| Bob Uttl, Ph.D. |
| Home >> Go Linux! |
[Site map]
|
|||
|
Go Linux! Windows or Linux OS? Financial costs (several 1,000s of dollars for software per computer) and hassle factor (your MS OS is licensed only for that computer and if it dies you need to buy a new computer AND new MS OS; you need to call MS when you change components in your computers more than MS allowed number of times) of using Windows OS are unjustifiable. In contrast, Linux OS has evolved beyond MS OS -- it is more stable, easy to use, etc.. Moreover, it is free, you can install it on as many machines as you like, you do not have to buy a new copy every time your computer dies, etc.. And your colleagues will never know that you edited their MS doc in OpenOffice... This page has a selection of software I use as well as software I know is made for Linux and is useful in academic work. Some of these free, open applications are also available for MS Windows, most notably, OpenOffice and R statistical computing package. Linux Operating System (alternative to MS Windows) OpenSuse Linux OS FREE Office Applications (alternative to MS Office) OpenOffice FREE reads & writes OpenDocument format (OASIS) but also reads & writes MS doc, ppt, xls, etc. files components include: Writer, Impress, Math, Draw, Calc, & Base multiplatform -- available for Linux, MS Windows, etc. multilingual -- too many to list PDF Readers and Creators Adobe Reader FREE Ghostview FREE Ghostscript FREE XPDF FREE GV FREE Internet Browsers Firefox FREE Mozilla FREE Opera FREE Image Manipulation Programs Gimp FREE replaces Photoshop multiplatform -- available for Linux, MS Windows, Mac, etc. Email Clients Evolution FREE email client, calender, & more Thunderbird FREE runs from any media (hard drive, USB stick, external hard drive) Statistical Computing R FREE statistical software dialect of commercial S-Plus multiplatform -- available for Linux, MS Windows, Mac, etc. Stata $$$$ statistical software multiplatform -- available for Linux, MS Windows Mathematical Computing Matlab $$$$ high level language for numerical computations Octave FREE high level language for numerical computations "mostly compatible with Matlab" Music Players Amarok FREE music player, replaces iTunes GtkPod FREE Photo & Image Processing Software Gwenview FREE image viewer Gimp FREE replaces Photoshop multiplatform -- available for Linux, MS Windows, Mac, etc. Web Authoring Mozilla Composer (part of Mozilla) FREE OpenOffice Web Creator (part of OpenOffice) FREE NVU FREE Quanta FREE |
| [Home] [Site map] |
|
|