1. [email_address] SOME WONDERFUL SOFTWARES FOR EVERYDAY USE By[email_address]Team http://www.lug-iitd.org groups.google.com/group/iitdlug (mailing list)

2. Linux Softwares 1991,Linus Torvalds 3. First Post by Linus Some Histories of Linux begin with this message posted by Linus Torvalds to thecomp.os.minixnewsgroup on August 25,1991: Hello everybody out there using minix- I'm doing(free) operating system(Just a hobby.won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones.This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.I 'd like any feebackon things people like/dislike in minix,as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)) among other things............Any suggestions are welcome,but i won't promise to implement them :- ) Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi) 4. Softwares in Linux It is used as an operating system for a wide variety of computerhardware , includingdesktop computers ,supercomputers , [4]video game systems, such as thePlayStation 2andPlayStation 3 , severalarcade games , andembedded devicessuch asmobile phones ,routers , andstage lightingsystems. 5. What is the Linux Equivalent Of ...

• There's a Linux Equivalent of almost every software in the market.

6. They are being improved all the time by volunteers all over the world.

7. If its not there you can always start a new project at www.sourceforge.net ! 8. So Lets Begin with a Few ... 9. Office Suites

• Open Office: Writer, Impress, Calc, Draw, Math, Writer/Web (The best)

10. Koffice : Kword, Kchart, Kpresenter, Kspreadsheet etc.

11. Gnome Office: AbiWord 12. Star Office (prop) 13. Support for MS Office files available! 14. Open Office suite

Writer

15. Impress 16. Calc 17. Draw 18. Math 19. Base 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Web Browsers

• Netscape / Mozilla

27. FireFox/Ice Weasel

28. Nautilus 29. Opera (prop.) 30. Konqueror 31. Epiphany 32. Programming

• Anjuta + Glade + Devhelp

33. Kdevelop + QT Designer

34. Eclipse 35. Boa Constructor 36. Graphical Libraries: QT, GTK+, wxwindows, PyQT, PyGTK+, GtkADA,Tk, fox + many more 37. Scientific& special Programs

• Math Systems: Octave (Matlab like), Matlab(prop.), Scilab, euler, yacas, maxima

38. Equation editor: OpenOffice Math, Kformula

39. 3D Modelling: ProEngineer Linux (prop.), CATIA(prop.) 40. CAD/CAM: Ansys (prop.), qcad, pythoncad 41. GIS: grass, qgis 42. Electronics: geda, ghdl, verilog, sdcc 43. Multimedia Players

• XMMS

44. Mplayer

45. xine 46. Totem Movie Player 47. Noatun 48. zinf 49. Winamp + many more 50. 51. 52. OtherSoftwares

• Desktop environment suites: Kde, Gnome, Xfce, icewm

53. Video Conferencing: Gnome Meeting

54. Screen capture: Xvidcap, Istanbul 55. CD Burning: K3b 56. Dialup: Kppp, Gppp 57. TV Program: xawtv 58. Webcam Utilities

Cheese

59. Camorama 60. Applications Of Cheese 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. Electronics Softwares

PCB Designer-for designing Circuit boards

66. IVerilog-Simulator for circuit simulations 67. GEDA-Electronic dsign automation tool 68. GNU SIM 8085-Tool for Programming of 8085 microcontrollers and burning utility. 69. Qemulator-Digital multimeter simulation environment 70. SciLab 71. GNUSIM 8085 Microcontroller Tool 72. 73. GEDA 74. 75. Programming Languages Available

• C/C++

76. Java

77. Python 78. Perl 79. Ruby 80. ADA 81. Fortran and many more 82. Text Editors

• Kedit

83. Gedit

84. Vim 85. Xemacs 86. Kate 87. Kwrite 88. Console Editors: vi, emacs, joe, jed 89. PDF Tools

• Acrobat Reader (proprietary software,Bounded under license terms)

90. Kpdf

91. Ghost View 92. gpdf 93. Related tools: pdf2html , pdftotext, Tex2pdf 94. pdf Writers: Ghostscript, KGhostview , Adobe Acrobat distiller (prop), Openoffice export feature 95. Archivers

