Linux

How to install Slack for Linux on Ubuntu

Post last modified:June 19, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Slack is a team communication and collaboration platform by Slack Technologies for Web, Windows, Linux and MacOS. Using slack you can do create chat rooms, private groups, and direct messaging, voice and video calls, file sharing and more. It comes in free and paid plans. The free service comes with 10,000 of your team’s most recent messages, 10 integrations with other apps like Google Drive, Office 365 and many more and free 1:1 voice and video calls between teammates. You can check the complete pricing details here.

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How to install LeoCAD on Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:February 1, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

LeoCAD is a free and open source CAD software for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Using this LeoCAD CAD software you can create virtual LEGO models. It is released under open source GNU Public License. It completely supports and compatible with the LDraw Standard and related tools. It also supports reads and write of LDR and MPD files. It allows you to share and download models from the Internet. The current LDraw parts library in LeoCAD comes with more than 10,000 different parts.

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Tanks of Freedom Turn Based Strategy Game

Post last modified:January 30, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Tanks of Freedom is a free and open source indie turn based strategy game for Linux, Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD and Android. This game is based on Godot Engine and in isometric pixel art visuals. It is released under open source MIT license. You can create game maps using build-in map editor. You can fight yourself in campaign against AI or play with you friends.

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Obsidian Note Taking Knowledge Base Software

Post last modified:January 30, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Obsidian is a free Markdown editor for Linux, MacOS and Windows. You can use Obsidian as note taking and Knowledge Base application. It is free for personal use and no signup required. All data are stored in your local system in plain text Markdown files. But you can sync that files with Dropbox. You can extend its feature with plugins. It supports Git versioning, Internal link, Graph view, Audio recorder, LaTeX math, Slides, Backlinks and word counts. It is still in beta stage and active development.

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Make Triangulated Illustrations from Photos with FOSStriangulator

Post last modified:January 28, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

FOSStriangulator is a free and open source triangulated illustrations maker for Linux and Windows. It is released under open source GNU General Public License. It is based on Concept Farm’s Image Triangulator code. Using this you can triangulate any image in this application. This is a simple and easy to use application. It is still in early days. You can save your triangulated image in pdf file format. The level of abstraction you get depends on the amount of points you plot on your image.

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Geeqie Lightweight Image Viewer

Post last modified:January 27, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Geeqie is a free and open source image viewer and image organizer for Linux, BSD, MacOS and Solaris. It is a fork of another popular image viewer GQview. You can view all image metadata and Exif/IPTC/XMP data from image. It also supports colour histograms and image tags, keywords and comments options. Some other useful features are OpenStreetMap map for GPS coordinates in image, Zoom, Thumbnails, caching, File grouping, Drag and drop, Collections, image rating, build-in duplicate finder.

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Video Trimmer Video Cutter Software

Post last modified:January 25, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Video Trimmer is a free and open source video cutting software for Linux. Using this you can cut and trim your videos.Just enter video start and end timestamps to cut the video. It never re-encoded the video during the trimming process. Because of this you will get high quality video. It uses ffmpeg and GStreamer and released under GPL-3.0-or-later license.

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Le Biniou Music Visualization and VJing Software

Post last modified:January 23, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Le Biniou is a free and open source sound visualization and VJing software for Linux and BSD. Using this you can produce various graphic effects, depending on a source input. You can use the audio from you system soundcard or you can use the recorded audio. It comes with integrated On Screen Display (OSD) and the news version also comes with a web interface. It is released under GPL-2.0+ license.

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NTag Audio File Tag Editor

Post last modified:January 22, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

NTag is a free and open source audio file tag editor for Linux and Windows. Using NTag you can view and edit tags in any audio files. It supports MP3, MP4,M4A, M4B, FLAC, OGG and WMA audio file formats. You can use ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MP4, ASF and Vorbis Comment tag formats to edit. Some other important features are batch editing, rename files based on the tag and Filter files by missing data.

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Cosmonium Free 3D Astronomy and Space Exploration Software

Post last modified:January 21, 2021
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Post author:Manikandan

Cosmonium is a free and open source 3D astronomy and space exploration software for Windows, Linux and MacOS. You can use this program to visit our solar system with all planets and their moons. You can also visit the neighboring stars, galaxy and the Universe.

It is also support Celestia addons. It is also provides HD and the UHD images via additional package download. It is written in python and and released under GPL-3.0 License. Some other similar type of applications are Winstars and Stellarium

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