GNU/Linux software
| Program | Comments | Command | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Word processors | |||||
| AbiWord - GNOME Office | Microsoft Word clone | abiword | |||
| Antiword | Write Microsoft Wordfiler as pure text | antiword | |||
| Acrobat Reader | Display PDF files | acroread | |||
| Kile | LaTeX IDE | Kile (in the Debian menu) | |||
| KWord - KOffice | Word processor, see koffice.org | kword | |||
| LaTeX | Textsetting with TeX, see DSV's info page (in Swedish) on LaTeX | latex | |||
| LyX | LaTeX IDE | lyx | |||
| Math - OpenOffice.org | Manipulate formulas | oomath | |||
| Xpdf | Display PDF files | xpdf | |||
| Writer - OpenOffice.org | Microsoft Word replacement | oowriter | |||
| Text editors | |||||
| Elvis | Vi clone | elvis | |||
| Emacs | Popular text editor | emacs | |||
| jEdit | Javabased text editor | jedit | |||
| Nano | Easy to use Emacs clone | nano | |||
| Scite | Source code editor | scite | |||
| Gvim/Vim | Vi clone | gvim/vim | |||
| Program development | |||||
| Ant | "Make" for Java code, see ant.apache.org | ant | |||
| Appletviewer | Run Java Applets | appletviewer | |||
| ArgoUML | Make UML models, see ArgoUML web site | argouml | |||
| Aspect/J | Aspect-oriented extension to Java, see eclipse.org/aspectj | ant | |||
| C | GNU C compiler | gcc | |||
| C++ | GNU C++ compiler | g++ | |||
| Cecil | Object oriented programming language Cecil | cecil | |||
| Cincom Smalltalk | Smalltalk IDE smalltalk.cincom.com | visual | |||
| CLISP | GNU Common Lisp | clisp | |||
| CVS | Version control system, see CVS web site | cvs | |||
| Ddd | Graphical frontend to GDB | ddd | |||
| Eclipse | Java IDE, see eclipse.org | eclipse | |||
| Erlang | Programming language, see www.erlang.org | erl (finns endast på triton) | |||
| gbeta | A generalization of the object oriented programming language BETA, see www.daimi.au.dk/~eernst/gbeta/ | gbeta | |||
| GDB | GNU debugger | gdb | |||
| GNU Objective C | C-based object oriented programming language | gobjc | |||
| JDE | Java IDE for Emacs | emacs | |||
| J2SE | Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition | java, javac m.fl. | |||
| MIT Scheme | Lisp dialect | scheme | |||
| Mozart | IDE for the OO language Oz, see web site | mozart | |||
| Mono | Open source implementation of Microsoft .NET, see www.mono-project.com | mono | |||
| Pascal | GNU Pascal compiler, see www.gnu-pascal.de | gpc | |||
| Perl | Programming language, see www.perl.org | perl | |||
| Prolog | SICStus Prolog, see SICStus web site | sicstus | |||
| Python | Programming language, see python.org | python | |||
| Rational Rose | Modeling tool from Rational/IBM | rose | |||
| Ruby | Programming language, see www.ruby-lang.org | ruby | |||
| Scala | Object oriented programming language, see scala.epfl.ch | scalac | |||
| SmartEiffel | Object oriented programming language, see smarteiffel.loria.fr | smarteiffel.sh | |||
| Smalltalk | Programming language GNU Smalltalk, see www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/smalltalk.html | gst | |||
| Tcl/Tk | Embedded script language, see www.tcl.tk | tcl | |||
| Spreadsheet | |||||
| Calc - OpenOffice.org | Spreadsheet, cf. Microsoft Excel | oocalc | |||
| Gnumeric - GNOME Office | Spreadsheet | gnumeric | |||
| KSpread - KOffice | Spreadsheet, see koffice.org | kspread | |||
| Graphics | |||||
| Dia - GNOME Office | Diagram editor (cf. Microsoft Visio), see Dia web site | dia | |||
| Draw - OpenOffice.org | Vector graphics editor | oodraw | |||
| Eeyes | Display raster graphics | eeyes | |||
| Eog - GNOME Office | Display raster graphics, Eyes of Gnome | eog | |||
| Ghostview | Display PostScript | ghostview | |||
| GIMP - GNOME Office | Image editor (cf. Photoshop), see www.gimp.org | gimp | |||
| ImageMagick | Create, edit and convert bitmapped graphics, see ImageMagick.org | do "man ImageMagick" to see the commands | |||
| Impress - OpenOffice.org | OH program, (cf. Microsoft Powerpoint) | ooimpress | |||
| Inkscape | SVG editor in Gnome, see inkscape.org | inkscape | |||
| Karbon14 - KOffice | Vector grahics editor, see koffice.org | kivio | |||
| KChart - KOffice | Diagram program, see koffice.org | kchart | |||
| Kivio - KOffice | Flowshow program (cf. Microsoft Visio), see koffice.org | kivio | |||
| KPresenter - KOffice | OH presentation, see koffice.org | kpresenter | |||
| Krita - KOffice | Raster graphics editor, see koffice.org | krita | |||
| Scribus | Desktop-program, se www.scribus.net | scribus | |||
| Sodipodi - GNOME Office | Vector graphics editor in Gnome Office | sodipodi | |||
