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 Eye

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Ghost Eye

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0

Description:

Ghost Eye is an information-gathering, footprinting, scanner and recon tool written in Python 3. It collects DNS, whois, port scans, HTTP headers, and more to provide a target overview. Runs on Linux with Python 3.

FavBox

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FavBox

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

FavBox is a local-first, open-source browser extension that enhances bookmark management with tagging, advanced search, and notes. It runs offline using IndexedDB storage, tracks bookmarks locally, and avoids cloud data sharing. It offers multiple display modes and themes, highlights broken or duplicate items, and keeps tags in the title for cross-device sync.

MeshSense

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MeshSense

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0

Description:

MeshSense is an open-source app that connects to Meshtastic nodes via Bluetooth or WiFi and continuously displays network health data, including nodes, signal reports, and traces.

VoidAuth

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VoidAuth

Website

Source Code

License: AGPL-3.0

Description:

VoidAuth is an open-source SSO and user-management provider for self-hosted apps. It offers OpenID Connect, ForwardAuth proxy support, LDAP directory services, user and groups management, invitations, self-registration, MFA, passkeys, and branding customization, using PostgreSQL or SQLite.