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Table of Available Software in the Math Department


1) Networking.
2) File Management.
3) Desktop / System software.
4) Multimedia:
4.1) Audio / CD.
4.2) Graphics.
4.3) Video.
5) Office/business.
6) Programming and development.
7) Scientific and special programs.


Notes:

1. Command to type is as listed using all lowercase letters, unless otherwise noted.

2. Links provided in the second column go to the software project's home page unless there are specific Math Department instructions for using or setting up that program then the link goes to the instructions provided.

Program Function
 Name of Program
1) Networking.
Web browser 1) Mozilla.
2) Konqueror.
3) Opera.
4) Firefox.
5) Nautilus.
Console web browser 1) Links.
2) Lynx.
Email client 1) Evolution.
2) Thunderbird.
4) Kmail.
Email client in MS Outlook style  Evolution.
Console email client 1) Pine.
2) Mutt.
News reader 1) Knode.
2) Mozilla.
Console:
3) Pine.
4) Mutt.
Files downloading  Wget.
Sites downloading  Wget.
2) File Management.
Console File Manager  Pilot.
File manager in Windows style 1) Konqueror.
2) Nautilus.
Quick viewing of local HTML documents 1) Konqueror.
2) Nautilus.
3) Lynx / Links.
3) Desktop / System software.
Simple text editor

1) Kedit (KDE).
2) Gedit (Gnome).
3) Kate (KDE).
4) KWrite (KDE).
5) Nedit.
6) Vim, Emacs.
7) Pico(console).
Simple text editor for code editing

1) Kate (KDE).
2) Nedit.
3) Vim, Emacs.

Work with compressed files 1) Ark (KDE).
2) File Roller. (type file-roller).
Viewing PDF 1) Acrobat Reader  (type acroread).
2) Xpdf.
3) ggv.
Creating PDF 1) Ps2pdf.
2) PDFLatex.
4.1) Multimedia (audio / CD).
Music / mp3 / ogg players 1) XMMS (X multimedia system).
2) Noatun.
4.2) Multimedia (graphics).
Graphic files viewer 1) Kuickshow.
2) Eye of Gnome. (type eog)
Powerful graphic editor in PhotoShop style 1) Gimp.
2) ImageMagick (type display).
Programs for work with vector graphics

1) Xfig.
2) OpenOffice Draw (type oodraw).
3) Dia.
Program for text decoration OpenOffice Draw (type oodraw).
Icon editor Kiconedit.
Small program for making screenshots Ksnapshot.
4.3) Multimedia (video and other)
Video / mpeg4 players
 Mplayer.
DVD players  Mplayer.
5) Office/business.
Office suite

1) Openoffice (type ooffice).
2) TeX, LaTeX, ...
Word processor OpenOffice Writer (type oowriter).
Spreadsheets

OpenOffice Calc (type oocalc).
Drawing graphs

1) Dia.
2) Xfig.
3) Gnuplot.
Creating presentations

OpenOffice Impress (type ooimpress).
Project planning, scheduling and tracking tool

MrProject.
6) Programming and development.
IDE

1) Kdevelop.
2) Glade. (type glade-2)
3) Anjuta.
3) Emacs, XEmacs.
HTML editor Bluefish.
WYSIWYG html editor 1) Mozilla Composer (type mozilla  -edit).
2) Openoffice HTML editor (type ooffice).
HEX-editor KHexEdit.
Fortran 95 Compiler Lahey Fortran Pro v6.2 (type lf95).
7) Scientific and special programs.
Math system in Matlab style 1) Matlab.
2) Octave + Gnuplot.
Math system in Mathematica style Mathematica.
Math system in Maple style Maple.
Extended equation editor OpenOffice Math (type oomath).
Advanced text processing system in TeX style 1) TeTeX / LaTeX
2) Lyx (WYSIWYM).
Convenient, functional and user-friendly TeX-files / dvi-files editor. Kile.
Statistical analysis

Splus.

Credit goes to http://linuxshop.ru/ for the information provided and the initial table.

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