | Like Nano Banana, but on your own computer: edit photos by describing the change. Free, private, no limits. One installer for Windows, Mac and Linux; Kokon picks and sets up the… | Rust | 183 | 22 | AGPL-3.0 | Oct 21 | Oct 21 |
| thesnarkitecht/rembrandt | A free photo editor. No account, no subscription, no tracking. RAW, masks and on-device AI for macOS, Windows and Linux. Self-hostable. | C++ | 126 | 8 | GPL-3.0 | Oct 15 | Oct 15 |
| AiondaDotCom/mcp-ssh | A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for managing and controlling SSH connections. | TypeScript | 102 | 19 | MIT | Aug 10 | Oct 14 |
| chayan-1906/GitHub-MCP | MCP-compliant AI agent server in TypeScript — Extend Claude & others with GitHub Repos, Issues, Pull Requests & Actions superpowers! Ready-to-use executables available for macOS &… | TypeScript | 5 | 2 | MIT | Jun 30 | Oct 14 |
By language
- Rust 20
- TypeScript 10
- C++ 5
- JavaScript 4
- Python 3
- Go 3
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Read from GitHub by SpecStream between September 21, 2026 and October 21, 2026; each row shows the day its repository was read. Stars and pushes change every day, and the GitHub page is the current one. Forks and archived repositories are left out.