The best OpenSource Applications for Linux

I hope you aware that Linux is the most secured Operating System in the world so far and it is available totally FREE of cost.

I listed below are the best OpenSource applications available for Linux and it helps to make linux more easier to people who came into Linux environment.

Eventhough Linux is widely spread across the world but still many of its users (including me) find difficult to find out good applications to use.

The majority of these applications can be installed through apt-get or synaptic methods, however I have given the web address of those applications for more informations such as system requirements, etc.

I hope you enjoying your stay here.

Graphic Designing


Gimp

Ever feel the cost of Adobe Photoshop just bites your hand? Ever feel an alternative to Adobe Photoshop would be nice if it is come FREE of cost?

Then, take a breath. GIMP is here.

GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package.


Introduction to GIMP

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GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Features and Capabilities

This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features. You can also have a look at the illustrated features overview.

• Painting
  
  
  
  • Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
  • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
  • Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
  • Supports custom brushes and patterns
  
  
• System
  
  
  
  • Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
  • Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
  
  
• Advanced Manipulation
  
  
  
  • Full alpha channel support
  • Layers and channels
  • Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
  • Editable text layers
  • Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
  • Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
  • Foreground extraction tool
  • Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
  • Transformable paths, transformable selections.
  • Quickmask to paint a selection.

• Animation
  
  
  
  • Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
  • MNG support
  • Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  
  
• File Handling
  
  
  
  • File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
  • Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
  • SVG path import/export
  
  
• Much, much more!

Miro - an amazing video player

Finally, a FREE video player; can play any type of videos available in the market.





Could you believe this...

• Its Free.
• It can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.\264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format.
• A beautiful, completely redesigned interface makes using Miro easier than ever. 
• Miro will create a thumbnail for any video that doesn't have one.
• It can download individual BitTorrent files and torrents that are in feeds. When a video torrent is downloaded it will be in your channel and library ready to watch, just like any other video download.
• Miro now lets you watch any video in a separate window, so you can browse and download while you watch. You can play videos in a separate window individually or set a preference to always play videos in a separate window. 
• Simply tell Miro to reserve a certain amount of space on your hard drive and it will stop downloading new videos when it reaches that limit.
• A menu item lets you paste in individual video URLs to start downloads. Miro automatically grabs your last copied URL.  
• Miro works beautifully on all three major operating systems. We make this effort because a new model for internet television has to be accessible to everyone. 
•   As important as open source code, Miro's embrace of open standards helps encourage innovation and competition. Unlike proprietary video delivery systems, Miro works like the internet itself, utilizing open standards like RSS, HTTP, HTML/CSS, and BitTorrent. 
• Miro can search and download from the biggest video sites including YouTube, Yahoo!, Google Video, Blip, and more.

I hope i have put enough points to impress you.

Here are some screenshots for you.

 

Download here

Critical Care - a FREE racing game

Mmmmmm in this post, I just want to introduce another Open Source game "Critical Care".


Description

Critical Care is an ambulance driving game, written in less than 3 months, for CPSC 585 (Game Programming) at the University of Calgary. Its main features include:

• Player can select from multiple vehicles
• Pedestrians
• NPC traffic
• Enemy ambulances controlled by AI

Welcome to the 22nd century, where the costs of healthcare have skyrocketed to the point where hospitals have been forced to privatize ambulance services and individual ambulances have been forced to compete for the patronage of their unforunate clients. You are one of those drivers!! Your goal is to accumulate wealth at the expense of others' suffering by picking up patients scattered around the city and delivering them to the nearest hospital as quickly as possible.

OpenSource GAMES - Secret Maryo Chronicles

I really wonder why people die for such COSTLY games? Costly = Quality ? No...Never.

Probably you were heard or frustrated about some free games. But time has changed. Let yourself into a WORLD OF OPENSOURCE.

Yes...its absolutely FREE and of course much interesting compare to some costly games.

I here introduce some ultimate collection of Games, of course FREE games to you.

First, Secret Maryo Chronicles.

Secret Maryo Chronicles is an Open Source two-dimensional platform game with a design similar to classic computer games. SMC has computer support to a great degree by using an accelerated Open Graphics Library for the best possible graphic design and stock performance.

Features

In-Game Editor

Activated with the F8 key in the game. You can insert any graphic file as a background or sprite in the game. All graphics like hedges and ground sprites are included. You can insert enemies, change the player start position, insert special objects like a powerup box, and create half-massive Sprites which the Player can jump through, but can not fall through. For a more detailed explanation see the Editor tutorial.

