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.

Ghost Commander

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Ghost Commander

Website

Source Code

License: GPL v3

Description:

Ghost Commander is a two-panel Android file manager inspired by Norton Commander, offering local and network file operations, FTP, SMB, zip handling, and customizable UI for efficient file management.

Coreutils for Windows

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Coreutils for Windows

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Unix-style core utilities for Windows. Provides the same commands and pipelines you use on Linux/macOS/WSL, natively on Windows. This Microsoft-maintained build bundles coreutils with related tools and includes an installer and packaging.

nbd-vram

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nbd-vram

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Use your NVIDIA GPU’s VRAM as swap space on Linux. Built for laptops with soldered memory, it allocates VRAM via the CUDA driver API and serves it as a swap device over NBD, avoiding kernel modules. Includes installation/scripts and power-management features.