awesome-gitrepos-outside-github

A curated list of awesome git repositories hosted outside GitHub — including self-hosted platforms, alternative forges, and notable projects whose primary source of truth and development is not on GitHub.
https://github.com/naranyala/awesome-gitrepos-outside-github

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Applications & Multimedia
- Public Instances
  - **GNU Emacs** - documenting real-time display editor.
  - **LibreOffice**
  - **Blender**
  - **GIMP**
  - **Krita**
  - **Inkscape**
  - **KiCad**
  - **VLC Media Player**
  - **foot**
  - **fuzzel**
  - **FFmpeg** - platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
  - **GStreamer**
  - **PipeWire**
  - **PulseAudio** - purpose sound server for POSIX OSes.
  - **Ardour**
  - **Pass**
  - **F-Droid**
  - **aerc**
  - **catgirl** - only terminal IRC client.
  - **GNU Screen** - screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
  - **GNU Nano**
  - **Mutt** - based mail client.
  - **Kdenlive**
Core Frameworks & Libraries
- Public Instances
  - **Qt** - platform application framework and widget toolkit.
  - **Cairo**
  - **FreeType**
  - **EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries)**
  - **CMake**
Core System & Toolchains
- Public Instances
  - **Git**
  - **GCC (GNU Compiler Collection)**
  - **Glibc (GNU C Library)**
  - **Musl libc**
  - **GNU Coreutils**
  - **GNU Bash** - Again SHell.
  - **GnuPG**
  - **Samba**
  - **BusyBox**
  - **GNU Binutils & GDB**
  - **GNU Guix**
  - **pacman** - based package manager with dependency support used by Arch Linux.
  - **Libreboot**
  - **s6**
  - **Zsh**
  - **GRUB**
  - **Coreboot**
  - **Woodpecker CI**
  - **Cygwin & Newlib**
  - **Valgrind**
Databases
- Public Instances
  - **PostgreSQL**
  - **SQLite**
Desktop Environments & Display Servers
- Public Instances
  - **Wayland**
  - **XServer**
  - **Mesa** - source OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics API implementations.
  - **GNOME (GTK)**
  - **KDE Plasma**
  - **Sway (wlroots)**
  - **River**
  - **Xfce** - like operating systems.
  - **dwm**
  - **st**
  - **Enlightenment** - candy and performance.
Ecosystems & Companion Tools
- Desktop Core Apps (GitLab instances)
- GNU Ecosystem (Savannah)
  - **Org-mode**
  - **GNU Make** - source files of a program.
  - **GNU Awk (gawk)**
- Linux Userland & Networking Core (kernel.org / freedesktop)
  - **util-linux**
  - **iproute2**
  - **D-Bus** - process communication on Linux.
  - **NetworkManager**
- Operating System Tooling
  - **apk-tools**
  - **FreeBSD Ports**
- Suckless Tools (git.suckless.org)
- Terminal Email Syncing (SourceForge / cgit)
  - **isync (mbsync)**
  - **msmtp**
- Wayland & Sway (SourceHut)
Emulation & Virtualization
- Public Instances
  - **QEMU**
  - **Wine** - compliant operating systems.
  - **Xen Project**
Games
- Public Instances
  - **Veloren**
  - **Xonotic**
  - **0 A.D.** - source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game and engine.
  - **OpenMW** - source game engine reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Git Hosting Platforms
- Public Instances
  - gitlab.com - source community |
  - codeberg.org - profit, community-driven, runs Forgejo |
  - gitee.com - based, popular in Chinese dev community |
  - bitbucket.org
  - sr.ht
- Self-Hosted
  - go-gitea/gitea - hosted Git service written in Go |
  - forgejo/forgejo - driven fork of Gitea |
  - gitlabhq/gitlabhq - source GitLab Community Edition |
Operating Systems & Kernels
- Public Instances
  - **Linux Kernel**
  - **Android (AOSP)**
  - **FreeBSD**
  - **OpenBSD**
  - **NetBSD**
  - **Fuchsia** - based operating system.
  - **Haiku** - source OS targeting personal computing, inspired by BeOS.
  - **Alpine Linux** - oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.
  - **Gentoo**
  - **Yocto Project (Poky)**
  - **Buildroot** - to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems.
  - **OpenWrt**
  - **9front**
  - **Trisquel**
  - **GNU Hurd**
  - **MINIX 3**
  - **postmarketOS**
  - **Ubuntu Touch**
Programming Languages
- Public Instances
  - **Go**
  - **Ruby**
  - **GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler)**
  - **V8** - performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.
  - **Free Pascal** - bit professional Pascal compiler.
  - **Hare**
  - **Vala** - oriented language that compiles to C and is deeply integrated with GObject.
  - **GNU Guile**
  - **Tcl/Tk**
Web & Networking
- Public Instances
  - **Chromium** - source browser project behind Google Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc.
  - **Tor Browser**
  - **OpenSSH**
  - **WireGuard**
  - **Wireshark**
  - **Tor**
  - **HAProxy**
  - **MediaWiki**
  - **Drupal**
  - **PeerTube**
  - **Mobilizon**
  - **Pleroma**
  - **cgit**
  - **NetSurf**
  - **Ikiwiki**
  - **GNU IceCat**
  - **Lighttpd** - server.
  - **BIND 9**
  - **Exim**
  - **Jami**
  - **Gajim** - featured XMPP client written in Python and GTK.
  - **GnuTLS**
  - **GNU Wget** - interactive network downloader.

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GNU Ecosystem (Savannah)

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Suckless Tools (git.suckless.org)

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