Welcome Friend!

by

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.

lay-public

by
lay-public

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

A local RU/EN keyboard layout rescue tool for Linux (GNOME, KDE, Wayland, and X11). It fixes text typed in the wrong layout using a local, privacy-conscious pipeline (no cloud or model). Includes lay-daemon, GNOME extension, and KDE tray to provide manual and automatic corrections.

OmniOS Community Edition

by


OmniOS Community Edition

Website

Source Code

License:

Description:

OmniOS Community Edition is an open-source illumos-based enterprise server OS featuring ZFS, bhyve and Crossbow networking, DTrace, SMF, Linux zone support, and lightweight virtualization. It emphasizes a minimal, feature-focused platform with rapid deployment and open development on GitHub.

Dropbear SSH

by


Dropbear SSH

Website

Source Code

License: Open Source – multiple licenses including BSD-style and related licenses (as per LICENSE file)

Description:

A compact SSH server and client designed for embedded systems and security, providing lightweight SSH functionality.

Repixture

by
Repixture

Website

Source Code

License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0) or later

Description:

Repixture is a simple sandbox survival game focusing on nature, survival, and primitive technologies in a procedurally generated world. Explore, craft, build, farm, trade, and customize at your own pace; there is no fixed goal.