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trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

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trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

Large MIT-licensed curated knowledge base with 212,244 stars and 12,695 forks. It is a README-driven collection of cheatsheets, manuals, lists, blogs, hacks, one-liners, CLI/web tools, and related references, aimed especially at system and network administrators, DevOps, pentesters, and security researchers. The repo is active enough to show a recent push on 2024-11-19, but most visible commit activity in the provided data is documentation/content curation rather than code.

GitHub

Stars212,244

Forks12,695

Default branchmaster

Last pushed2024-11-19T14:00:38Z

Best maintainedNone

Closest to upstreamiLabAcademy/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

Most feature-richnoobzero/awesome-ninja-admins

Most opinionatednoobzero/awesome-ninja-admins

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Fork comparison

OpenCyberTranslationProject/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

stale

substantial

Prefer this fork only if you want its rewritten presentation and fork-specific docs. Prefer upstream if you want the freshest and broadest curated content, because this fork is far behind and appears to be mostly documentation-level divergence.

Likely purpose

A fork for repackaging, localizing, and curating the upstream knowledge base with fork-specific docs and governance files.

Best for

Teams that want a forked, customized presentation of the knowledge base.; Users who value repository-local governance docs and a rewritten landing page over freshness.; Maintainers building a translated or branded derivative of the upstream reference collection.

Additional features

Fork-specific contributor and code-of-conduct documents surfaced at the repository root.
A heavily rewritten README that changes how the knowledge base is presented and onboarded.
Repository-wide presentation changes, including relocating the preview image under `doc/`.
Adds fork-specific behavior in `README.md` and `LICENSE.md`.

Missing features

Upstream's newer curation updates and fixes after the fork point are not present here.
Recent upstream content additions from 2019-2024 are missing, so the list is materially behind upstream.
Any newer upstream maintenance on README structure, links, and curated entries is absent.
It trails upstream by 505 commits, so some recent upstream features and fixes are likely not present yet.

Strengths

Clear fork-specific documentation and governance setup.
Large divergence suggests deliberate repackaging instead of a passive mirror.
Small repository footprint keeps it easy to browse and adapt.

Risks

The fork is very stale relative to upstream activity.
Content coverage is likely outdated compared with upstream's broader and newer curation.
Users expecting the most current cheat sheets and tool lists should prefer upstream.