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moonwalk
Cover your tracks during Linux Exploitation by leaving zero traces
Cover your tracks during Linux Exploitation / Penetration Testing by leaving zero traces on system logs and filesystem timestamps. moonwalk is a 400 KB single-binary executable that can clear your traces while penetration testing a Unix machine. It saves the state of system logs pre-exploitation and reverts that state including the filesystem timestamps post-exploitation leaving zero traces of a ghost in the shell. -
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The Determinate Nix Installer
Install Nix and flakes with the reliable Determinate Nix Installer
Install Nix and flakes with the fast and reliable Determinate Nix Installer, with over 2 million installs. -
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Felix OS
Experimental operating system written in Rust
felix is a simple 64-bit hobby operating system written in Rust, designed as an educational and personal exploration into systems programming. It features a monolithic kernel that supports basic multitasking, memory management, and user programs. Built from the ground up with Rust’s strong safety guarantees, felix aims to strike a balance between low-level hardware access and modern software practices. It runs on x86_64 platforms via QEMU and includes a basic shell and ELF binary loader, making it an excellent resource for learning OS fundamentals. -
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Vector
A high-performance observability data pipeline
Vector is a Rust‑based, high‑performance observability data pipeline tool (agent + aggregator) designed to collect, transform, and route logs and metrics at scale. Created by Datadog, it aims to be the only tool needed from ingestion to vendor output, providing cost-efficient, safe, and flexible telemetry processing. -
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fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
fd is a program to find entries in your filesytem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases. First, to get an overview of all available command line options, you can either run fd -h for a concise help message or fd --help for a more detailed version. fd is designed to find entries in your filesystem. The most basic search you can perform is to run fd with a single argument: the search pattern. Instead of just showing the search results, you often want to do something with them. fd provides two ways to execute external commands for each of your search results: the -x/--exec option runs an external command for each of the search results (in parallel), or the -X/--exec-batch option launches the external command once, with all search results as arguments. -
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v86
x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser
v86 is an open-source x86 PC emulator that runs entirely in the browser using WebAssembly for near-native performance. It translates x86 machine code into WebAssembly at runtime, enabling users to boot and run full operating systems without installing anything locally. The emulator supports a wide range of legacy systems, including Linux, Windows 95/98/2000, FreeDOS, and various experimental OSes. It simulates essential hardware components such as CPU, memory, VGA graphics, sound cards, network adapters, and storage controllers. Designed for both experimentation and embedding, v86 can be integrated into web apps or used as a standalone virtual machine environment. Overall, it provides a powerful way to explore operating systems, retro computing, and low-level system behavior directly from a web browser. -
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display-switch
Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM switch
This utility watches for USB device connect/disconnect events and switches monitor inputs via DDC/CI. This turns a simple USB switch into a full-fledged KVM solution: press one button on your USB switch and all your monitors connect to a different input. It is supposed to be installed on all computers that could be connected to these monitors since the app only switches monitors "one way" and relies on itself running on the other computers to switch it "the other way" as needed. -
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rip2
A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
rip is a rust-based rm with a focus on safety, ergonomics, and performance. It favors a simple interface and does not implement the xdg-trash spec or attempt to achieve the same goals. Deleted files get sent to the graveyard (typically /tmp/graveyard-$USER, see notes on changing this) under their absolute path, giving you a chance to recover them. No data is overwritten. If files that share the same path are deleted, they will be renamed as numbered backups. -
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NebiOS Alternative Mirror (Official)
An Ubuntu Linux-based OS that aims to end user.
