Table of Contents

My favorite software with Linux
- Internet
- Multimedia
- Editors
- Utilities
- Scientific
- Programming
- System
- Misc

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 :