The best players for ubuntu,mint

VLC media player - this player audio and video files to Linux. VLC supports a large number of multimedia formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg and others.

 

VLC media player can be used as a video server for streaming on the network. Also, VLC requires no additional download codecs, codec included in the program. Features can be expanded with plug-ins, and the appearance can be changed with skins.
Install VLC in Ubuntu

For VLC there is the repository from which you can install the latest version of the program. To install VLC on Ubuntu Linux run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc

Icq for linux ubuntu,mint

Pidgin - universal modular Instant Messaging (IM) client for Linux. One of the most popular IM-messengers. Pidgin supports many protocols: ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, Bonjour iChat, Groupwise, Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE.

The client has a modular structure and allows one-click connect and disconnect modules (plugins). Originally called Pidgin Gaim. Pidgin dostuppen also for Windows and MacOS X.

 sudo apt-get install pidgin

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gThumb - viewer and image browser for Linux. Has a lot of possibilities, but at the same time simple and convenient.

Includes features such as filtering and sorting images, image editing, image export, slideshows, automatic image rotation based on exif, create photo albums, recording images to disk, red-eye removal tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, import images from cameras and more more. 

sudo apt-get install gthumb

how to install Blender for linux ubuntu(mint)

Blender - is a very powerful free software for three-dimensional modeling on Linux. With Blender , you can create 3D objects and scenes of any complexity, animation , rendering, video processing , to create objects and logic to the games. And this is only a small part of all the programs .
In Blender, you can use Python scripts to write logic to games, build tools and scripts.
On the Internet there are a lot of guides , tutorials , video lessons on Blender. Mnozhetsvo additions - models , textures , plugins , Python scripts, Libraries are the materials and stuff. So master the program itself is not that difficult , besides , there are many forums and community program .

An important feature of the program is its small size, comparable to the 10-20 MB after installation. Blender can work on a large number of operating systems including , Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris, Irix , and others.