====== My favorite software with Linux ======


===== Internet =====


  * **Thunderbird** : mail client
    * see [[Thunderbird]]
  * **Firefox** : web browser
    * see [[Firefox]]
  * **Pidgin** (formerly Gaim)
  * **Httrack**

===== Multimedia =====

  * **Xmms** : equivalent of winamp (out of portage now, xmms2 soon)
  * **Audacious** : another equivalent of winamp
    * **xlyrics** : lyrics display plugin (overlay gentoo-china) 
  
  * **mplayer**
  * **VLC**

  * **Gimp** : equivalent of PaintShop
  * **KolourPaint** : equivalent of Windows Paint
  * **geeqie** : a nice image viewer (fork of gqview)
  * **Inkscape** : vectorial picture editors
  * **Dia** : to do vectorial schemes

  * **motion** : video motion detector for your webcam

  * **AviDemux** : encoder
  * **Hugin** : create panoramic images

===== Editors =====

  * **Gobby** : a collaborative editor
  * **Scite** : equivalent of Notepad++
  * **Kate** : another sort of equivalent of Notepad++
  * **nano** : a light console text editor
  * **flpsed** : a PDF pseudo-editor (to fill form when there is no true form)

===== Utilities =====

  * **Fluxbox** : a light and highly configurable window manager !
  * **mrxvt** : a nice tabbed console

  * **wcalc** : a very strong command line calculator
  * **Stardict** : dictionary

  * **acroread** : Acrobat Reader
  * **Evince** : a very light and fast pdf, ps and dvi viewer

  * **Xfe** : a file explorer
  * **Krusader** : a complete file commander

  * **Conky** : a nice system monitor
  * **xosd** : to print text on the screen with shortcuts
  * **x11vnc** : a VNC server implementation which acts like under Windows
  * **tightvnc** : a good VNC client
  * **screen** : enables to detach a ssh session (to let it running while closing the ssh connection)



===== Scientific =====
  * **scilab** : equivalent of matlab
  * **gnuplot** : to easily draw plots

===== Programming =====

  * **Doxygen** : to automatically generate documentation
  * **Valgrind** : memory checker for c++
  * **cccc** : compute some criteria for your code
  * **SlocSount** : counts number of lines of your code
  * **Umbrello** : UML
  * **gdb** : GNU debugger


===== System =====

  * **htop** : CPU and MEM usage
  * **jnettop** : Network usage
  * **rlocate** : implementation of locate which also indexes in-line
  
  * **Wine** : to run Windows executables
  * **VirtualBox** : PC emulator to run Windows or Linux

===== Misc =====

  * **Celestia** :
  * **Stellarium** :
  * **KStars** :