domain: operating-systems
1491 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clipy/Clipy Clipy is an open-source clipboard extension app for macOS that keeps a history of copied text and images, accessible via customizable keybo… | 84 | 8831 | active |
| winfsp/winfsp WinFsp is a Windows platform providing a kernel-mode file system driver and user-mode DLL that lets developers implement custom file system… | 66 | 8828 | stable |
| adi1090x/rofi A large collection of Rofi-based custom applets, launchers, and power menus written in shell scripts. It provides ready-made themes and men… | 70 | 8763 | active |
| RROrg/rr RR (Redpill Recovery) is a preinstallation and recovery bootloader environment that lets users boot Synology DSM on arbitrary x86/x64 hardw… | 91 | 8571 | active |
| insidegui/VirtualBuddy VirtualBuddy is a free, open-source macOS application that virtualizes macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon Macs, with a GUI for creating an… | 77 | 8516 | active |
| XcodesOrg/XcodesApp Xcodes.app is a native macOS application built with Swift/SwiftUI for installing and switching between multiple versions of Xcode with a mo… | 93 | 8501 | active |
| containers/bubblewrap Bubblewrap is a low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool for Linux that uses user namespaces to let any user run processes in isolated contai… | 91 | 8490 | active |
| brndnmtthws/conky Conky is a lightweight, highly configurable system monitor that displays system statistics and other information directly on your desktop. … | 90 | 8485 | active |
| coteditor/CotEditor CotEditor is a lightweight, open-source plain text editor built natively for macOS using Swift and Cocoa. It offers syntax highlighting for… | 98 | 8413 | active |
| archlinux/archinstall A guided and automated installer for Arch Linux that can run interactively or from declarative JSON configuration files and templates. It a… | 96 | 8394 | active |
| baskerville/bspwm bspwm is a tiling window manager for X11 that arranges windows as leaves of a full binary tree using binary space partitioning. It handles … | 72 | 8307 | stable |
| Sysdig Sysdig is a Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool that captures system calls and OS events at the kernel level, with native sup… | 78 | 8289 | active |
| htop-dev/htop htop is a cross-platform interactive process viewer for the terminal, written in C and requiring ncurses. It lets users scroll, sort, filte… | 95 | 8288 | stable |
| TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher AppImageLauncher is a helper application for Linux distributions that acts as an entry point for running and integrating AppImages. It inte… | 71 | 8259 | active |
| basecamp/omakub Omakub is an opinionated shell-based setup script that turns a fresh Ubuntu 24.04+ installation into a fully configured web development env… | 65 | 8101 | active |
| mmulet/term.everything A Linux CLI tool that renders any GUI application window inside a terminal, working on both X11 and Wayland. It supports rendering over SSH… | 58 | 8081 | active |
| Lakr233/vphone-cli A Swift CLI tool that boots virtual iPhone instances on Apple Silicon Macs using Apple's Virtualization.framework and PCC research VM infra… | 82 | 8071 | active |
| PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme Papirus is a free and open source SVG icon theme for Linux, based on the Paper Icon Set, with thousands of pixel-perfect icons for apps, ac… | 85 | 8039 | active |
| istoreos/istoreos iStoreOS is an entry-level router and NAS operating system based on OpenWrt, adapted to multiple hardware platforms. It provides a beginner… | 77 | 8013 | active |
| FEX-Emu/FEX FEX is a fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for ARM64 Linux, using an advanced binary recompiler with a custom IR to run 32-bit and 64-b… | 98 | 7883 | active |
| APatch APatch is a kernel-based root solution for Android devices that patches the Android kernel and system, relying on KernelPatch. It supports … | 86 | 7862 | active |
| PostgresApp/PostgresApp Postgres.app is a full-featured PostgreSQL installation packaged as a standard macOS application with a native GUI for starting and stoppin… | 94 | 7770 | active |
| AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for Wayland compositors built with Quickshell (QML) and a Go backend. It replaces the usual p… | 79 | 7760 | active |
| AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq auto-cpufreq is an automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux that monitors battery state, CPU usage, temperature, and system load t… | 89 | 7740 | active |
| boltgolt/howdy Howdy provides Windows Hello-style facial authentication for Linux using IR emitters and a camera with facial recognition. It integrates wi… | 38 | 7738 | active |
