Table of Contents
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 :
