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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.

Rampart

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Rampart

Website

Source Code

License: CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)

Description:

Rampart is a browser-based, local-first PII redaction library that uses an ONNX model and a deterministic recognizer to scrub personal data from user text before it leaves the browser, shipped as an npm package with local weights.

herdr

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herdr

Website

Source Code

License: AGPL-3.0-or-later (dual-licensed with commercial license)

Description:

Herdr is a terminal-based agent multiplexer that runs multiple agents in one terminal, with persistent sessions, panes, and workspaces. It supports detach/reattach, runs over SSH, and shows per-agent state (idle, working, done) in real time.

Infisical

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Infisical

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Infisical is an open-source security platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management, enabling centralized secrets across environments with rotation and auditing.

DarkMoon

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DarkMoon

Website

Source Code

License: GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Description:

DarkMoon is an open-source AI-powered autonomous penetration testing platform that orchestrates multi-agent security operations to automate vulnerability discovery and reporting across web, cloud, AD and Kubernetes environments.