Welcome Friend!

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Hello Friend and welcome to The Friendly Manual. You know, as in RTFM – ‘Read The Friendly Manual.’ (That’s right, the ‘F’ stands for ‘Friendly.’ Trust me on this, I would never lie to you about something so important.)

This project aims to showcase and promote Free/Libre and Open Source Software. It began life as a forum thread on South Africa’s number one IT website, mybroadband.co.za with community members contributing hundreds of their favourite Free or Open Source applications to a ‘Useful List of Free/Libre/Open Source Software Projects.’

The list has been hosted as a Github Gist but now we have upgraded to a website so we can make the list even more useful and publish richer content such as tutorials and blog articles.

Please check out our Friendly Free Software Directory for a list of Free software that we hope you will find interesting and useful. You can find the original forum thread HERE and the original list HERE.

Thanks for stopping by. Please check back soon for more Free and Open Source software related content.

poddl

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poddl

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

poddl is a cross-platform command line podcast downloader for downloading all or select episodes from an RSS feed, compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac. It supports various options for batch downloading and file naming, making the process of managing podcasts efficient and customizable.

Backrest

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Backrest

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0 license

Description:

Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup, offering an intuitive interface for managing backups, snapshots, and repositories, with support for various storage options and scheduled operations. Built with Go, it aims to provide easy backup management across multiple platforms.

hidamari

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hidamari

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0 License

Description:

Hidamari is a Python-based video wallpaper application for Linux that supports multi-monitor setups, streaming videos, webpage wallpapers, and hardware accelerated decoding, providing an animated desktop background solution.

Arcane

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Arcane – web management UI for Docker

Website

Source Code

License: BSD-3-Clause license

Description:

Arcane is a modern, web-based Docker management interface built with Typescript and SvelteKit. It provides an intuitive UI for managing containers, images, networks, and volumes, offering a simple yet feature-rich experience for managing Docker environments.

Wasp

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Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Wasp is an open-source framework that enables rapid development of full-stack web applications using a declarative configuration language. It generates front-end, back-end, and deployment code in popular stacks like React, Node.js, and Prisma, simplifying the creation of complex web apps with minimal boilerplate.