| SuperManito/LinuxMirrors A one-line shell script for switching system software package sources on 27+ GNU/Linux distributions, plus a companion script for installin… | 76 | 7725 | active |
| FreeRTOS The classic FreeRTOS distribution, a real-time operating system for microcontrollers and small microprocessors that submodules the FreeRTOS… | 67 | 7723 | stable |
| raycast/extensions The official monorepo of all extensions available in the Raycast Store, plus documentation and templates for building Raycast extensions wi… | 77 | 7712 | active |
| luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX A shell-based installer that sets up OpenCore boot and macOS VM support on Proxmox VE hosts, enabling macOS installation on AMD and Intel h… | 65 | 7702 | active |
| maharmstone/btrfs WinBtrfs is an open-source Btrfs filesystem driver for Windows, reimplemented from scratch in C with no Linux kernel code. It supports read… | 67 | 7637 | active |
| linux-surface/linux-surface A patched Linux kernel and associated packages that add hardware support for Microsoft Surface devices not yet available in upstream kernel… | 82 | 7623 | active |
| thebookisclosed/ViVe ViVe is a C# library and console tool (ViVeTool) for interacting with the A/B feature experiment mechanism in Windows 10 version 2004 and n… | 27 | 7620 | active |
| netblue30/firejail Firejail is a SUID security sandbox program for Linux that uses kernel namespaces, seccomp-bpf filters, and Linux capabilities to run appli… | 82 | 7611 | active |
| jart/blink Blink is a tiny x86-64 Linux user-mode emulator written in C that runs x86-64-linux binaries on other operating systems and architectures, … | 48 | 7575 | active |
| fairyglade/ly Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD, written in Zig. It handles graphical login sessions via PAM and w… | 67 | 7541 | active |
| Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace Sequel Ace is a fast, easy-to-use native macOS application for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases, serving as the successor to Sequel Pro… | 98 | 7514 | active |
| home-assistant/operating-system Home Assistant Operating System is a Buildroot-based Linux distribution optimized to run Home Assistant and its add-ons via Docker containe… | 94 | 7433 | active |
| yuk7/ArchWSL ArchWSL is an Arch Linux distribution packaged for Windows Subsystem for Linux, built on the wsldl launcher. It lets users install and run … | 70 | 7398 | active |
| lzhoang2801/OpCore-Simplify OpCore Simplify is a Python-based tool that automates the creation of OpenCore EFI folders for Hackintosh systems. It detects hardware, che… | 68 | 7311 | active |
| julienXX/terminal-notifier terminal-notifier is a command-line tool for sending macOS User Notifications from the terminal. It ships as an app bundle and supports opt… | 88 | 7296 | active |
| Intel Wi-Fi for macOS (itlwm + HeliPort) itlwm is an open-source kernel extension providing Intel Wi-Fi adapter support on macOS, ported largely from OpenBSD's iwm/iwx/net80211 dri… | 23 | 7111 | active |
| Ji4n1ng/OpenInTerminal A macOS Finder toolbar app that opens the current directory in terminal emulators like Terminal, iTerm, Hyper, Alacritty, and many others, … | 94 | 6973 | active |
| milanvarady/Applite Applite is a free, open-source native macOS GUI app for managing third-party applications via Homebrew Casks, designed for non-technical us… | 82 | 6962 | active |
| awesomeWM/awesome awesome is a highly configurable, framework-style tiling window manager for X11, written in C and configured/extended with Lua. It is fast … | 67 | 6945 | stable |
| openmediavault/openmediavault openmediavault is a network attached storage (NAS) operating system solution based on Debian Linux, providing a web-based administration in… | 76 | 6917 | active |
| newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake KeepingYouAwake is a small macOS menu bar utility that prevents your Mac from going to sleep, either for a predefined duration or indefinit… | 72 | 6859 | stable |
| klange/toaruos ToaruOS is a complete, independent hobby operating system for x86-64 PCs and ARMv8 VM environments, built entirely from original code with … | 94 | 6828 | active |
| bitgapp/eqMac eqMac is a macOS system-wide audio equalizer and volume mixer application built with Swift and CoreAudio. It provides bass/mid/treble and m… | 80 | 6763 | active |
| pop-os/cosmic-epoch COSMIC is a next-generation desktop environment for Linux built in Rust by System76, composed of modular components including a Wayland com… | 99 | 6730 | active |
