C#

C is a general-purpose computer programming language.


Software#

This page lists all projects using this programming language or deployment platform. Only the main server-side requirements, packaging or distribution formats are considered.


389 Directory Server#

Enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux.

Website Source Code

★285 2026-05-20 C GPL-3.0

Identity Management - LDAP


Bareos#

Cross-network backup solution which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.

Website Source Code

★1210 2026-05-18 C++ C AGPL-3.0

Backups


BeanstalkD#

A simple, fast work queue.

Website Source Code

★6694 2025-03-18 C MIT

Queuing


Bind#

Versatile, classic, complete name server software.

Website Source Code

★? ? C MPL-2.0

DNS - Servers


Burp#

Network backup and restore program.

Website Source Code

★504 2026-03-08 C AGPL-3.0

Backups


CFEngine#

Configuration management system for automated configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems.

Website Source Code

★523 2026-05-19 C GPL-3.0

Configuration Management


Chrony#

A versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP).

Website Source Code

★48 2026-04-09 C GPL-2.0

Time Servers


Claws Mail#

Old school email client (and news reader), based on GTK+.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-3.0

Mail Clients


Cockpit#

Web-based graphical interface for servers.

Website Source Code

★14103 2026-05-20 C LGPL-2.1

Control Panels


Collectd#

System statistics collection daemon.

Website Source Code

★3353 2025-12-08 C MIT

Metrics & Metric Collection


DD-WRT#

A Linux-based firmware for wireless routers and access points, originally designed for the Linksys WRT54G series.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

Router


djbdns#

A collection of DNS applications, including tinydns.

Website Source Code

★? ? C CC0-1.0

DNS - Servers


dnsmasq#

Provides network infrastructure for small networks: DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

DNS - Servers


DRBD#

Distributed replicated storage system, implemented as a Linux kernel driver.

Website Source Code

★702 2026-05-20 C GPL-2.0

Distributed Filesystems


Eggdrop#

The oldest Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot still in active development.

Website Source Code

★572 2026-05-17 C GPL-2.0

ChatOps


Fossil#

Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking.

Website Source Code

★? ? C BSD-2-Clause

Version control


FreeIPA#

Integrated security information management solution combining Linux (Fedora), 389 Directory Server, Kerberos, NTP, DNS, and Dogtag Certificate System (web interface and command-line administration tools).

Website Source Code

★? ? Python C JavaScript GPL-3.0

Identity Management - LDAP


FreeRADIUS#

Multi-protocol policy server (radiusd) that implements RADIUS, DHCP, BFD, and ARP and associated client/PAM library/Apache module.

Website Source Code

★2523 2026-05-20 C GPL-2.0

Identity Management - LDAP


Geany#

GTK2 text editor.

Website Source Code

★3611 2026-03-20 C C++ GPL-2.0

Editors


Git#

Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed.

Website Source Code

★61069 2026-05-20 C GPL-2.0

Version control


GlusterFS#

Software-defined distributed storage that can scale to several petabytes, with interfaces for object, block and file storage.

Website Source Code

★5180 2026-02-16 C GPL-2.0 LGPL-3.0

Distributed Filesystems


GNU Emacs#

An extensible, customizable text editor-and more.

Website Source Code

★5062 2026-05-20 C GPL-3.0

Editors


GNU Make#

The most popular automation build tool for many purposes, make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program’s source files.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-3.0

Automation


GoAccess#

Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal or through the browser.

Website Source Code

★20552 2026-04-23 C MIT

Log Management


Knot#

High performance authoritative-only DNS server.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-3.0

DNS - Servers


KVM#

Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0 LGPL-2.0

Virtualization


Lustre#

Parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

Distributed Filesystems


LXC#

Userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features.

Website Source Code

★5183 2026-05-20 C GPL-2.0

Software Containers


Mercurial#

Distributed source control management tool.

Website Source Code

★? ? Python C Rust GPL-2.0

Version control


Monit#

Small utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems.

Website Source Code

★? ? C AGPL-3.0

Monitoring & Status Pages


MooseFS#

Fault tolerant, network distributed file system.

Website Source Code

★1976 2026-05-18 C GPL-2.0

Distributed Filesystems


mtr#

Network utility that combines traceroute and ping.

Website Source Code

★3236 2026-05-14 C GPL-2.0

Troubleshooting


Mutt#

Small but very powerful text-based mail client.

Website Source Code

★482 2026-05-16 C GPL-2.0

Mail Clients


Naemon#

Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features.

Website Source Code

★170 2026-05-18 C GPL-2.0

Monitoring & Status Pages


Nagios#

Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application.

Website Source Code

★1995 2026-04-13 C GPL-2.0

Monitoring & Status Pages


Nano#

Easy to use, customizable text editor.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-3.0

Editors


NetXMS#

Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management.

Website Source Code

★357 2026-05-20 Java C++ C LGPL-3.0 GPL-3.0

Monitoring & Status Pages


NSD#

Authoritative DNS name server developed speed, reliability, stability and security.

