Available Software

On any of the Math Department machines, you will find the following generally used programs.

Email:

Pine and Thunderbird

Firefox, Seamonkey, links

Xemacs, emacs, vim, and nedit, OpenOffice (for reading and editing of Microsoft Word and Excel documents)

LaTeX, kile, dvips, ps2pdf

gcc, lf95 (Lahey Fortran 95 Compiler with IMSL)

for PDF: acroread (Acrobat Reader), for PostScript: evince, for DVI: xdvi

(the items in the list below are anchor links to their corresponding sections in the table below)

Notes:

The command to type is listed in column two. Use all lowercase letters unless otherwise noted.
The links provided will direct you either to the software product's home page or to specific Math Department instructions for using and/or setting up the program.

Networking
Program Function	Name of Program
Web browser	Mozilla Konqueror Firefox Nautilus
Console web browser	Links Lynx
Email client	Evolution (MS Outlook style) Thunderbird Kmail
Console email client	Pine Mutt
News reader	Knode Mozilla
Console news reader	Pine Mutt
Files and Sites downloading	Wget

File Management
Program Function	Name of Program
Console File Manager	Pilot
File Manager in Windows style	Konqueror Nautilus
Quick viewing of local html documents	Konqueror Nautilus Links Lynx

Desktop / Systems Software
Program Function	Name of Program
Simple text editor	Kedit (KDE) Gedit (Gnome) Kate (KDE) Nedit Vim, Emacs Pico (console)
Simple text editor for code editing	Kate (KDE) Nedit Vim, Emacs
Work with compressed files	Ark (KDE) File Roller (type file-roller)
Viewing PDF	Acrobat Reader (type acroread) Xpdf
Creating PDF	Ps2pdf PDFLatex

Multimedia – Audio / CD
Program Function	Name of Program
Music / mp3 / ogg players	XMMS (X multimedia system) Noatun
Multimedia – Graphics
Graphic files viewer	Kuickshow Eye of Gnome (type eog)
Powerful graphic editor in Photoshop Style	Gimp ImageMagick (type display)
Work with vector graphics	Xfig OpenOfficeDraw (type oodraw) Dia
Text decoration	OpenOfficeDraw (type oodraw)
Icon editor	Kiconedit
Small program for making screenshots	Ksnapshot
Multimedia – Video and other
Video / DVD players / mpeg4 players	Mplayer

Office / Business
Program Function	Name of Program
Office suite	Openoffice(type ooffice) TeX, LaTeX
Word processor	OpenOffice Writer (type oowriter)
Spreadsheets	OpenOffice Calc (type oocalc)
Drawing graphs	Dia Xfig Gnuplot
Creating presentations	OpenOffice Impress (type ooimpress)
Project planning, scheduling, tracking tool	MrProject

Programming and Development
Program Function	Name of Program
IDE	Kdevelop Glade(type glade-2) Anjuta Emacs, XEmacs
html editor	Bluefish
WYSIWYG html editor	Mozilla Composer (type mozilla –edit) OpenOffice html editor (type ooffice)
HEX editor	KHexEdit
Fortran 95 Compiler	Lahey Fortran Pro v6.2 (type lf95)

Scientific and Special Programs
Program Function	Name of Program
Math system in Matlab style	Matlab Octave + Gnuplot
Math system in Mathematica style	Mathematics
Math system in Maple style	Maple
Extended equation editor	OpenOffice Math (type oomath)
Advanced text processing system in TeX style	TeTeX / LaTeX Lyx (WYSIWYM)
Convenient, functional and user-friendly TeX files / dvi files editor	Kile
Statistical analysis	Splus