Software on the Unix Systems
Symbolic Math Packages
Typesetting
- OpenOffice
- TeX
- LaTeX-2e
- Math into LaTeX Short Course (PDF) by George Gratzer.
- nroff, troff
- How to Make Browsers Display Mathematical Symbols
Spreadsheet
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.
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.
Last update: 07Jul2009 slj