Version    Additional Feature

0.98.1    - Global level effects.
0.99.2    - Camera limits and multiple Background Images.
0.99.4    - Falling Platforms and Invisible/Empty Boxes.
0.99.5    - Ghost Blocks.
0.99.7    - Massive Moving Platforms.
1.0    - Text Boxes and Warp entries.
1.2    - Fixed horizontal level scrolling and random powerup bonus box.
1.5    - Particle Emitter and Ambient Sounds.

Levels Many Levels

Each level ends with a Gate or Pipe, press up to enter the next level or the direction key into the pipe.

Maryo Stages Multiple Maryo Stages

Includes Small, Normal, Fire, Snow, Star and Ghost Maryo. Advance to the next stage by getting Mushrooms, Fireplants and Stars but beware the Poison Mushroom. The powerup items can be obtained by jumping into question mark boxes.

Overworld Multiple Overworlds

Get an aerial perspective between levels, just like the World Map in Super Mario World.

Music Great Sound and Music

High quality Ogg music and sound for a great game feeling.


Save and Load Save and Load

Save anytime from the game menu. Then load whenever you want.

Lives Get Extra Lives

By getting 100 coins or finding the Green Mushrooms and secret Moons.

Requirements

Linux or Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista

Minimum Minimum:

Processor: 500 MHz
Video Card: 64 MB OpenGL Compatible 3D Accelerated Graphics Card
RAM: 256MB
800x600 Screen Resolution
16 Bit Color Display
Keyboard + Mouse
Recommended Recommended:

Processor: 1 GHz
Video Card: 128 MB OpenGL Compatible 3D Accelerated Graphics Card
RAM: 512MB
Sound Card
1024x768 Screen Resolution
24 Bit True Color Display
Joypad

 Download here

Cenon - Graphics Software with Style

Cenon is a graphical tool of a special kind. Build upon a modular graphical core, Cenon offers a wide variety of possibilities and applications. The feature-rich Cenon core is free software, available with full source codes, and at home on many computer platforms.

Cenon is being developed with love. The clean user interface on Apple, Linux and other systems (using GNUstep) creates a pleasant user experience.

Cenon Features

Import

    * Import of DXF, HPGL, PostScript (PS and EPS), Adobe Illustrator 3, Gerber, PDF, Sieb&Meyer, Wessel, Excellon
    * Import of images (TIFF, GIF, JPG etc.)
    * Import of Type-1 Fonts
    * option: automatic distribution of colors to layers
    * option: automatic joining of paths
    * Import of text lists in ASCII format for mass production

Graphic- and Editing functions

    * Lines, Arcs, Rectangles, Bezier curves, etc.
    * complex paths
    * object manipulations like join, punch etc.
    * Rich Text (vector fonts, tabulators, rotation, ...)
    * Text along paths
    * Graphic Inspector
    * comfortable layer (page) management
    * alignment of graphic objects
    * multiple Undo and Redo

DTP

    * Exposing of images (Clipping)
    * Color shading (Graduate, Radial, Axial)
    * Thumbnail images
    * Color separation

Output

    * Export of DXF, HPGL, PostScript (EPS + PS), Gerber, etc.

Special features

    * Vectorisation of images
    * creating the contour of graphic objects
    * Mix function
    * Batch production
    * Serial numbers

Cenon System Requirements
  
2010-06-21

These are the system requirements for the different computer platforms and architectures.
  
Apple

The easiest way to go.

    * Apple with Power-PC or Intel CPU, Cenon is Universal Binary
    * Mac-OS X, version 10.4 (Tiger) or higher

Linux

The easiest way is to start from one of the available Linux distributions. There are no special requirements for hardware, mostly any modern Computer will do the job.

The GNUstep backend of choice is the Art-Backend because it allows text scaling and text rotation.

      Linux based on a standard distribution:

          o SuSE (vhf offers GNUstep packages)
          o Red Hat
          o Debian
          o Gentoo (Source-Distribution)

      GNUstep Library
          o GNUstep RPMs for SuSE Linux (packages provided by vhf)
          o Debian (GNUstep packages for Debian Linux)

Unix in general

Systems like Sun Solaris, Free BSD, Net BSD need to be compiled from source code.

    * Cenon Source Codes
    * GNUstep Core Libraries (Make, Base, GUI)

OpenStep

Still own a version of OpenStep 4.2? On any modern PCs this is a rocket with a slick user experience, the world has not seen again since then. Nowadays not a true option any more without USB support...

