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KiCad PCB Design and Schematic Capture Software – Install KiCad EDA on Ubuntu

Post last modified:January 24, 2021
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

KiCad is a free and open source electronics design automation (EDA) application for Linux, MacOS and Linux. Using KiCad you can create professional PCB layouts and schematics for electronic circuits. You can divide large PCB designs into hierarchical subsheets and export your design to PDF, SVG, HPGL, Postscript file formats. It comes with build-in electrical rules check (ERC) to automatically verify the schematic connections and 3D PCB Viewer.

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Uno Calculator – Install Windows Calculator on Ubuntu

Post last modified:November 6, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Uno Calculator is a free and open source Calculator software based on the open source pre-installed Windows 10 Calculator application. Uno Calculator using the Uno Platform to make the Windows 10 Calculator application to work on Linux, Android, iOS, macOS and Web. It is released under Apache-2.0 license. This calculator app comes with standard, scientific, and programmer functionality. You can also converters between various units of measurement and currencies using this app.

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Quod Libet Audio Player and Tag Editor – Install Quod Libet on Ubuntu

Post last modified:April 25, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Quod Libet is a free and open source audio player, tag editor and music management software for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is based on GTK and python and released under GNU General Public License v2.0.It uses the popular Mutagen…

How to install Free Download Manager for Linux on Ubuntu

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

Free Download Manager FDM is a free download accelerator and manager application for Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android. Using FDM you can download BitTorrent files, Preview audio and video files before download, convert video and audio file formats after download, download files in high speed, resuming your broken downloads from where it was interrupted and schedule the downloads. It comes with traffic usage modes and multi language support and more.

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View Edit and Manage your Photo with XnView MP – Install XnView MP on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 22, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

XnView MP is a free photo viewer, image management, image resizer application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. You can use this application as freeware for private, educational and non-profit use but you need to buy a license for commercial use. It supports more than 500 image formats including PEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2. The XnView photo viewer comes with Thumbnail, Full Screen and FilmStrip View, SlideShow with FX support and Image Compare features.

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How to Install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:December 2, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Microsoft announced that Edge browser is now available for download on Linux. Currently it is available in the stable, beta and dev channel version of the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. It is now supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE Linux…

Scribus Desktop Publishing DTP Application – Install Scribus on Ubuntu

Post last modified:January 4, 2024
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Scribus is a free and open-source desktop publishing software available for Windows, MacOS, BDS, and Linux. Using this tool, you can create beautiful page layouts for magazines, books, and more. It utilizes an XML-based file format to store your data.…

How to install Trelby Screenwriting Program on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 17, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Trelby is a free and open source screenwriting application for Linux and Windows. Using this tool you can write beautiful screenplay for movie, drama, stage shows and web series. It comes with powerful screenplay editor with format correction and pagination,…

Beautiful Terminal Resource Monitor – How to install BpyTOP on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 16, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Bpytop is a free and open source command-line based resource monitor for Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD. Using this you can monitor your system and view the usage and stats of your processor, disks, memory, network and processes. It is actually a Python port of popular resource monitor bashtop. It comes with easy to use menu, responsive keys selection and full mouse support. You can filter the processes and you can also use multiple filters in the same time. You can also send SIGTERM, SIGKILL and SIGINT to the process. It is released under open source Apache License 2.0 license and based on python. It comes with themes support and auto scaling graph for network usage.

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How to Get Linux OS Name Version and Kernel Details

Post last modified:October 15, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

You can easily get your system distribution name, version and Kernel details in linux. There are several ways, options and GUI tools available. But you can also view these details without any third party GUI tools in Linux. You can easily view these details in your command line terminal application.This article explains how to get and find the Linux OS distribution name, version and Kernel details in command line method using the terminal application. It will help to troubleshoot some others or yours system if you don’t have the GUI access. For this tutorial we are using Ubuntu.

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