NebiOS is Ubuntu-based secure, privacy-focused universal OS for daily life, creativity, gaming & more. Official mirror - use if main site has download issues. Main site: https://nebios.org ⚠️ DON'T DOWNLOAD FROM UNKNOWN SOURCES! 🛡️ Privacy: NebiOS has no telemetry, no background data services, no tracking daemons, and cannot send any personal data without user action. Full policy: nebisoftware.com/legal/privacy.html === 🚀 NebiOS X out now! ⚠️ Note on Virtual Machines: NebiOS X is optimized and designed for real hardware performance and native GPU acceleration. Virtualization platforms (VMware, VirtualBox, GNOME Boxes, etc.) may show degraded graphics or system performance. For accurate testing, please install NebiOS X on physical hardware. === System Requirements and informations about before installation can be found at https://nebios.org/download (select your version for it) -
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Firecracker
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology developed by AWS for deploying secure micro-VMs (microVMs) that offer strong isolation with minimal overhead. Designed for serverless workloads (e.g., AWS Lambda, Fargate), it combines VM-level security with container-like performance and startup speed. -
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OpenObserve
Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for (logs, metrics, traces)
OpenObserve is a cloud-native observability platform built specifically for logs, metrics, traces, and analytics designed to work at a petabyte scale. It is very simple and easy to operate as opposed to Elasticsearch which requires a couple of dozen knobs to understand and tune which you can get up and running in under 2 minutes. It is a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch if you are just ingesting data using APIs and searching using Kibana (Kibana is not supported nor required with OpenObserve. OpenObserve provides its own UI which does not require separate installation unlike Kibana). You can reduce your log storage costs by ~140x compared to Elasticsearch by using OpenObserve. Below are the results when we pushed logs from our production Kubernetes cluster to Elasticsearch and OpenObserve using fluent bit. OpenObserve stored data in Amazon s3 and Elasticsearch stored data on Amazon EBS volumes. -
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parseable
Parseable is a log analytics system written in Rust
Parseable is a log analytics platform, built for the modern, cloud native era. Parseable uses a index-free mechanism to organize and query data allowing low latency, and high throughput ingestion and query. -
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Bottlerocket OS
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Bottlerocket is a free and open-source Linux-based operating system meant for hosting containers. Bottlerocket focuses on security and maintainability, providing a reliable, consistent, and safe platform for container-based workloads. This is a reflection of what we've learned building operating systems and services at Amazon. The base operating system has just what you need to run containers reliably, and is built with standard open-source components. Bottlerocket-specific additions focus on reliable updates and on the API. Instead of making configuration changes manually, you can change settings with an API call, and these changes are automatically migrated through updates. Hosting containers doesn’t require much from an operating system and hosting containers is all Bottlerocket aims to do. Many of the packages, tools, interpreters, and dependencies installed by default in general-purpose Linux distributions are simply not needed to only host containers. -
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Broot
A new way to see and navigate directory trees
Get an overview of a directory, even a big one. That's what makes it usable where the old tree command would produce pages of output. Hit alt/enter and you're back to the terminal in the desired location. This way, you can navigate to a directory with the minimum amount of keystrokes, even if you don't exactly remember where it is. Broot is fast and doesn't block (any keystroke interrupts the current search to start the next one). Never lose track of file hierarchy while you search. Broot tries to select the most relevant file. You can still go from one match to another one using tab or arrow keys. You may also search with a regular expression. To do this, add a / before the pattern. You may also apply logical operators or combine patterns, for example searching test in all files except json ones could be !/json$/&c/test and searching carg both in file names and file contents would be carg|c/carg. -
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Fireplace
Modular wayland window manager written in rust
Fireplace is a lightweight, modular Wayland tiling window manager written in Rust. Built on Smithay or wlc (in older code), it supports floating windows, BSP-style tiling, layer-shell basics, and workspace concepts. It aims to serve as a rapid-development playground for rich, keyboard-driven desktop workflows with GNOME compatibility goals. -
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GCSF
a FUSE file system based on Google Drive
GCSF is a virtual filesystem that allows users to mount their Google Drive account locally and interact with it as a regular disk partition. Update (April 2019): I am currently still using and maintaining this project but I have very little time to dedicate to it. As such, it might take a while before I get around to fixing known bugs / implementing feature requests / responding to open issues. Thank you for understanding and for expressing sustained interest in this project. GCSF requires the stable branch of the Rust programming language, which can be installed following the instructions on rustup.rs. If you already have Rust installed, make sure that it is updated to the latest version (≥1.26). Make sure you have pkg-config and the fuse library installed. These are usually found in the package repositories of major distributions. Rust can be installed via the lang/rust port. You will need to install sysutils/fusefs-libs for the cairo install command to succeed. -
