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.

cuOpt

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Website

Source Code

License: TBA

Description:

GPU-accelerated solver for decision optimization, excelling in mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), linear programming (LP), and vehicle routing problems (VRPs). Designed to tackle large-scale problems with millions of variables and constraints, cuOpt enables near-real-time optimization, driving significant cost savings.

Nvidia Announced Open Sourcing cuOPT March 2025

Hetty

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Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Hetty is an HTTP toolkit for security research. It aims to become an open source alternative to commercial software like Burp Suite Pro, with powerful features tailored to the needs of the infosec and bug bounty community.

Theora

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Website

Source Code

License: BSD 3-Clause

Description:

Theora was Xiph.Org’s first publicly released video codec, intended for use within the Foundation’s Ogg multimedia streaming system. Theora is derived directly from On2’s VP3 codec, adds new features while allowing it a longer useful lifetime.