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.

U1 Print Hub

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U1 Print Hub

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

A hub that centralizes G-code files for Snapmaker U1 printers, merging the hub library with each printer’s storage, offering color management, live status, queueing, cross-printer transfers, and remote access via secured tunnels.

UniGetUI

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UniGetUI

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

UniGetUI is a Windows-first GUI that aggregates multiple package managers (WinGet, Scoop, Chocolatey, Homebrew, APT, and more) into a single interface for discovering, installing, updating, and uninstalling software across platforms.

JankyBorders

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JankyBorders

Website

Source Code

License: GPL-3.0

Description:

JankyBorders is a lightweight macOS 14+ utility that adds colored borders to the active window, highlighting focus without using accessibility APIs. It supports yabai, AeroSpace, and Homebrew deployment.

Tracy Profiler

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Tracy Profiler

Website

Source Code

License: BSD-3-Clause

Description:

Tracy Profiler is a real-time, nanosecond-resolution profiler for games and other applications. It supports CPU and GPU profiling, remote telemetry, and hybrid frame and sampling captures, with bindings for C++, Lua, Python, and more, plus live visualization via an interactive demo.