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Hermit Kernel
A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel
Hermit Kernel is the core component of HermitCore, a Rust-based unikernel that runs directly on hypervisors or bare-metal systems to support high-performance cloud and HPC applications. This repository contains the microkernel’s implementation, optimized for running Rust applications natively in a lightweight, single-address-space environment. Hermit Kernel is designed to reduce latency and overhead by avoiding traditional OS abstractions, while still providing essential services such as scheduling, memory management, and networking. It bridges the gap between performance-critical applications and the simplicity of unikernel deployment. -
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Horust
Horust is a supervisor / init system written in rust
Horust is a Rust-based init system for Linux, designed to be fast, simple, and secure. Unlike traditional init systems, Horust focuses on stateless configuration using TOML files and aims to bring predictability and ease of use to system boot and service management. Written with Rust’s safety guarantees, Horust provides features like dependency handling, parallel service startup, and logging, making it suitable for containers, embedded systems, or minimal Linux environments where systemd is too complex or heavy. -
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Kerla
A new operating system kernel with Linux binary compatibility
Kerla is an experimental operating system kernel written in Rust with a Linux-compatible syscall interface. It aims to run Linux binaries in user space without relying on a traditional Linux kernel. Kerla combines the safety guarantees of Rust with a familiar POSIX-like programming model, making it a unique exploration into safe systems programming. Though early in development, it supports basic userspace execution and is a promising proof-of-concept for running Linux userland programs in a fully Rust-based kernel. -
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Matchbox
Painless peer-to-peer WebRTC networking for rust wasm
Matchbox is a WebRTC-based networking library for the Bevy game engine, enabling multiplayer games to run in the browser or native environments with peer-to-peer communication. It handles matchmaking, NAT traversal, and synchronization in real-time, making it easier for game developers to add fast and scalable multiplayer features. Designed with simplicity and performance in mind, Matchbox supports both WebAssembly and desktop targets. It’s especially useful for browser-based games that need reliable real-time communication without external dependencies. -
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Reth
Implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust
reth is a modular, blazing-fast Ethereum execution client written in Rust, developed by Paradigm. It implements the Ethereum protocol from scratch with a focus on speed, security, and modularity, providing a modern alternative to legacy clients like Geth or Besu. reth is optimized for running full nodes, indexing, and light clients, and is intended to be integrated easily into Ethereum infrastructure. With parallelized execution and efficient state management, reth supports both archival and pruned node modes, contributing to Ethereum's decentralized network resilience. -
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Rust for windows uiautomation
The uiatomation-rs crate is a wrapper for windows uiautomation
The uiatomation-rs crate is a wrapper for Windows uiautomation. This crate can help you make Windows uiautoamtion API calls conveniently. Start by adding the dependency of this crate to your Cargo.toml file. Make use of any Windows uiautomation calls as needed. -
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SRHD
Simple Rust Hotkey Daemon for macOS
Simple Rust Hotkey Daemon is a minimal and lightweight key binding service for MacOS similar to skhd. It can be run as in the background using the native launchctl to interact with launchd via a plist file. This functionality has been offloaded to my launchctl Rust library. -
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Smithay
A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
Smithay is a modular toolkit for building Wayland compositors in Rust. Rather than a standalone compositor, it provides building blocks like protocol handlers, session backends, DRM abstractions, and input/output utilities. It supports core and extended Wayland protocols, libseat, tablets, graphics tablets, Xwayland, and more. It's mature and under active development, providing a “smithy” for compositor authors. -
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Tock OS
A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers
Tock is a secure, embedded operating system designed for microcontrollers and low-power hardware platforms. Written in Rust, it uses a novel kernel architecture where the OS runs a minimal trusted core and all userland code, including device drivers, is sandboxed and isolated. Tock is ideal for IoT devices, wearables, and embedded research projects where reliability and safety are critical. Its capability-based security model and preemptive multitasking allow developers to safely run multiple applications on constrained devices with confidence in memory and fault isolation.
