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.

Winhance

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Winhance

Website

Source Code

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Description:

Winhance is an open-source Windows enhancement utility that debloats, optimizes, and customizes Windows 10/11. It provides software/apps management, performance and privacy tweaks, theme customization, and configuration export/import, with installer and portable versions.

Async QUIC and HTTP/3 made easy: tokio-quiche is now open-source

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Async QUIC and HTTP/3 made easy: tokio-quiche is now open-source

Website

Source Code

License: BSD-2-Clause license

Description:

tokio-quiche is an asynchronous QUIC library built on quiche and the Tokio runtime, designed to simplify HTTP/3 development by providing sans-io primitives and an actor-based IO loop for building custom HTTP/3 clients and servers.

OpenFGA

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OpenFGA

Website

Source Code

License: Apache-2.0

Description:

OpenFGA is a high-performance, flexible authorization/permission engine inspired by Google Zanzibar. It helps developers model and enforce fine-grained access control in applications, offering HTTP and gRPC APIs, pluggable storage backends, and language SDKs. It’s adopted in production by Auth0 FGA, Grafana, Canonical, Docker, and others.

far2l

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far2l

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-2.0

Description:

far2l is a Linux port of FAR Manager v2, enabling Far2l to run FAR plugins on Linux, macOS, and BSD. It offers GUI and terminal backends, supports NetRocks and other plugins, and includes comprehensive build instructions and packaging options.