| Xfig | Vector graphics editor | xfig | |||
| Xpaint | Image editing tool | xpaint | |||
| Office systems | |||||
| GNOME Office | Office suite for word processing, spreadsheet, raster and vector graphics, OH presentation, diagrams etc. GNOME Office | abiword, gnumeric, gimp, sodipodi, eog, dia | |||
| KOffice | Office suite for word processing, spreadsheet, OH presentation, flowshow, vector and raster graphics, diagram, see KOffice.org | kword, kspread, kpresenter, kivio, karbon14, krita, kchart | |||
| OpenOffice.org | Office suite for word processing, spreadsheet, OH presentation, graphics and database, see OpenOffice.org | ooffice, oowriter, oocalc, ooimpress, oodraw, oodbase | |||
| Web | |||||
| Amaya | HTML editor, see w3.org/Amaya | amaya | |||
| Galeon - GNOME Office | Mozilla based web browser | galeon | |||
| Gnotepad+ | Simple HTML editor | gnotepad+ | |||
| Links | Text-based web browser | links | |||
| Mozilla | Web browser | mozilla | |||
| Mozilla Firefox | Web browser (new and recommended) | mozilla-firefox | |||
| Opera | Web browser | opera | |||
| W3m | Text-based web browser | w3m | |||
| Web - OpenOffice.org | HTML editor | ooweb | |||
| Wget | Fetch files on the web | wget | |||
| Mozilla Thunderbird | Graphical e-mail client | mozilla-thunderbird | |||
| Mutt | Text-based e-mail client | mutt | |||
| Alpine | Text-based e-mail client | alpine | |||
| Data base | |||||
| MySQLgui | Graphical MySQL client | mysqlgui | |||
| Statistical analyses | |||||
| PSPP | SPSS clone | pspp | |||
| Window systems | |||||
| Fluxbox | Window system | choose in GDM | |||
| GNOME | Desktop environment | choose in GDM | |||
| Ion | Window system | choose in GDM | |||
| KDE | Desktop environment | choose in GDM | |||
| Window Maker | Desktop environment | choose in GDM | |||
| Communication | |||||
| Everybuddy | Instant messaging client | everybuddy | |||
| First Class | FC client | fcc | |||
| GAIM | Instant message client | gaim | |||
| GnomeICU | ICQ client | gnomeicu | |||
| Rdesktop | Windows remote desktop client | rdesktop | |||
| SSH | SSH client | ssh | |||
| Sun Java Wireless Toolkit | Wireless application development kit | ktoolbar | |||
| Xchat | IRC client | xchat | |||
| Media players | |||||
| Aumix | Audio mixer | aumix | |||
| Mpg321 | MP3 player, see "man mpg321" | mpg321 | |||
| MPlayer | Movie player which supports many formats, see "man mplayer" | mplayer | |||
| RealPlayer | Play and display streaming realaudio and realvideo, see real.com | realplayer | |||
| vlc | VideoLAN, streaming video, see videolan.org | vlc, gvlc, gnome-vlc, qvlc | |||
| Xine | Free multimedia playes for many different formats, see www.xine-project.org | xine | |||
| XMMicrosoft | X MultiMedia System for MP3 etc, see xmms.org | xmms | |||
| Print-out | |||||
| a2ps | Print text files | a2ps | |||
| lpp | Print-out text files | lpp | |||
| lpr | Print-out of PostScript files | lpr, lpq, lprm | |||
| Misc. | |||||
| Cdrecord | Burn cd | cdrecord | |||
| Mkisofs | Create ISO files before cd burning | mkisofs | |||
| Mtools | Handle DOS floppies | see "man mtools" | |||
| Nautilus | Graphical file manager in GNOME | nautilus | |||
| Octave | For numerical calculations | octave | |||
| OpenOffice.org | Microsoft Office replacement | soffice | |||
| Recode | Convert between character sets | recode | |||
| SciGraphica | Tool for data analysis and visualisation | scigraphica | |||
| Smbclient | Similar to FTP client, for accessing windows files | smbclient | |||
| Unix tools (selection) | |||||
| bzip2 | Compress files | bzip2 | |||
| cut | Select parts from each textline | cut | |||
| dict | Dictionary client | dict | |||
| diff | Find the differences between two files | diff | |||
| du | Check the disk usage | du | |||
| flip | Convert between DOS and Unix text end of line file format | flip | |||
| gzip | Compress files | gzip, gunzip, zcat | |||
| grep | Search in text files | grep, zgrep | |||
| head | Show the beginning of a text file | head | |||
| host | Check the domain name | host | |||
| info | Read Info documents | info | |||
| ispell | Check spelling | ispell | |||
| less | Read text files | less | |||
| man | Read manual pages | man | |||
| od | Dump files in octal, hexadecimal etc. format | od | |||
| quota | Display the disk quota | quota | |||
| sort | Sort files | sort | |||
| tail | Show the end of a text file | tail | |||
| tar | Archiving of files | tar | |||
| top | Show processes | top | |||
| wc | Count characters, words and lines in a text file | wc | |||
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