Many Open Source projects available outside of GitHub and GitLab

As beginners, We mainly focus on the view that we have in front of us and as a human, we look for where there is a crowd and look mostly where there is most opportunity. But this article aims to look everywhere to gain a broader view.

At the beginning of the software development journey and open source exploring, I felt the same experience as looking into the famous GitHub / GitLab sites. Later for the first time, came to know that there are many open-source projects that are hosted in their system and made publicly available.

Edit: Let's take the examples of these projects for this article.

libcamera - An open-source camera stack project dedicated to Linux systems. They hosted the complete source code on their host. They did not host on popular sites like GitHub, or GitLab.

source code: https://git.libcamera.org/libcamera/libcamera.git/

Later came to know about the source code hosts by FFMPEG, VLC Media Player also follows a similar style of hosting and some organizations also make their host a mirror in the famous popular git site but they maintain it as a mirror repo and main work can be found on their hosted git site. ex: https://github.com/videolan/vlc

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