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OnlyOffice – Free Open Source Alternative for Microsoft Office – How to install OnlyOffice Desktop Editors on Ubuntu

Post last modified:May 20, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

OnlyOffice Desktop Editors is free open source office suite for Linux, Windows and macOS. It includes ONLYOFFICE Document Editor, ONLYOFFICE Spreadsheet Editor and ONLYOFFICE Presentation Editor. Using ONLYOFFICE Document Editor, Presentation Editor and Presentation Editor you can create, edit, save and export text documents, spreadsheets and presentation slides. It is fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx.

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LOVE 2D Game Framework for Lua

Post last modified:May 16, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

LÖVE is a free and open source 2D games framework for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS. Using LOVE you can make 2D games in Lua high level programming language. It is released under the liberal zlib/libpng license. You can download and install Love from below link.

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MoonPlayer Video Player

Post last modified:May 14, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

MoonPlayer is a free and open source video player application for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Using MoonPlayer you can play your local videos, online video from Youtube, Iqiyi and more websites. You can also download videos from online using this media player. It is based on MPV player and also extend it’s feature via plugins. It is released under GPL version 3 or later.

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Customize GDM Login Screen in Linux

Post last modified:May 13, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

GDM (GNOME Display Manager) is a application that manages your graphical user logins and display servers in your Linux system. Ubuntu also comes with GDM. Now you can change all GDM setting easily with Login Manager Settings application. It is written in python and released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

Using this app you can change login screen background, shell, icon, cursor, fonts, Top Bar clock and power settings, sound, mouse and touch pad setting, display, logo, welcome message and more.

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Share Files with each other Securely with Warp

Post last modified:May 12, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Warp is a free and open source encrypted file transfer application for Linux. Using Warp you can send files between multiple devices. It also support Magic Wormhole command line client. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0. Both the sender and receiver need to install warp on their devices.

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WoeUSB-ng Create Windows USB Installer from Windows ISO or DVD in Linux

Post last modified:May 9, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

WoeUSB-ng is a free and open source Windows USB installer creator for Linux. Using WoeUSB-ng you can create your own USB pendrive Windows installer from DVD or an ISO image file. Using this Windows USB installer you can easily install Windows OS in your computer. Currently it supports Windows Vista, Windows 7, Window 8.x, Windows 10 and Legacy/MBR-style/IBM PC and Native UEFI bootmode. It comes with command-line woeusb and graphic version woeusbgui. this application is a rewrite of original WoeUSB. It is written in Python and released under GNU General Public License v3.0.

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Manage Your Bibliography with Citations App

Post last modified:May 7, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Citations is a free and open source Bibliography application for Linux. Using Citations, you can create and manage your bibliographies in a BibTeX format. It comes with article, book, misc, In proceedings, unpublished, online, booklet, conference, in book, In collection, manual, master thesis, PhD thesis, proceeding and tech report citation types. It comes with plain, markdown and Latex support. you can directly search the citations in google scholar and arXiv. It is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

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Frets on Fire Musical Game

Post last modified:May 6, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Frets on Fire is a free and open source musical game for Windows, MacOS and Linux. In this game you need to play the guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible. It is written in the Python and released under GNU General Public License version 2.0. It comes with inverted keyboard game play style and guitar controllers support and song editor for making your own tunes.

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Violin Music Player

Post last modified:May 3, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Violin is a free and open source lightweight and minimal music player for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It supports some command file formats like mp3, flac, mp4, wav and ogg. It comes with basic media keys like skip, previous, play and pause, volume slider, shuffle files, endless repeat, search song by name and sorting alphabetically by name, album, artist. It is released under MIT License.

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CoBang QR Code Scanner for Linux

Post last modified:April 30, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

CoBang is a free and open source QR code and barcode scanner application for Linux. Using CoBang you can scan barcode, QR code from your webcam and any image file from your system, local or remote. It supports Wayland display manager. It is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 and written in Python.

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