Open-source linux software

16 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged linux, ranked by how closely linux is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.

16 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.

Product	Health v2	Stars	Maturity
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…	73	6253	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	5282	active
swizzin/swizzin Swizzin is a collection of bash scripts providing a light, modular seedbox solution for Debian and Ubuntu servers, with an installer and a …	74	2387	stable
LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz A shell script that automates installing and configuring a full email server on Debian/Ubuntu using Postfix, Dovecot, Spamassassin, OpenDKI…	77	2170	active
WordOps/WordOps WordOps is a Python-based CLI tool that automates deploying and managing a high-performance WordPress server stack (Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB…	80	1570	active
globaleaks/globaleaks-whistleblowing-software GlobaLeaks is a free, open-source whistleblowing platform that lets any organization set up and maintain a secure, anonymous reporting syst…	91	1521	stable
retorquere/zotero-pkg An apt package archive and install script that packages Zotero (and Juris-M) releases for Debian-based Linux systems and Crostini-enabled C…	68	1307	active
kekylin/debnas A shell script that turns a minimal Debian 12/13 (amd64) installation into a home NAS system. It automates setup of Cockpit web management,…	66	1184	active
ovh/debian-cis A set of modular shell scripts that audit and harden Debian 11/12/13 systems according to CIS security benchmarks, used in production at OV…	73	1069	active
home-assistant/supervised-installer A shell-based installer that sets up Home Assistant Supervised on a generic Debian Linux system, providing the full Home Assistant experien…	75	1935	maintenance
spotify/dh-virtualenv dh-virtualenv is a tool that combines Debian packaging with self-contained virtualenv-based Python deployments. It lets you build .deb pack…	32	1628	maintenance
Aniverse/inexistence A Shell-based seedbox installation script for Chinese users that sets up torrent clients (Deluge, rTorrent/ruTorrent, qBittorrent), FlexGet…	32	1492	maintenance
AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian A shell script installer that automates installation of official DisplayLink drivers on Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distributions. It pat…	25	1455	maintenance
MysticRyuujin/guac-install A shell script that automates installing Apache Guacamole (client, server, Tomcat, and MySQL database) on Ubuntu, Debian, and related distr…	70	1041	maintenance
Deepin Wine for Ubuntu/Debian A port of Deepin's Wine environment (deepin-wine) to Ubuntu and Debian, packaged as installable scripts and .deb packages. It lets users ru…	10	5959	abandoned
Meilix Meilix is a customizable, lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu/Debian with the LXQt desktop, designed for building branded event …	10	1775	abandoned