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.

Workshop

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Workshop

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0

Description:

Workshops are secure, fast, and composable development environments that come agent-ready. Workshop lets you define environments with YAML, enabling reproducible SDK-based setups and workflow-driven development.

OpenJPH

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OpenJPH

Website

Source Code

License: BSD-2-Clause

Description:

OpenJPH is an open-source high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (HTJ2K) codec implementation (C++). It provides a BSD-2-Clause licensed reference for HTJ2K/JPH with Docker, OSS-Fuzz integration, and documentation.

Lyrie.ai

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Lyrie.ai

Website

Source Code

License: MIT License

Description:

Lyrie.ai is an autonomous cybersecurity agent that conducts pentests, red-teams LLM endpoints, scans code and live URLs, and uses the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP) for cryptographic agent identity.

Cheat Engine

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Cheat Engine

Website

Source Code

License:

Description:

Cheat Engine is a development environment focused on modding games and applications. It provides memory scanning, debugging, and tooling to modify runtime data. The project is open-source, with a large community and a GitHub repository.

Retro-Go

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Retro-Go

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-2.0

Description:

Retro-Go is firmware to run retro games on ESP32-based devices (ODROID-GO, MRGC-G32) featuring a launcher and multiple optimized emulation apps, with WiFi file manager, in-game menu, theming, and lightweight ROM loading to maximize performance and battery life.