Website Source Code

★547 2026-05-12 C BSD-3-Clause

DNS - Servers


NTPsec#

A secure, hardened, and improved implementation of Network Time Protocol derived from NTP Classic.

Website Source Code

★157 2026-05-19 C BSD-2-Clause

Time Servers


ocserv#

Cisco AnyConnect-compatible VPN server.

Website Source Code

★362 2026-05-19 C GPL-2.0

VPN


OpenAFS#

Distributed network file system with read-only replicas and multi-OS support.

Website Source Code

★? ? C IPL-1.0

Distributed Filesystems


OpenLDAP#

Open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (server, libraries and clients).

Website Source Code

★? ? C OLDAP-2.8

Identity Management - LDAP


OpenNTPD#

A FREE, easy to use implementation of the Network Time Protocol.

Website Source Code

★23 2026-04-22 C ISC

Time Servers


OpenVox#

Community fork of the last open source version of Puppet, a software configuration management tool which includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration.

Website Source Code

★168 2026-05-20 Ruby C Apache-2.0

Configuration Management


OpenVPN#

Uses a custom security protocol that utilizes SSL/TLS for key exchange.

Website Source Code

★13875 2026-05-14 C GPL-2.0

VPN


OpenVZ#

Container-based virtualization for Linux.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

Software Containers


OpenWrt#

A Linux-based router featuring Mesh networking, IPS via snort and AQM among many other features.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

Router


OPNsense#

An open source FreeBSD-based firewall and router with traffic shaping, load balancing, and virtual private network capabilities.

Website Source Code

★? ? C PHP BSD-2-Clause

Router


Performance Co-Pilot#

Lightweight, distributed system performance and analysis framework.

Website Source Code

★1062 2026-05-20 C LGPL-2.1 GPL-2.0

Monitoring & Status Pages


Perkeep#

A set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data (previously Camlistore).

Website Source Code

★7124 2026-02-01 C Apache-2.0

Distributed Filesystems


QEMU#

QEMU is a generic machine emulator and virtualizer.

Website Source Code

★989 2026-05-20 C LGPL-2.1

Virtualization


Remmina#

Feature-rich remote desktop application for linux and other unixes.

Website Source Code

★890 2026-05-19 C GPL-2.0

Remote Desktop Clients


RRDtool#

Industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data.

Website Source Code

★1095 2026-05-19 C GPL-2.0

Metrics & Metric Collection


rsyslog#

Rocket-fast system for log processing.

Website Source Code

★2291 2026-05-20 C GPL-3.0

Log Management


Samba#

Active Directory and CIFS protocol implementation.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-3.0

Identity Management - Tools and web interfaces


SoftEther#

Multi-protocol software VPN with advanced features.

Website Source Code

★13242 2026-05-09 C Apache-2.0

VPN


strongSwan#

Complete IPsec implementation for Linux.

Website Source Code

★2871 2026-05-19 C GPL-2.0

VPN


Subversion#

Client-server revision control system.

Website Source Code

★? ? C Apache-2.0

Version control


Sylpheed#

Still developed predecessor to Claws Mail, lightweight mail client.

Website Source Code

★176 2022-09-13 C GPL-2.0

Mail Clients


Sysdig#

Capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.

Website Source Code

★8247 2026-04-13 Docker Lua C Apache-2.0

Troubleshooting


systemd-nspawn#

Lightweight, chroot-like, environment to run an OS or command directly under systemd.

Website Source Code

★16312 2026-05-20 C GPL-2.0

Software Containers


Thunderbird#

Free email application that’s easy to set up and customize.

Website Source Code

★? ? C C++ MPL-2.0

Mail Clients


Unbound#

Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

Website Source Code

★4549 2026-05-20 C BSD-3-Clause

DNS - Servers


UrBackup#

Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Website Source Code

★867 2026-01-15 C C++ AGPL-3.0

Backups


Vim#

A highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient editing.

Website Source Code

★40375 2026-05-20 C Vim

Editors


Wazuh#

Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

Website Source Code

★15650 2026-05-20 C GPL-2.0

Monitoring & Status Pages


WireGuard#

Very fast VPN based on elliptic curve and public key crypto.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

VPN


Wireshark#

The world’s foremost network protocol analyzer.

Website Source Code

★1574 2026-05-20 C GPL-2.0

Troubleshooting


XCP-ng#

Virtualization platform based on Xen Source and Citrix® Hypervisor (formerly XenServer).

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

Virtualization


Xen#

Virtual machine monitor for 32/64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

Virtualization


Yadifa#

Clean, small, light and RFC-compliant name server implementation developed from scratch by .eu.

Website Source Code

★80 2026-03-24 C BSD-3-Clause

DNS - Servers


Zabbix#

Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications.

Website Source Code

★? ? C GPL-2.0

Monitoring & Status Pages