Software on the Unix Systems

Symbolic Math Packages

• Maple
• Matlab
• Mathematica

Typesetting

• OpenOffice
• TeX
• LaTeX-2e
• Math into LaTeX Short Course (PDF) by George Gratzer.
• nroff, troff
• How to Make Browsers Display Mathematical Symbols

Spreadsheet

• OpenOffice
• Gnumeric

Numerical

• BLAS - Basic Linear Algebra (Subprograms)
• BLACS - Basic Linear
• GAP - Groups Algorithms, and Programming
• MPI - Message Passing Interface
• LAPACK - Linear Algebra PACKage (succesor to LINPACK and EISPACK)
• ScaLaPACK - Scalable LAPACK
• Singular and Plural - Polynomial computer algebra system
• TNT - Template Numerical Toolkit (successor to Lapack++, Sparselib++, IML++, MV++)
• PETSc - Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
• Documentation for these libraries (under construction)

Editors

• vi. Standard Unix editor.
• Emacs. Sophisticated terminal and X editor. Builtin help and tutorial
• Nedit. Mouse driven editor. Builtin help.
• pico. Easy to use terminal editor similar to pine. Builtin help.

E-mail

Our configuration allows e-mail to be read on any of the central Unix systems.

• Thunderbird The next generation of Mozilla Mail.
• Mozilla Mail.
• Netscape.
• Kmail. KDE. Easy to use.
• Pine. Terminal-based. Very easy to use.

Graphics

• xmgr - Point and click plots.
• plotmtv - multi-purpose plotting tool.
• xfig - Figure drawing.
• geomview: Geometry Center Visualization and Simulation Software
• xpaint - graphics program to edit many graphic types including gif, tiff, bmp, etc.
• xv - graphics viewer of several graphics types including jpg, gif, bmp, etc.
• gimp - sophisticated image manipulation.
• kview - KDE image viewer.

WWW Browsers

• Firefox
• Mozilla
• Netscape
• Lynx - text based browser suitable for remote logins.
• wget - quick download of single files.

News Readers

The USENET news is read from the campus server, news.tamu.edu.

• trn. Terminal based. Standard news reader.
• GNUs. Emacs-based. Start with emacs -f gnus.
• Thunderbird also has news capabilities.

Miscellaneous

• Java Developer Kit
• GAIM - connects to multiple instant messaging services
• IMAP - remote mail access
• mrolo - rolodex.
• Thunderbird - address book.
• korganizer - KDE calendar manager.
• kcalc - KDE calculator.
• ghostview - Postscript previewer.