In the past few months, I’ve covered a whole raft of music players. This time I’m going to walk through Cantata. Cantata is billed as a feature-rich and user friendly client for Music Player Daemon (MPD).
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In the past few months, I’ve covered a whole raft of music players. This time I’m going to walk through Cantata. Cantata is billed as a feature-rich and user friendly client for Music Player Daemon (MPD).
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Nulloy is a cross-platform Qt 4 based music player released under an open source license. A music player you may not have heard of, but one worth checking out!
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We covered many high quality file managers in our Qt File Managers Roundup and GTK File Managers Roundups. But there are graphical non-Qt and non-GTK file managers available. Here’s our favorites.
Read moreTemps is a clean and minimalistic weather menubar application for any desktop. Temps uses code from several open source projects including Electron, Menubar, Chart.js and OpenWeatherMap. The software is released under an open source license. You need a free API
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Pragha Music Player is a music player is written in the C programming language, uses the GTK+ widget toolkit, and stores database in a SQLite3 database.
Read moreClockywock is billed as a cool ncurses analog clock. The software is written in the C++ programming language. The software is released under an open source license. Features include: Mono or color mode. Change characters used for hands. Change background
Read moreBitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core
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Are you debilitated by the countless music players that use web technologies with a massive RAM footprint? Maybe you want a lean yet slick audio player with a good range of features?
Read moreSteem is a legendary Atari ST emulator, both accurate and easy to use thanks to its great user interface. Its development was stopped in 2004, at v3.2. Steem SSE is an updated version of Steem based on that source release.
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Genesis Plus GX is a Sega multi-system emulator originally for the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii.
Read moreKiwi IRC is a web based IRC client. It’s designed to be simple to use. The software is released under an open source license. Features include: Themes – there are several themes included within Kiwi IRC to cover a wide
Read moreParallel XZ (PXZ) is a compression utility that takes advantage of running LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores and processors simultaneously. Its main goal is to use all system resources to speed up compression
Read moreUlauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It has a minimal design, dependent on only a few resources, very fast, and works on virtually all Linux desktops. The software is written in Python, using GTK+. The software is released
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Our article “Best Linux Desktop Environments: Strong and Stable” surveyed 9 strong and stable Linux desktop environments (DEs). Due to popular demand, this article extends that survey with 3 other desktops: Pantheon, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE), and LXDE. We examine their features, user experience, resources footprint, extensibility, and documentation, and compare them to the 9 desktops covered in the original article.
Read morePantheon is the desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution. It’s written from scratch in Vala, using GTK3 and Granite. With regards to usability and appearance, the desktop has some similarities with GNOME Shell and macOS. Pantheon is
Read moreCinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to Gnome 2 with underlying technology forked from Gnome Shell. Cinnamon makes users feel at home with an easy to
Read moreThe MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. If you love cascading menus, top and bottom panels, and an absence
Read moreLXQt is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment. LXQt is the product of the merge between LXDE-Qt, an initial Qt flavour of LXDE, and Razor-qt, a project aiming to develop a Qt based desktop environment with similar objectives as the current
Read moreGNOME is a desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems, composed entirely of free and open-source software. It provides a graphical user interface and a set of core applications, and the GNOME Development Platform, a framework for building applications that integrate
Read morePlasma is the KDE workspace. It’s a common framework for creating integrated interfaces. It’s flexible enough to provide interfaces for mobile devices (phones and netbooks), media centres and desktop computers. Plasma supports widgets written specifically for Plasma (also known as
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