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.

Quitty

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Quitty

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Quitty is an all-in-one macOS utility for system maintenance, performance optimization, and storage management, offering real-time monitoring, automated cleaning, and advanced tools through a single, unified interface.

droiD64

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droiD64

Website

Source Code

License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

Description:

DroiD64 is a Java-based graphical file manager for Commodore 64 disk images (D64, D67, D71, D80, D81, D82, D88, T64, LNX). It supports disk and file operations, view hex, and integrates with emulators and OpenCBM. Cross-platform (Mac, Linux, Windows).

arcPaint64

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arcPaint64

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

arcPaint64 is a browser-based editor for Commodore 64 graphics, enabling bitmap art, sprites, animation and related assets within authentic C64 constraints. It includes overlay, project-based workflows, direct import/export formats, and a multicolor bitmap converter for faithful C64 artwork.