| neutrinolabs/xrdp xrdp is an open-source RDP server that provides graphical login to remote Linux machines using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol. It ac… | 92 | 6708 | stable |
| LumaTeam/Luma3DS Luma3DS is custom firmware for the Nintendo 3DS family of consoles that patches and reimplements parts of the system software. It adds home… | 81 | 6646 | active |
| The-Z-Labs/linux-exploit-suggester A shell-based auditing tool that assesses a Linux system's exposure to publicly known kernel privilege escalation exploits based on kernel … | 65 | 6593 | active |
| palera1n/palera1n palera1n is an open-source jailbreak tool for Apple devices using the checkm8 bootrom exploit, supporting A8 through A11 chips and T2 secur… | 88 | 6475 | active |
| opa334/Dopamine Dopamine is a rootless semi-untethered jailbreak tool for iOS 15 through 26.0.1, supporting arm64e and A12/A13 devices. It is written prima… | 98 | 6449 | active |
| tock/tock Tock is an embedded operating system for low-power, low-memory microcontrollers that runs multiple concurrent, mutually distrustful applica… | 67 | 6423 | active |
| google/perfetto Perfetto is an open-source suite of SDKs, daemons, and tools for production-grade system profiling, app tracing, and trace analysis on clie… | 95 | 6393 | stable |
| ilyamiro/serpantinum Serpantinum is a desktop shell for Wayland compositors, built in QML, evolving from the author's popular dotfiles configuration. It provide… | 59 | 6384 | active |
| microsoft/Detours Microsoft Detours is a C++ library for intercepting, monitoring, and instrumenting Win32 API calls on Windows via function hooking and bina… | 67 | 6364 | stable |
| nelhage/reptyr reptyr is a command-line utility that reparents an already-running process to a new terminal using ptrace. It lets you move long-running pr… | 56 | 6325 | active |
| google/syzkaller syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer originally built for the Linux kernel and now supporting FreeBSD, Fuchsia, gViso… | 77 | 6309 | active |
| adi1090x/polybar-themes A large collection of ready-made themes for the Polybar status bar, offering many styles, colors, and variants for Linux desktop environmen… | 76 | 6235 | active |
| MichaIng/DietPi DietPi is an extremely lightweight Debian-based Linux distribution optimised for minimal CPU and RAM usage on single-board computers (Raspb… | 98 | 6222 | stable |
| TianoCore EDK II EDK II is TianoCore's open-source, cross-platform firmware development environment implementing the UEFI and PI specifications. It provides… | 90 | 6214 | active |
| SukiSU-Ultra/SukiSU-Ultra SukiSU-Ultra is a kernel-based Android root solution providing kernel-level su and root access management, with support for KPM kernel modu… | 82 | 6162 | active |
| DominicBreuker/pspy pspy is a command line tool that snoops on Linux processes without root permissions by combining procfs scans with inotify watchers to catc… | 54 | 6155 | stable |
| dalance/procs procs is a modern replacement for the ps command, written in Rust, that shows process information with colored, human-readable output. It a… | 91 | 6146 | active |
| twostraws/ControlRoom Control Room is a macOS GUI application for controlling the Xcode Simulator for iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. It wraps Apple's simctl command-lin… | 66 | 6094 | active |
| tonsky/AnyBar AnyBar is a small macOS menubar application that displays a colored dot whose meaning and color are controlled by the user. It is controlle… | 56 | 6039 | stable |
| webmin/webmin Webmin is a mature web-based control panel for administering Unix-like servers, letting users manage users, disk quotas, services, config f… | 99 | 6027 | stable |
| tombonez/noTunes noTunes is a small macOS menu bar application that prevents iTunes or Apple Music from launching, for example when Bluetooth headphones rec… | 23 | 6006 | active |
| FeralInteractive/gamemode GameMode is a daemon and library combo for Linux that lets games request temporary system performance optimisations such as CPU governor ch… | 62 | 5985 | active |
| MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux A novelty desktop application that displays the Windows 'Activate Windows' watermark on Linux desktops, written in C using cairo. It suppor… | 83 | 5928 | active |
| grassmunk/Chicago95 Chicago95 is a Windows 95-style total conversion theme for XFCE/Xubuntu on Linux, including GTK2/GTK3 themes, icons, an XFWM window manager… | 66 | 5921 | active |
| rvaiya/keyd keyd is a system-wide key remapping daemon for Linux that works at the kernel input level (evdev/uinput), independent of the display server… | 69 | 5916 | active |
| dokan-dev/dokany Dokany is a user-mode file system library for Windows, similar to FUSE on Linux, letting developers create file systems without writing ker… | 66 | 5916 | active |
