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Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into an AI server. LLM inference, chat UI, voice, agents, workflows, RAG, and image generation.
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An alternative to Howdy.
While Windows Hello provides a seamless multi-modal biometric experience (Face, Fingerprint, PIN) on Windows 11, Linux has historically lacked a modern, unified equivalent. The most well-known project in this space, Howdy, focuses exclusively on facial recognition and has not seen significant updates in recent years.
Biopass was developed by @phucvinh57 and @thaitran24 to fill this gap, providing a fast, secure, and modern biometric suite that goes beyond just face ID.
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Ship 100x With The Agent IDE. The most powerful Agent Development Environment (ADE).
Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop and mobile. Run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and more side by side in isolated worktrees. Get the mobile companion for iOS or Android.
Phone Link / KDE Connect alternative.
Sefirah is designed to enhance your workflow by enabling seamless clipboard and notification sharing between your Windows PC and Android device. It's an alternative to existing solutions, tailored for users who want a straightforward and efficient way to keep their devices in sync.
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The art of reading, perfected. A modern, offline-first, privacy-focused document and e-book reader for Android and desktop, built with Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose.
A sleek, offline-first, privacy-focused document and e-book reader designed for deep focus across all your devices.
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Wirelessly cast your Linux Desktop.
I wanted to just watch movies by streaming them from my linux laptop, but nothing worked... so I created Fluxcast!
Stream your Linux desktop to a Smart TV via Miracast/WFD, DLNA, or Chromecast.
A native Kubernetes desktop client — nothing in your cluster. Helm, Argo CD, Flux CD, Gateway API & cert-manager built in. MIT-licensed.
Windows apps as native Linux windows.
Native Linux windows for every Windows app — real icons, real WM_CLASS, pin-to-taskbar. FreeRDP RemoteApp + dockur/windows. Zero config.
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Open-source database client for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and SQLite with SQL notebooks, visual EXPLAIN, AI and MCP built in. Hackable with plugins.
Tabularis is an open-source desktop SQL workspace for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQLite, with a built-in MCP server so Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf can read your schema and run queries through the same app you already use.
A local-first desktop and web app for browsing, searching, and analyzing your past AI coding sessions. See what your agents actually did across every project.
The free, open-source, cross-platform GTD app. Local-first, no account required. Mind Like Water.
A complete Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system for desktop and mobile.
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Create stunning demos for free. Open-source, no subscriptions, no watermarks, and free for commercial use. An alternative to Screen Studio.
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The ultimate webcam suite!
Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform camera suite.
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A minimalist markdown scratchpad.
Scratch is an offline-first markdown notes app. It's AI-friendly, keyboard-optimized, and design-centered.
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A GitHub Desktop fork with advanced functionality and Bitbucket, GitLab integration.
A local-first desktop IDE for Amazon ECS.
Mercek is a desktop app for Amazon ECS. It uses the AWS credentials already on your machine and shows your services across every account and region. It's read-only until you approve a change, and it talks to AWS directly, with no server in between and no telemetry.
A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind.
A cross-platform Electron Desktop App to stream and download any Movie, TV Series or Anime in the World. Zero Ads and Tracking
Your Logitech mouse, finally local.
A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — with no account and no telemetry.
Small as a mouse, fast as a cheetah and available for free. NetSurf is a multi-platform web browser for RISC OS, UNIX-like platforms (including Linux), Mac OS X, and more.
Whether you want to check your webmail, read the news or post to discussion forums, NetSurf is your lightweight gateway to the world wide web. Actively developed, NetSurf is continually evolving and improving.
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Canvas Terminal Editor.
An infinite zoomable canvas for coding — editor, terminal, and browser panels in a spatial workspace.
Cate is a desktop IDE built on an infinite canvas. Instead of stacking windows and tabs, you spread editors, terminals, browsers, documents, and AI agents across freeform space and arrange them however you think about the project. Float panels on the canvas, dock them into tabs and splits, or detach them into their own OS windows. Cate restores everything when you reopen the folder.
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-chain compromises.
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Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.
Defuse is a local background removal tool written in Python using GTK4 and Libadwaita. Processing is performed using the ISNet-general model through ONNX Runtime.
bcachefs based NAS solution.
NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
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Your Personal AI super intelligence. Private, Simple and extremely powerful. OpenHuman is an open-source agentic assistant designed to integrate with you in your daily life. Each bullet links to the deeper writeup in the docs.
BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
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Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting every module not currently in use.
A single POSIX shell script that shrinks a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface by writing a modprobe.d blacklist for every kernel module not currently in use, minus a built-in baseline and an optional sysadmin whitelist. No daemons, no initramfs changes, no AI inside the tool. One script, one run, one blacklist file.
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Windows pod system for Linux.
Native Linux windows for every Windows app — real icons, real WM_CLASS, pin-to-taskbar. FreeRDP RemoteApp + dockur/windows. Zero config.
Rustinel is an open-source endpoint detection project for Windows and Linux.
It collects native host telemetry using ETW on Windows and eBPF on Linux, normalizes events into a shared model, evaluates Sigma, YARA, and IOC detections, and writes alerts as ECS NDJSON.
Rustinel is designed for blue teams, detection engineers, researchers, and anyone who wants a transparent endpoint detection engine they can inspect, run, test, and extend.
SNES Emulator.
The two original developers of ZSNES are finally back together! Introducing SUPER ZSNES! Re-written completely from scratch, this GPU-powered SNES emulator is here to bring you the following: some of what is familiar, some of what's new, and then some of what goes beyond.
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GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems.
The project collects legitimate functions of Unix-like executables that can be abused to get the f**k break out restricted shells, escalate or maintain elevated privileges, transfer files, spawn bind and reverse shells, and facilitate other post-exploitation tasks.
