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Top 13 C++ Freebsd Projects
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warzone2100
Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+
Project mention: Ask HN: Which Do you know any open source games? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-10 -
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- Project mention: Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-16
Intel has a Performance Monitoring Unit on its core that has significant overlap.
Forgetting this tool-space, but at least some of these tools can make use of that hardware:
https://github.com/intel/pcm https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools
- Project mention: Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-04
Well, I mean... [gesticulates frantically towards DwarFS[0].
Privileged techies with free time who are bored out of your mind -- stop dragging your feet already!
No, the world does not need your LISP interpreter that just so happens to be the 3689th on the planet (one would think that would tell you something but apparently not). Get to work and start solving actual problems. Chop-chop now.
Yeah I am disgruntled, how can you tell? O_o
(/s, obviously, for the inevitable guy who takes everything dead-seriously.)
[0] https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs/
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fast_float
Fast and exact implementation of the C++ from_chars functions for number types: 4x to 10x faster than strtod, part of GCC 12, MySQL, Chromium, Redis and WebKit/Safari
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filesystem
An implementation of C++17 std::filesystem for C++11 /C++14/C++17/C++20 on Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD.
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glsmac
Unofficial open-source OpenGL/SDL2 reimplementation of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ( + Alien Crossfire )
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SeriousSamClassic
Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS). Based on https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine and linux port https://github.com/icculus/Serious-Engine
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SeriousSamClassic-VK
Open source game engine version developed by Croteam for Serious Sam Classic with Vulkan support (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS). Based on https://github.com/sultim-t/Serious-Engine-Vk and linux port https://github.com/icculus/Serious-Engine
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- Project mention: Show HN: CodeOrb – Open-source µC debugging tool | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-23
NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Freebsd projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | warzone2100 | 3,614 |
| 2 | pcm | 3,158 |
| 3 | dwarfs | 2,457 |
| 4 | fast_float | 1,943 |
| 5 | freac | 1,710 |
| 6 | filesystem | 1,493 |
| 7 | gsmartcontrol | 614 |
| 8 | glsmac | 535 |
| 9 | QEFIEntryManager | 304 |
| 10 | SeriousSamClassic | 162 |
| 11 | SeriousSamClassic-VK | 139 |
| 12 | powerdxx | 84 |
| 13 | code-orb | 14 |
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