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.

Augustus

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Augustus

Website

Source Code

License: AGPL-3.0

Description:

Augustus is an open-source re-implementation of Caesar III, forked from Julius, with UI and gameplay enhancements. It loads Caesar 3 and Julius saves, adds features like roadblocks and global labor pool, and ships multi-platform builds. Save files from Augustus are not compatible with vanilla Caesar III or Julius.

Winpodx

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Winpodx

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Winpodx is a Linux-native Windows app platform that runs Windows apps in a Linux windowed environment using FreeRDP RemoteApp, with per-app icon and WM_CLASS, auto-discovery of host apps, and multi-backend support (Podman, Docker, libvirt) for a seamless Windows-on-Linux experience.

CrossMacro

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CrossMacro

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0-only

Description:

CrossMacro is a cross-platform mouse and keyboard macro recorder and player with a macro editor, text expansion, shortcuts, and scheduling; supports Linux Wayland/X11, Windows, and macOS.

Snippet Expander

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Snippet Expander

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Snippet Expander is a lightweight Linux desktop utility to save text snippets and auto-expand them by abbreviations. It provides a GUI, search, and a CLI for managing snippets and settings, with placeholders for date/time, clipboard, and more.