Discord is a all purpose communication and chat application for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and in web browsers. Using this you can send text, image and communicate via video and audio channels. You just need a email to create…
GtkHash is a free and open source message digest or checksums application for Linux and windows. Using this tool you can compute the message digest or checksums in your system. It is released under open source GNU General Public License version 2 License. It supports MD5, SHA1, SHA2 (SHA256/SHA512), SHA3 and BLAKE2 hash functions. It is a best GUI alternative to md5sum command-line application. You can verify checksum files from sfv and sha256sum. Some other important features are Keyed hashing (HMAC), parallel hash calculation and File manager integration. It added the hast function to Caja, Nautilus, Nemo, Peony and Thunar file managers. It also supports remote file access using GIO/GVfs.
In Ubuntu or any Ubuntu linux based system you can list all installed application packages in your terminal command line application easily without any third party graphical user interface softwares. Lots of options are available in cli mode also. just try and use the below commands to list all softwares in Ubuntu and find the difference. If you know any other option, please mention in below comment form.
Sometimes in WSL Windows Subsystem for Linux, after updating Ubuntu you will get “gpg: can’t connect to the agent: IPC connect call failed” error when you try to add the key using the sudo apt-key add. You can easily solve this. This is because of a bug in Windows Subsystem for Linux. Follow the below steps to solve this error. You can try to add the key manually to solve this problem.
You don’t need to use any GUI applications to show all your users on your system . You can do it via your terminal command-line application. You can list all system generated and human created or normal Linux users via the below commands. Lots of options are available. Just try all commands in your terminal and find the difference. If any other options available please mention in comments.
Normally in terminal when you run a command, it prints and shows the command output directly in the terminal. If you want to store that output in a external text file, then you can also do it in bash based terminals. Ex:Ubuntu. It redirect the output and saves in a text file. It will help to view the output at later. In this article we will see the all available methods to print the terminal output to a file.
In Ubuntu you can easily view the total size of a directory or folder from the terminal command line tool. And the good part is you don’t need any fancy GUI apps for this. You can view this via the du command. du is the short form of disk usage. In this article we will see how to find the size of a particular folder and all folders on your system from your terminal application.
OCRmyPDF is a free and open source OCR (Optical character recognition) application for Linux. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 and written in python. It adds an OCR text layer to your scanned PDF files and it allows you to search the pdf text and you can also copy paste the text. Using OCRmyPDF you can convert scanned pdf to a text searchable pdf. Some of its features are Keeping the exact resolution original images in output and validates input and output pdf files. It Uses Tesseract OCR engine to recognize the pdf languages. It support more than 100 languages.
Mindustry is a free and open source sandbox factory tower defense game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 and written in Java. In this game you need to create supply chains of conveyor belts to feed ammo into your turrets, produce materials for building, and defend your buildings from enemies. It supports multiplayer and large-scale PvP unit battles. This game comes with more than 24 maps and a build-in map editor to create maps.
Ngraph is a free and open source graph application for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is released under GNU General Public License v2.0 license. Using this application you can create beautiful scientific 2 dimensional graphs for your studies and other works. It is very useful application for researchers and engineers. You can export the graphs in PostScript, SVG, PNG or PDF format. It comes with frame, section and cross graph supports.
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