Parole media Player is a free and open source media player for Linux. Parole media player is a default media player for Xfce desktop system. It is simple and easy to use GStreamer based media player. Using this you can play your local system media audio and video files, CDs, DVDs and live streams. It supports video subtitles, playlists and you can also extent it’s feature via plugins.
Fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter and cd ripper for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, FreeBSD and Haiku. using Fre:ac you can convert files between MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, M4A, FLAC, WAV, AAC and Bonk formats. It also comes with the integrated CD ripper feature that supports CDDB and freedb online CD database for its tags. It supports multi-core CPUs, Unicode character and command line interface, playlists, cue sheets, chapters more than 40 UI languages support. it is released under the GNU General Public License.
During the Ubuntu Linux OS upgrade or update process, if your system powered off because of power failure or you shutdown the power due to the system unresponsiveness, then you will face problems like boot failure, blank screen and broken Ubuntu OS. In this tutorial we will see how to fix these type of problems during Ubuntu update. Using this method you can fix the broken update without losing your data and without reinstalling your OS.
Power on your system and in the Grub boot menu select Ubuntu, if it go to the Ubuntu login screen, then press (CTRL+ALT+F1). It will open tty1 (teletypewriters) virtual terminal console. If it will not work try (CTRL+ALT+F2), (CTRL+ALT+F3), (CTRL+ALT+F4), (CTRL+ALT+F5), (CTRL+ALT+F6) and (CTRL+ALT+F7). By default in Ubuntu linux OS, there are 7 ttys.
Transitions DJ is a free DJ Mixing software for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, chrome and web. Using this you can bring live DJing and mixtape production in your system. Some of the important features are direct sound cloud access and iTunes library access. You can also access files from your local system and crowd sourced database of song structure containing beats, bars, and phrases. Some other features are tempo synchronization and adjustment. Not only this you can also do Recording, cross fading, looping and cue points adjustments. It also comes with 3-band EQ with kill switches and you can zoom the wave forms and it is colored by sound frequency to easily identify.
MakeMKV is a free MKV video maker for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Using this you can convert your favorite videos from DVD and Blu-ray discs to MKV aka Matroska Video format. The conversion process is pretty fast and it preserves all all video and audio tracks, chapters information, track language and audio type like meta details in the video. It is easy to use MKV converter for your needs.
Leo Editor is a free integrated development environment, product information management and outliner for Linux and Windows. It is written in Python and source is available in github. Using this you can organize and study computer code easily. It supports plugins and using this you can extent its features. It fully supports Python scripting and outlines with IPython, Vim and Emacs. You can compose your scripts and programs from outlines using outline-oriented directives.
Hedgewars is a free open source turn-based strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and iOS. It is released under GNU General Public Licence version 2 licence. This game is simple, just control your hedgehogs and use available weapons and tools to attack the opponent hedgehogs. It comes with more than 57 weapons, single player and multiplayer mode, 24 single missions, randomly generated maps and training missions. In this turn-based strategy game, each turn is time limited. This game is really fun and addictive.
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium software for Linux, Mac OS, Windows and web. Using this you can see the realistic sky design in 3D system on your computer. It is released under open source GNU General Public License version 2. It comes with a catalogue of over 177 million stars and 1 million deep-sky objects. It also comes with images of nebulae, realistic Milky Way, atmosphere, sunrise and sunset. And complete set of our planets and their satellites with clear details. Some other features are plugin support, eclipse and supernovae and iridium flares simulation and lot more.
OpenTyrian is a free and open source port of the famous arcade style DOS game Tyrian. Tyrian is a vertical shooter game by Eclipse Software and published by Epic MegaGames. OpenTyrian is available for Android, , BlackBerry, Mac OS X, Linux and many more platforms. In this game you are playing as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot and your job in game is to fight Microsol and save the world. You can play this game in story mode, single player mode, two player mode and networked multiplayer mode.
Bomber is a free open source arcade type bombing game for Linux. It is released under GNU General Public License (GPL), Version 2 license. The game simple, just bomb on all the enemy buildings using bomber aircraft and destroy it. If you destroy all of it then you advance to the next level. It is a single player game with two build in games themes. It also comes with configurable shortcuts. Game levels are based on speed of the bomber plane and the height of the buildings. Its really simple fun and additive.
