Linux

Leikr Game System for Making Games

Post last modified:July 17, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Leikr is a free and open source video game making system for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is written in Java using the Mini2DX game framework and released under Apache License 2.0. Using Leikr you can make video games with Groovy programming language. Here you can create up to 128 sprites in the sizes of 8×8, 16×16, 32×32 and even 64×64. It also support external artwork in png, jpg or bmp file formats and wav, mp3 or ogg files to play sfx and music.

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Ghidra Open Source Software Reverse Engineering Suite

Post last modified:July 16, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Ghidra is a free and open source software reverse engineering suite of tools for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is developed by National Security Agency Research Directorate and released under open source Apache License 2.0. Using Ghidra you can analyze compiled software code and disassembly, assembly, decompilation, graphing, and scripting. You can also extent its features via the extension components.

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How to Install All Multimedia Codecs in Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:July 15, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

If your recently installed Ubuntu Linux doesn’t play most video and files, then you need to install ubuntu restricted extras package. The ubuntu restricted extras is a software package that contains software like flash plugin, unrar, gstreamer, mp4, codecs for Chromium , libavcodec and more. These are proprietary software packages and Ubuntu doesn’t install by default during the OS installation process. But you can install these softwares in Ubuntu Linux using below commands. Using this you can play most video and Audio files in your system. You can also install this on all Ubuntu based distro.

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Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor Software

Post last modified:December 1, 2022
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Post author:Manikandan

Klavaro is a free and open source touch typing tutor application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Using Klavaro you can learn and improve your typing easily. You can customize the typing keyboard layouts and edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts. It comes with basic course for initial typing training and other available courses are adaptability, speed and fluidity. It also provides charts about your learning process. It supports multi-keyboard, multi-language, internet contest and more.

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KTorrent BitTorrent Download Manager Application

Post last modified:July 13, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

KTorrent is a free and open source BitTorrent software for Linux. KTorrent is a powerful torrent client from KDE team but you can use in any desktop environment. Using this you can download files using the BitTorrent protocol. It comes with speed limits support, previewing video and audio files, ban peers with an additional IP Filter, UDP tracker support, protocol encryption and webseeds support. You can create trackerless torrents and Connect through a proxy. it also comes with tracker authentication support.

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Bulky Bulk File Renamer Tool for Linux

Post last modified:July 8, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Bulky is a free and open source bulk file and directory rename application for Linux from Linux Mint team. It is based on Python and released under GNU General Public License v3. Using this bulky renamer application you can find and replace file and directory names with regular expression support. You can also remove letters and insert new text, change filename to title case, upper case, lower case and first character uppercase. It also comes with preview the changes support.

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ParaView Data Analysis and Visualization Application

Post last modified:July 7, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

ParaView is a free and open source data analysis and visualization software for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Using this application you can build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques and it also supports the data exploration in 3D or programmatically. You can use ParaView in climate research, CFD simulations, cloud-resolving simulation, PHASTA and ParaView catalyst and shaped charge jet penetration. It is released under BSD-3-Clause license.

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How To Find All Installed Fonts In Ubuntu Linux via Terminal

Post last modified:July 5, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

In your Linux system you can easily find all installed fonts via command-line based terminal application and you don’t need any third party GUI applications for that. In this article we are going to use fc-list command to lists all installed fonts and styles using fontconfig tool.

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Mandelbulber 3D Fractals Generator

Post last modified:July 2, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Mandelbulber is a free and open source 3D fractals generator for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0. Using this application you can view trigonometric, hyper-complex, Mandelbox, IFS, and many other 3D fractals.You can render all outputs with a great palette of customizable materials to create stunning images and videos. It comes with multi GPU support, complex 3D raymarching, distributed network rendering, Key-frame animation, material management, texture mapping and command line support.

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Akira UI UX Design Tool for Web and Graphic Designers

Post last modified:July 1, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Akira is a free and open source UI and UX Design application for Linux and Windows. It is written in Vala and GTK and released under GNU General Public License v3.0. It is useful tool for web designers and graphic designers. It is still under active development and in alpha stage. But you can test this in your system.

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