    * Intel compatible PC (x86)
    * OpenStep 4.2

Download here...

Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher

Have you ever wonder about Panoramic Images? Do you know how to create that? Feel that it would be COSTLY?

No...It is free...and again its OpenSource.


Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher!

With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

 Hugin has now reached stable state: the software is recommended for general use.

Download location for stable binaries releases are listed by platform here.

Hugin is in constant development. From time to time somebody is kind enough to publish binaries of development versions.

Hugin has been localised with Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukranian translations.

Download here

Inkscape - An Open Source vector graphics editor

Again this one is from Open Source. Again this one rocks. Great news for Graphic Designers....you dont get ~$500 or something to buy a 'COSTLY' vector editing software.

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

Supported Operating Systems

Inkscape binaries are provided for the following platforms:
Official binary distributions

• Linux
• Windows Me, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
• Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and later; Starting with the 0.42 release  

Current Features

Object creation

    * Drawing: pencil tool (freehand drawing with simple paths), pen tool (creating Bezier curves and straight lines), calligraphy tool (freehand drawing using filled paths representing calligraphic strokes)
    * Shape tools: rectangles (may have rounded corners), ellipses (includes circles, arcs, segments), stars/polygons (can be rounded and/or randomized), spirals
    * Text tool (multiline text, full on-canvas editing)
    * Embedded bitmaps (with a command to create and embed bitmaps of selected objects)
    * Clones ("live" linked copies of objects), including a tool to create patterns and arrangements of clones

Object manipulation

    * Affine transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing), both interactively and by specifying exact numeric values
    * Z-order operations
    * Grouping objects, with a way to "select in group" without ungrouping, or "enter the group" making it a temporary layer
    * Layers, with a way to lock and/or hide individual layers, rearrange them, etc; layers can form a hierarchical tree
    * Copying and pasting objects
    * Alignment and distribution commands

Fill and stroke

    * Color selector (RGB, HSV, color wheel)
    * Color picker tool
    * Copy/paste style
    * A gradient editor capable of multi-stop gradients
    * Pattern fills (bitmap/vectors)
    * Dashed strokes, with many predefined dash patterns
    * Path markers (e.g. arrowheads)

Operations on paths

    * Node editing: moving nodes and Bezier handles, node alignment and distribution, etc.
    * Converting to path (for text objects or shapes), including converting stroke to path
    * Boolean operations
    * Path simplification, with variable threshold
    * Path insetting and outsetting, including dynamic and linked offset objects
    * Bitmap tracing (both color and b/w)

Text support

    * Multi-line text
    * Uses any installed outline fonts, including right-to-left scripts
    * Kerning, letterspacing, linespacing adjustments
    * Text on path (both text and path remain editable)
    * Text in shape (fill shape following stroke)

Rendering

    * Fully anti-aliased display
    * Alpha transparency support for display and PNG export
    * Complete "as you drag" rendering of objects during interactive transformations

Misc

    * Live watching and editing the document tree in the XML editor
    * PNG and PostScript export
    * Command line options for export and conversions
    * Perfectly compliant SVG format file generation and editing

Download here

Gimp - an alternative to Adobe Photoshop..?

Ever feel the cost of Adobe Photoshop just bites your hand? Ever feel an alternative to Adobe Photoshop would be nice if it is come FREE of cost?

Then, take a breath. GIMP is here.

GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package.

Introduction to GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Features and Capabilities

This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features. You can also have a look at the illustrated features overview.

• Painting
  
  
  
  
  
  • Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
  • Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
  • Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
  • Supports custom brushes and patterns
  
  
  
  
• System
  
  
  
  
  
  • Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
  • Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
  
  
  
  
• Advanced Manipulation
  
  
  
  
  
  • Full alpha channel support
  • Layers and channels
  • Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
  • Editable text layers
  • Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
  • Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
  • Foreground extraction tool
  • Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
  • Transformable paths, transformable selections.
  • Quickmask to paint a selection.

• Animation
  
  
  
  
  
  • Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
  • MNG support
  • Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  • Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
  
  
  
  
• File Handling
  
  
  
  
  
  • File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
  • Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
  • SVG path import/export
  
  
  
  
• Much, much more!

More Screenshots
Download here

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Well, in this blog I try myself to give latest updates in the computer field. Again, I hope this blog will surely help someone who is eager for latest computer news.

THANKING YOU ALL.