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.

lazyssh

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lazyssh

Website

Source Code

License: Apache-2.0

Description:

A terminal-based SSH manager (TUI) built in Go to manage servers from the terminal, loading servers from ~/.ssh/config, with features to connect, manage, and transfer files between local and remote servers.

vokoscreenNG

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vokoscreenNG

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-2.0

Description:

vokoscreenNG is a multilingual screencast tool for Linux that records the screen, a region, or a window. It supports audio from multiple sources, built-in camera capture, and helper features like systray, countdown, timer, and Showclick to produce polished screencasts.

ntopng

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ntopng

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0

Description:

ntopng is a web-based network traffic monitoring and flow analysis tool released under GPLv3, providing real-time visibility and a web UI for data from NetFlow/sFlow, with APIs.

Aircrack-ng

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Aircrack-ng

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-2.0

Description:

Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of WiFi security auditing tools focused on monitoring, attacking, testing, and cracking WPA/WEP. It consists of command-line utilities intended for scripting and runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, BSDs, and more.

espeak-ng

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espeak-ng

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0-or-later

Description:

eSpeak NG is an open source text-to-speech synthesizer that supports more than 100 languages and accents. It uses formant synthesis for compact size and provides a command-line tool, a shared library, and SAPI5 support; available on Linux, Windows, and Android.

GoSheet

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GoSheet

Website

Source Code

License: MIT License

Description:

GoSheet is a fast, terminal-based spreadsheet editor written in Go, featuring 104 built-in functions, multi-sheet workbooks, and support for .gsheet, JSON, Excel, CSV, TXT formats; includes formula engine, data validation, undo/redo, and Excel import/export.