• FileRoller

96. Ark

97. tar 98. gzip 99. bzip2 100. TkZip 101. File Managers

• Nautilus

102. Konqueror

103. Gnome Commander 104. Endeavour Mark II 105. File Downloaders

• Kget

106. Downloader for X

107. Prozilla 108. Kmago 109. Gnome Transfer Manager 110. QTGet 111. Xget 112. wget (The Best!) 113. Instant Messengers

• LICQ

114. aMSN

115. Yahoo Messenger 116. Simple Instant Messenger 117. Pidgin (formerly Gaim) (Nearly all IM protocols) 118. EveryBuddy 119. Kopete (Nearly all IM protocols) 120. Development Tools 121. These are some of the Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), editors, and other development tools available for Ubuntu: 1)Anjutais an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++. 2) Bazaar-NGis a decentralised version control system used for Ubuntu development. 3) Bluefishis a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers. 122. Eclipseis an IDE for Java and other programming languages. It forms the basis for closed-source programs such as Jbuilder. Ericis a fully featured Python and Ruby IDE. Gladeis a User Interface designer for building GNOME applications. IDLEis the Python IDE built with the Tkinter GUI toolkit. KDevelopis a IDE for KDE which supports many programming languages. 123. MonoDevelopis an IDE for writing mono/.net applications in C# and other languages. NetBeansis a Java IDE that features support for CVS and a form builder. BlueJis a Java IDE, it's a easy way to run Java programs and program components DrJavais a lightweight development environment for writing Java programs. 124. BlueJ BlueJ is an IDE It includes an editor, which you use to write your programs a debugger, to help you find your mistakes a viewer, to see the parts of your program an easy way to run Java programs and program components an easy way to view documentation Adapted from notes by http://bluej.org 125. Bluefish: a very quick introduction

• Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.

126. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

127. Support for remote files using gnome-vfs (depending on your gnome-vfs setup, you'll have FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, Samba and more) 128. Eric

• Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python.

129. It is based on the cross platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control

130. It is designed to be usable as everdays' quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool integrating many advanced features Python offers the professional coder. 131. Eric includes a plugin system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plugins downloadable from the net. 132. Kdevelop

• KDevelop is a free software integrated development environment for the KDE desktop environment

133. KDevelop does not include a compiler; instead, it uses an external compiler such as gcc to produce executable code.

134. The current version, 3.5, supports many programming languages such as Ada, Bash, C, C++, Fortran, Java, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. 135. Released under the GNU General Public License 136. MonoDevelop

• MonoDevelop is a free GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages.

137. The .NET documentation and the Gtk# documentation are built into MonoDevelop for easy access.

138. MonoDevelop comes with built in projects that help get you started with your console, Gnome# or Gtk# application. 139. MonoDevelop has a powerful add-in engine, whichcomplete set of extension points, provides a seamless platform upon which to build your own development tools. 140. Eclipse

• Eclipse is an open-source Integrated development environment (IDE) written primarily in Java.

141. In its default form it is meant for Java developers, consisting of the Java Development Tools (JDT).

142. Users can extend its capabilities by installing plug-ins written for the Eclipse software framework, such as development toolkits for other programming languages, and can write and contribute their own plug-in modules. 143. Language packs provide translations into over a dozen natural languages. 144. Workbench Terminology Tool bar Perspective and Fast View bar Resource Navigator view Stacked views Properties view Tasks view Outline view Bookmarks view Menu bar Message area Editor Status area Text editor 145. Java Perspective

Java-centric view of files in Java projects

Java elements meaningful for Java programmers

Java project package class field method Java editor 146. Java Editor

Hovering over identifier shows Javadoc spec

147. GNUPLOT

The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it).

148. http://www.gnuplot.info/ 149. What is gnuplot?

Versatile visualization tool

Command driven, interactive function plotting program

Designed for mathematics visualization

Student programmers looking to visualize classroom concepts

150. Open source code Multiple Platforms

Unix/Linux, Macs, lots of others

151. Windows version has a menu-driven interface Copyrighted but freely distributable

Not part of the Gnus Not Unix project (emacs)

152. Some Useful Links

• http://www.kernel.org- The official kernel site

153. http://www.debian.org/ - Debian

154. http://www.debianhelp.org Debian's Help Site 155. http://www.linux.org/ -Linux Online 156. http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat 157. http://www.sourceforge.net/ - Lots of Projects 158. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ 159. http://www.distrowatch..com/ - Reviews of Different Distros 160. http://www.linuxiso.org/ - Get your ISO D/Ls here. 161. /http://rpmfind.net/ - Get your RPMs here ! 162. http://www.tldp.org/ - The Linux Documentation Project 163. http://www.alsa-project.org - The alsa project page 164. Some Useful Links

http://www.linuxquestions.org

165. http://www.distrowatch.com 166. http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php(for Indepth linux history Archives) 167. http://www.scilab.org/ 168. www.lwn.net 169. www.linuxhelp.net 170. www.linuxforums.org 171. 172. Qs? Queries Welcome 173. THANK YOU ARUN SINGH [email_address] http://www.arun.arwachin.googlepages.com