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Debian projects on GitHub

Debian Linux distribution packaging and tooling

As of , the most-starred Debian projects on GitHub are jitsi-meet (30.1K stars), ProxmoxVE (29.8K stars) and setup-ipsec-vpn (28.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 21 Debian repositories with 266.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was DEsk, with +172 stars in a day.

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+279Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+172

DEsk

fyzugx/DEsk · ★ 1K

DEsk is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux built around a realistic skeuomorphic design (like iOS 6) where the whole desktop is drawn as an actual desk: windows are sheets of paper, the dock is a drawer, apps sit in binders on a bookshelf, notifications arrive in a post box, and settings live in a control panel built into the desk.

+20

gopeed

GopeedLab/gopeed · ★ 27K

Gopeed (short for Go Speed) is a free, open-source download manager built with Go and Flutter. It handles HTTP, HTTPS, BitTorrent, magnet links, and ed2k across desktop, mobile, and the web.

+16

reinstall

bin456789/reinstall · ★ 13.8K

A one-click script that reinstalls a VPS's operating system over the network: about 20 common Linux distros, or Windows from official ISOs — and the machine can currently be running either Linux or Windows.

+14

ProxmoxVE

community-scripts/ProxmoxVE · ★ 29.8K

A community-maintained set of one-command install scripts for Proxmox VE: paste a single line into your Proxmox shell and it sets up a popular self-hosted service as a ready container or VM.

The all-time top

21 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · jitsi/jitsi-meet

    jitsi-meet

    Jitsi Meet is a set of open-source projects for secure, simple and scalable video conferencing — use it as a standalone service or embed it in your own web application.

    30.1K
  2. #2 · community-scripts/ProxmoxVE

    ProxmoxVE

    A community-maintained set of one-command install scripts for Proxmox VE: paste a single line into your Proxmox shell and it sets up a popular self-hosted service as a ready container or VM.

    29.8K
  3. #3 · hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn

    setup-ipsec-vpn

    A set of shell scripts that turns a fresh Linux server into your own IPsec VPN server in minutes, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2 modes. Traffic is encrypted so nobody between you and the server can eavesdrop.

    28.7K
  1. 4

    gopeed

    27KGopeedLab/gopeed · Dart

    Gopeed (short for Go Speed) is a free, open-source download manager built with Go and Flutter. It handles HTTP, HTTPS, BitTorrent, magnet links, and ed2k across desktop, mobile, and the web.

  2. 5

    distroless

    23.1KGoogleContainerTools/distroless · Starlark

    A set of minimal container base images that contain only your application and its runtime dependencies — no package managers, shells or other programs you would expect in a normal Linux distribution.

  3. 6

    openvpn-install

    20.6KNyr/openvpn-install · Shell

    A shell script that automatically sets up your own OpenVPN road warrior VPN server on Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS or Fedora.

  4. 7

    webvm

    17.4Kleaningtech/webvm · Svelte

    WebVM is a Linux virtual machine that runs entirely in your browser — an unmodified Debian distribution with native development toolchains, fully client-side, no install and no server.

  5. 8

    Qv2ray

    16.9KQv2ray/Qv2ray · C++

    Qv2ray is a cross-platform graphical client for V2Ray: it connects you to V2Ray-based proxy servers and ships an extensible plugin system for extra protocols.

  6. 9

    openvpn-install

    16.2Kangristan/openvpn-install · Shell

    An installer script that sets up and manages your own OpenVPN server on a Linux machine you control — a VPS, a dedicated server or even a home computer — and generates client config files for every device you want to connect.

  7. 10

    reinstall

    13.8Kbin456789/reinstall · Shell

    A one-click script that reinstalls a VPS's operating system over the network: about 20 common Linux distros, or Windows from official ISOs — and the machine can currently be running either Linux or Windows.

  8. 11

    distrobox

    13.1K89luca89/distrobox · Go

    Distrobox lets you run any Linux distribution inside your terminal using containers, giving you backward and forward software compatibility while keeping the environment tightly integrated with your host system.

  9. 12

    sovereign

    10.6Ksovereign/sovereign · HTML

    Sovereign is a set of Ansible playbooks that build and maintain your own private cloud on a server you control, bundling email, calendar/contacts sync, file storage, VPN, an IRC bouncer, webmail, and more.

  10. 13

    amlogic-s9xxx-armbian

    10.2Kophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian · Shell

    This is a project that lets you replace the Android TV firmware on Amlogic, Allwinner, and Rockchip TV boxes and SBCs with Armbian, turning them into real Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux servers. It also ships management commands for installing, updating the kernel, and configuring the resulting system.

  11. 14

    codex-desktop-linux

    3.9Kilysenko/codex-desktop-linux · JavaScript

    codex-desktop is an unofficial, community-maintained distribution of OpenAI's official Linux ChatGPT desktop app. It repackages the signed upstream payload into native deb, RPM, pacman, AppImage, and Nix outputs, adds optional Linux-only features, and installs as a separate 'ChatGPT Community' app alongside the official one.

  12. 15

    wireguard-install

    3.1Khwdsl2/wireguard-install · Shell

    A shell script that automatically installs and configures a WireGuard VPN server on Linux, letting you set up your own VPN in a few minutes without prior WireGuard experience.

  13. 16

    DEsk

    1Kfyzugx/DEsk · C

    DEsk is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux built around a realistic skeuomorphic design (like iOS 6) where the whole desktop is drawn as an actual desk: windows are sheets of paper, the dock is a drawer, apps sit in binders on a bookshelf, notifications arrive in a post box, and settings live in a control panel built into the desk.

  14. 17

    3X-UI_KIT

    450itsnotkubrick/3X-UI_KIT · Shell

    A script that turns a clean VPS into a ready VPN server in minutes: it installs the official 3X-UI panel, sets up 11 popular protocols, a certificate and a firewall, and gives you one subscription link. No domain needed.

  15. 18

    fluxcast

    444IlyaP358/fluxcast · Python

    FluxCast streams a Linux desktop to a smart TV, TV box, or projector using Wi-Fi Direct/Miracast (WFD), DLNA, or Google Cast.

  16. 19

    ServerBox

    264madeye/ServerBox · Kotlin

    ServerBox is an Android app that turns an old phone into a Linux server without rooting it, running Alpine, Arch, Debian, Kali or Ubuntu with an always-on SSH server.

  17. 20

    veet

    153swadhinbiswas/veet · Go

    VEET is a TUI and CLI uninstallation suite for Linux that removes not just the app binary but all the leftover config, cache, and sandbox data most package managers leave behind.

  18. 21

    xdp-dns-evadeproxy

    131Oihalitz/xdp-dns-evadeproxy · Rust

    A DNS proxy in Rust that sidesteps blanket ISP IP blocks: when an operator cuts off an anycast address shared by hundreds of Cloudflare sites, it rewrites that IP in the DNS response to an unblocked neighbor of the same prefix.

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