A curated list of awesome software projects.
- Music Player Daemon: A flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.
- ncmpcpp: An ncurses based MPD client
- WeeChat: An extensible chat client.
- calcurse: A text-based calendar and scheduling application.
- khard: A command-line CardDAV client.
- vdirsyncer: Synchronize calendars and contacts.
- isync: A command line application which synchronizes mailboxes.
- NeoMutt: A command line mail reader based on Mutt.
- Notmuch: Not much of an email program. A fast, global-search and tag-based email system.
- pass: The standard Unix password manager.
- Neovim: A hyperextensible Vim-based text editor.
- Newsboat: An RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
- plan9port: A port of many Plan 9 programs from their native Plan 9 environment to Unix-like operating systems.
- Vis: A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions.
- oksh: Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).
- sloc: Count source lines of code.
- smu: Simple MarkUp - markdown/commonmark like syntax.
- fzf: A command line fuzzy finder.
- sxiv: Simple X Image Viewer.
- Surfraw: A fast Unix command line interface to a variety of popular search engines.
- zathura: A highly customizable and functional document viewer.
- mpv: A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
- dwm: A dynamic window manager for X.
- st: A simple terminal implementation for X.
- dmenu: A dynamic menu for X.
- slock: A simple X display locker.
- tabbed: A simple generic tabbed frontend to xembed-aware applications.
- Ataraxia GNU/Linux: An independent Linux-based OS focusing on simplicity, security and privacy.
- glaucus: An independent Linux distribution built from scratch.
- 9front: A fork of Plan 9 From Bell Labs.
- Arch Linux: A lightweight and flexible Linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.
- coreboot: Fast, secure and flexible Open Source firmware.
- Matrix: An open network for secure, decentralized communication.
- suckless: Home of dwm, dmenu and other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality.
- cat-v: A site that hosts Unix and Plan 9 documents among a variety of other things.
- musl: A lightweight, fast, simple, and free implementation of the C standard library for Linux.
- tcc: a tiny C compiler.
- stagit: A static git page generator.
- DASH: A POSIX-compliant implementation of
/bin/sh
that aims to be as small as possible. - maim: A utility that takes screenshots of your desktop.
- Replicant: A fully free (as in freedom) Android distribution.
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs: A research system developed at Bell Labs starting in the late 1980s.