| nix-darwin/nix-darwin nix-darwin is a declarative configuration system for macOS built on Nix and Nixpkgs, similar to NixOS. It lets users define their entire ma… | 76 | 5881 | active |
| 007revad/Synology_HDD_db A Shell script that adds user-installed HDDs, SSDs, and NVMe drives to Synology NAS compatible drive databases, bypassing DSM's drive compa… | 97 | 5803 | active |
| WebAssembly/WASI WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) is a set of standardized APIs that let WebAssembly modules access system resources like files, clocks, … | 94 | 5783 | active |
| RIOT-OS/RIOT RIOT is an open-source, vendor-independent operating system for Internet of Things and embedded devices, supporting 8/16/32-bit microcontro… | 95 | 5778 | active |
| seL4/seL4 seL4 is a formally verified microkernel operating system kernel written in C, providing high-assurance isolation and capability-based secur… | 89 | 5717 | active |
| gnif/LookingGlass Looking Glass is an extremely low latency KVM FrameRelay (KVMFR) implementation that lets a Linux host display and interact with a Windows … | 67 | 5666 | active |
| nextai-translator/bob-plugin-openai-translator A Bob plugin for macOS that uses OpenAI, Google Gemini, MiniMax, or OpenAI-compatible APIs to translate text, polish wording, and fix gramm… | 96 | 5655 | active |
| ptitSeb/box64 Box64 is a Linux userspace emulator that lets you run x86_64 Linux programs, including games, on non-x86_64 systems such as ARM64, RISC-V, … | 90 | 5611 | active |
| dunst-project/dunst Dunst is a lightweight, highly customizable notification daemon for Unix-like systems that implements the freedesktop notification specific… | 86 | 5570 | active |
| linuxmint/cinnamon Cinnamon is a Linux desktop environment providing a traditional desktop layout with modern technology, forked from GNOME Shell. It is the f… | 90 | 5567 | active |
| ilya-zlobintsev/LACT LACT is a Linux application for controlling and monitoring AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs, offering overclocking, fan curves, power management… | 94 | 5490 | active |
| binpash/try try is a command-line tool that lets you run a command and inspect its effects before committing changes to your live system. It uses Linux… | 81 | 5490 | active |
| progrium/darwinkit DarwinKit (formerly MacDriver) provides Go bindings to native Apple frameworks like AppKit, Foundation, and WebKit via the Objective-C runt… | 27 | 5433 | active |
| armbian/build The official build framework for the Armbian Linux distribution, a shell-based toolchain that compiles customizable Debian- or Ubuntu-based… | 95 | 5378 | active |
| aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian An unofficial repackaging project that distributes Anthropic's official Claude Desktop Linux .deb as .rpm, AppImage, Nix flake, and AUR pac… | 83 | 5361 | active |
| sindresorhus/create-dmg A Node.js CLI tool that automatically creates good-looking, code-signed DMG disk images for macOS app distribution. It is intentionally opi… | 71 | 5361 | active |
| google/tcmalloc TCMalloc is Google's fast, multi-threaded memory allocator implementing C's malloc() and C++'s operator new. It is a drop-in replacement al… | 77 | 5333 | stable |
| microsoft/azurelinux Azure Linux is an open-source, general-purpose Linux distribution built and optimized for Microsoft Azure, with sources derived from Fedora… | 98 | 5330 | active |
| qtile/qtile Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written entirely in Python, configurable via Python scripts. It runs as an X11 win… | 94 | 5292 | active |
| zq1997/deepin-wine A port of deepin's Wine environment and Windows application packages (QQ, WeChat, TIM, DingTalk, etc.) to Debian/Ubuntu, distributed as an … | 32 | 5281 | active |
| Pop Shell Pop Shell is a keyboard-driven GNOME Shell extension that adds advanced i3-like tiling window management to the GNOME desktop. It lets user… | 67 | 5271 | active |
| coreutils/coreutils GNU coreutils is the standard collection of GNU command-line utilities (ls, cp, mv, cat, sort, chmod, etc.) that form the basis of most Uni… | 88 | 5268 | stable |
| oshi/oshi OSHI is a free, cross-platform Java library for retrieving native operating system and hardware information using JNA or the JDK Foreign Fu… | 99 | 5260 | active |
| lxc/lxc LXC is a low-level Linux container runtime providing a userspace interface to kernel containment features like namespaces, cgroups, and man… | 84 | 5248 | stable |
| includeos/IncludeOS IncludeOS is a minimal, resource-efficient unikernel operating system for C++ services, linked directly into your application via `#include… | 60 | 5247 | active |