open-source software

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SMPlayer icon

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smplayer.info/

SMPlayer is yet another front end for the famous and awesome media player MPlayer. Well, it would be awesome if it wasn’t so UNIX-like that it desperately needed to have a front end made. Still, it’s awesome now that it has a real one.

A frontend for MPlayer.

I use this to supplement VLC



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syslinux logo

(on Wikipedia)
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project [ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20191231072326/https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Syslinux_Project

A bootloader with various companion tools.

Seems fantastic, but only in the sense that various other tools use it in magical automated ways.

  • isohybrid is part of the syslinux group of tools.
  • Includes SYSLINUX, which is Linux-specific.



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Pragha screenshot

https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ [ 1 ] was pragha.wikispaces.com

A neat Gtk audio player / library manager thing.



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Footnotes

firefox-logo.png

Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

A web browser and feed reader.

  • Originally called Phoenix, then Firebird.

    • Yes, I used it way back then.
  • Shares some code with Thunderbird



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