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.

Rose

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Rose

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Rose is an open-source automatic skin changer for League of Legends. It runs in the system tray, detects champion skin selections, and injects the chosen skin at game start using Pengu Loader, with modular JavaScript plugins for UI, internationalization, and party/sharing features.

Submarine

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Submarine

Website

Source Code

License: MIT

Description:

Submarine is a fast, free, open-source SSH and SFTP client for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. One window per server with terminal, SFTP, port forwarding, and folder mirror; end-to-end encrypted profile sync. Built with Rust + Tauri; MIT licensed.

VoxCPM2

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VoxCPM2

Website

Source Code

License: Apache-2.0

Description:

VoxCPM2 is an open-source tokenizer-free Text-to-Speech system enabling multilingual speech synthesis, voice design, and controllable voice cloning. Built on a diffusion autoregressive architecture, it delivers 48kHz studio-grade audio across 30 languages, with training, fine-tuning (SFT/LoRA), and production deployment options.

xleak

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xleak

Website

Source Code

License: MIT License

Description:

xleak is a fast terminal Excel viewer with an interactive TUI. It renders Excel sheets in the terminal with full-text search, formulas, lazy loading for large files, clipboard support, and export to CSV or JSON. Built with Rust and ratatui.

Watcher

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Watcher

Website

Source Code

License: AGPL-3.0

Description:

Watcher is an open-source Django and React platform for AI-powered cybersecurity threat intelligence and monitoring. It aggregates CVEs, ransomware data, CERT feeds, and data leaks, offers weekly summaries, connectors, and real-time alerts, and supports SOC workflows for threat hunting.

Aster Pebble And The Case Of Bad Bureaucracy

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Aster Pebble And The Case Of Bad Bureaucracy

Website

Source Code

License: AGPLv3 (Code)

Description:

A short and cozy point and click time loop mystery. Join Aster Pebble as she solves mysteries and helps those in need as she takes on her first adventure in a modern fantasy world. Overcome bureaucracy via direct action in this funny little adventure filled with intriguing oddball characters.

Threadbare

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Threadbare

Website

Source Code

License: MPL-2.0; CC-BY-SA-4.0

Description:

Threadbare is a story-driven, collaborative open-source game built with Godot. Players co-create a world by crafting stories, characters, quests, and lore as they rebuild a fractured realm. It is in pre-alpha and available via play.threadbare.game.