Top Applications That Make Linux Fun to Use

In this article, I am mentioning top  Apps without which a linux enthusiast cannot live.

1. Ekiga

Now, video conferencing is a trend in the technology world. When people think of video conferencing, there may be many apps like Skype which provides this facility. There is an application calledEkiga which was designed in open standard. So it is an open source application which provides SIP calling, LAN chatting and video conferencing facilities.

Ekiga is definitely the best open source application which is easy to use like Skype.

1. Gimp

You may definitely require photo editing in one or another way at some time. When you think of photo editing software, photoshop will be the blinking name in many minds. There are many software available for photoediting. One of the most widely used open-source application is what simply known as GIMP. Many of photoshop alternatives may be difficult to use. It will be very hard to understand many options. But the open-source alternative GIMP is easy to use. GIMP offers operations to create, edit and alter images.

GIMP is simple and user friendly application. You have to dedicate some time to understand the operations. Then you will become expert in this software.

1. VLC

Eventhough there are a lot of Media player available, VLC has many specialities. It can play almost all video formats including flash without any problem. It also has the ability to encode videos and play network video streams.