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Linux Software? There is a large selection of software for Linux. According to Freshmeat.net, a large index of software for Linux and other Unices, there are currently over 23,000 projects in development. Many of these programs are Open Source and/or Free. Below is an overview of some popular software for Linux. For more software and downloads, check out Our Software Download section. Office Suite - Open Office OpenOffice.org is both an Open Source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office. Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages with more being constantly added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), and Windows. Additional ports, such as for FreeBSD, IRIX, and Mac OS X, are in various stages of completion. Graphics Software - GIMP The GIMP is our answer to the current lack of free (or at least reasonably priced) image manipulation software for Linux and UNIX in general. The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Web Browser - Mozilla Mozilla is a standards-compliant Web browser that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape. Mozilla also provides email/news/irc software. It is the basis for Netscape 6/7 as well as other web browsers such as Galeon. Instant Messanging - Gaim Gaim is a GTK-based messenger application. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL. It is actively being developed and supports many common features of other clients, including many unique features. It also supports multiple protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Napster, and Zephyr. Programming - Gcc The GNU Compiler Collection contains frontends for C, C++, Objective C, Chill, Fortran, and Java as well as libraries for these languages. It is a full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C as well. GCC provides many levels of source code error checking traditionally provided by other tools (such as lint), produces debugging information, and can perform many different optimizations to the resulting object code. Database - MySQL MySQL is the most popular open source database server in the world with more than 2 million installations powering websites, datawarehouses, business applications, logging systems and more. Customers such as Yahoo! Finance, MP3.com, Motorola, NASA, Silicon Graphics, and Texas Instruments use the MySQL server in mission-critical applications. Mathmatics Software - Mathematica From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used. Web Server - Apache Apache is the world's most popular HTTP server, being quite possibly the best around in terms of functionality, efficiency, security and speed. FTP Server - ProFTPD ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility. Movie Player - MPlayer MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX. It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, VIVO, ASF/WMV, QT/MOV, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, OGG and some RealMedia files, You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, FLI, and even DivX movies too. The another big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB and DXR3/Hollywood+ ! And what about the nice big antialiased shaded subtitles (9 supported types!!!) with european/ISO 8859-1,2 (hungarian, english, czech, etc), cyrillic, korean fonts, and OSD? Audio Player - XMMS XMMS is a multimedia player based on the look of WinAmp. XMMS plays MPEG layer 1/2/3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, all formats supported by libmikmod, and CD audio. XMMS has a plugin system for Input / Output / Effects / Visualization, and through plugins it can play a lot more sound and video formats. Games A quick list of popular games that have been ported to Linux:
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