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.

Playnite

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Playnite

Website

Source Code

License: MIT License

Description:

Playnite is an open source video game library manager that unifies games from multiple sources (Steam, Epic, GOG, Origin, Battle.net, and more) with emulation support, extensibility, themes, and offline local library data.

OpenScreen

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OpenScreen

Website

Source Code

License: MIT License

Description:

OpenScreen is a free, open-source tool for creating product demos and walkthroughs. It records screen activity with optional webcam, audio, zooms, annotations, and post-processing, offering templates and export options. MIT-licensed and community-driven as an alternative to Screen Studio.

MOSS-TTS-Nano

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MOSS-TTS-Nano

Website

Source Code

License: Apache-2.0 license

Description:

MOSS-TTS-Nano is an open-source multilingual tiny speech generation model from MOSI.AI and the OpenMOSS team. With only 0.1B parameters, it is designed for realtime speech generation, can run directly on CPU without a GPU, and keeps the deployment stack simple enough for local demos, web serving, and lightweight product integration.

FreeMoCap

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FreeMoCap

Website

Source Code

License: AGPL-3.0

Description:

FreeMoCap is a free, open-source markerless motion capture system that runs on ordinary devices. It uses multiple cameras to capture full-body movement, processes data locally, and exports CSV, FBX, and Blender formats. Built for researchers, artists, and educators, it emphasizes accessibility, privacy, and a universal design.