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.

NUXTOR

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NUXTOR

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

NUXTOR is a framework to build tiny desktop apps with Nuxt 4 and Tauri, powered by NuxtUI 4. It enables full Nuxt features in desktop/mobile apps, including shell commands, OS notifications, system information, persistent storage, and a system tray.

Open Code Review

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Open Code Review

Website

Source Code

License: Apache-2.0

Description:

Open Code Review is an AI-powered code review CLI tool from Alibaba. It reads Git diffs, sends changed files to a configurable LLM via an agent with tool-use capabilities, and generates precise, line-level review comments. It combines deterministic pipelines with AI for scalable, high-quality code reviews.

Noctalia

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Noctalia

Website

Source Code

License: MIT License

Description:

Noctalia is a native Wayland desktop shell for Linux, providing a polished, configurable UI built directly on the compositor. It offers bars, dock, launcher, notifications, wallpaper, widgets, and IPC via TOML configuration. It aims to replace multiple separate tools with a single cohesive shell across Hyprland, Sway, and other Wayland compositors.

Rune

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Rune

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0-or-later

Description:

Rune is a fast, GPU-accelerated IDE and terminal multiplexer with a peer-to-peer network, native rendering, built-in language tools, and extensible plugins.

Mojo

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Mojo

Website

Source Code

License: Apache License 2.0

Description:

Mojo is a systems programming language focused on performance and GPU programming, interoperable with Python, with a focus on generating portable, high-performance code.

pompelmi

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pompelmi

Website

Source Code

License: ISC

Description:

pompelmi is a minimal Node.js library wrapping ClamAV scanning; provides a single scan() function and typed verdicts; supports local clamscan or remote clamd; zero runtime dependencies; TS types; framework integrations.