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Lightweight, self-contained Linux® server monitoring tool.
Zero dependencies. No external databases. Single binary. Just deploy and go.
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Experimental Linux strace LLM agent.
pike-agent records and analyzes how programs behave on Linux. It traces a program's activity, indexes it into a database, and lets you chat with an LLM agent about it in a TUI.
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An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
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A desktop application for managing PostgreSQL databases — backups, restores, scheduling, encryption, data browsing, and more.
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Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
Share files, chat, and find people with similar interests. Nicotine+ is user-friendly, fast, free, and open source. It provides features and refinements that focus on usability, while remaining fully compatible with other Soulseek clients.
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Open-Source Design Editor.
Opens Figma files. Built-in AI. Fully programmable. Also a toolkit for building custom editors.
Sécurix is a NixOS-based secure operating system tailored for small to medium-sized teams. It provides a minimal, hardened environment with strong isolation, reproducibility, and policy-driven configurations to ensure operational security and compliance.
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A beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland. A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland.
Built on Quickshell with a warm lavender aesthetic that you can easily customize to match your vibe.
declarative. reproducible. human-friendly.
Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth – and committed to doing right by its community.
Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS.
The Little Snitch Network Monitor shows you where your Mac connects to on the Internet. You decide what you want to allow or deny.
BIRD is an (not only) IP routing daemon.
The BIRD project aims to develop a fully functional dynamic IP routing daemon primarily targeted on (but not limited to) Linux, FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
BIRD is a dynamic IP routing daemon with full support of most modern routing protocols, easy to use configuration interface and powerful route filtering language, primarily targeted on (but not limited to) Linux and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
A free, cross-platform alternative to Microsoft’s RSAT.
OpenRSAT is a free and open source solution that allows system administrators to manage an Active Directory (AD) environment directly from any operating system: Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Designed as a lightweight alternative to Microsoft’s RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools), OpenRSAT offers a modern, cross-platform graphical interface. It enables system administrators to manage users, groups, and organizational units on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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Native Qobuz client for Linux.
Bit-perfect playback, native control, no browser limits.
Qobuz streams up to 192 kHz. QBZ is an unofficial native Linux client with a Rust audio engine that preserves sample rate and bit depth, supports DAC passthrough, and keeps playback transparent.
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Orbitiny Desktop Environment for Linux.
Built from the ground up using Qt and coded in C++, Orbitiny Desktop is a new, 100% portable, innovative and traditional but modern looking desktop environment for Linux. Innovative because it has features not seen in any other desktop environment before while keeping traditional aspects of computing alive (desktop icons, menus etc).
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An overengineered oversimplified hardware-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG.
A cross-platform batch video encoder that shrinks your video files to a target quality level. No need to babysit the queue or tweak settings per file - just pick a target bitrate, add your files, and hit start.
jemalloc is a general purpose malloc(3) implementation that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support. jemalloc first came into use as the FreeBSD libc allocator in 2005, and since then it has found its way into numerous applications that rely on its predictable behavior. In 2010 jemalloc development efforts broadened to include developer support features such as heap profiling and extensive monitoring/tuning hooks. Modern jemalloc releases continue to be integrated back into FreeBSD, and therefore versatility remains critical. Ongoing development efforts trend toward making jemalloc among the best allocators for a broad range of demanding applications, and eliminating/mitigating weaknesses that have practical repercussions for real world applications.
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Showcase your next product demo with Open Screen. Professional screen recordings with zoom effects, annotations, and beautiful backgrounds.
The fastest macOS package manager. Written in Zig.
A fast package manager for macOS and Linux. Written in Zig. Uses Homebrew's bottles and formulas under the hood, plus native .deb support for Docker containers.
calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts.
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Agentic review of Linux Kernel code changes.
Sashiko is an agentic Linux kernel code review system. It uses a set Linux kernel-specific prompts and a special protocol to review proposed Linux kernel changes. Sashiko can ingest patches from mailing lists or local git. It's fully self contained (doesn't use any external agentic cli tools) and can work with various LLM providers.
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Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Still, it is easy to get started through playable tutorials.
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Open-source app for incredible screen recordings. Create polished product demo videos effortlessly.
Recordly is an open-source screen recorder that adds auto-zoom, smooth cursor animations and more to your videos. Expect bugs.
Privacy-first API platform built with Tauri v2. No login, no cloud, ~60 MB RAM. A lightweight Postman alternative.
A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users.
PhotoGIMP is a free, community-driven patch that transforms GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) into a layout that feels familiar to Adobe Photoshop users. If you're switching from Photoshop to GIMP and want to feel at home right away, PhotoGIMP is for you.
Everything you need to design, simulate and fly better rockets
OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before building and flying them.
The Art of Linux. Simple. Fast. Systemd-free.
Artix Linux is a rolling-release distribution, based on Arch Linux.
It uses real init systems, because PID1 must be simple, secure and stable.
A modern, general-purpose Linux distribution.
Chimera is a general-purpose Linux-based OS born from unhappiness with the status quo. We aim to create a system that is simple, transparent, and easy to pick up, without having to give up practicality and a rich feature set. Chimera uses a novel combination of core tools from FreeBSD, the LLVM toolchain, and the Musl C library, delivering a fresh experience with several major benefits.
It is built from scratch using novel tooling, approaches, and userland. Instead of intentionally limiting ourselves, we strive to achieve both conceptual simplicity and convenience with careful and high quality software design.
service manager, init system.
Dinit is a service manager / supervision system, which can (on Linux) also function as a system manager and init.
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Free Open Source Video Downloader. The Most Powerful Automated Video Downloader
Download videos from YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, Bilibili, and 1000+ other platforms with fast, high-quality up to 4K downloads, batch queues, and RSS auto-download automation.
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