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.

ScrcpyGUI

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ScrcpyGUI

Website

Source Code

License: MIT License

Description:

ScrcpyGUI is a modern, high-performance GUI for scrcpy, rebuilt with Tauri, React, and Rust. It provides features like themes, automated binary updates, HID keyboard/mouse input, multiple renderers, wireless pairing, and pro camera mode, turning Android devices into a desktop-like control tool.

KernelScript

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KernelScript

Website

Source Code

License: Apache-2.0

Description:

KernelScript is a beta, domain-specific language for eBPF-centric kernel development. It unifies eBPF, userspace, and kernel modules in one source, enabling multi-target compilation and automated orchestration of programs across XDP, TC, and perf events.

Iosevka

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Iosevka

Website

Source Code

License: OFL-1.1

Description:

Iosevka is an open-source monospace font family combining sans-serif, slab-serif, and quasi-proportional designs for coding, terminals, and technical documents. It offers multiple subfamilies with many weights, widths, and ligatures for versatile typography.

Scrcpy-GUI

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Scrcpy-GUI

Website

Source Code

License: AGPL-3.0

Description:

A modern, cross‑platform graphical user interface for scrcpy that converts the command-line tool into an intuitive GUI. Built with Flutter, it adds visual command building, multi-device management, wireless setup, and real-time previews, enabling easy Android screen mirroring and control on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

scrcpy

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scrcpy

Website

Source Code

License: Apache-2.0

Description:

scrcpy is a lightweight, high-performance utility that mirrors Android devices on your computer and enables control via keyboard and mouse. It works over USB or TCP/IP, requires no root, and no app on the device. Compatible with Linux, Windows, and macOS; aims for minimal latency and footprint.