Useful software
The tables below show you lists of software that I installed on my PC. The package name helps you to install the application via Synaptic (System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager). The particular website provides additional information like screenshots or manuals.
| Package name | Homepage | Description |
|---|---|---|
| geany | geany.uvena.de  | Geany is a small text editor with syntax highlightning and an integrated terminal. |
| gedit | www.gnome.org/projects/gedit | A small text editor with syntax highlightning and good support for many character sets. |
| khexedit | home.online.no/~espensa/khexedit | KHexEdit is an easy to handle hex editor. |
| kpdf | kpdf.kde.org | A PDF viewer with several useful functions for extraction of text an images from PDF files. |
| xchm | xchm.sourceforge.net | XCHM is an application to view Microsoft Compressed HTML Help files. |
| kolourpaint | kolourpaint.sourceforge.net | A free and easy-to-use software for painting and editing image files. |
| gimp | www.gimp.org | The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a comprehensive raster graphics editor application. |
| octave | www.octave.org | Octave is a free application for performing numerical computations. It is mostly compatible with MATLAB. |
| gfortran | gcc.gnu.org/fortran | The GNU Fortran (GFortran) compiler is an application to compile fortran77, fortran95 and parts of fortran2003 source codes. |
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| Package name | Homepage | Description |
|---|---|---|
| glipper | glipper.sourceforge.net | Glipper is a clipboard utility for the GNOME panel, that allows you cache text and reselect it for pasting. |
| k3b | www.k3b.org | Free Application for burning CD's and DVD's that was designed for KDE (K Desktop Environment). |
| gparted | gparted.sourceforge.net | GParted is the GNOME Partition Editor application that helps you to create, destroy, resize, move, check and copy partitions, and the file systems on them. |
| gnome-art | art.gnome.org | Gnome-art is a small tool that helps you to download and install desktop themes and backgrounds from the GNOME Art Website. |
| nautilus-open-terminal | www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=908 | This nautilus plugin allows you to open terminals in arbitrary local paths and on SSH servers by using the context menue. |
| nautilus-script-manager | g-scripts.sourceforge.net | This nautilus extension allows you to apply own scripts to selected files via the menue of the right mouse button. |
| msttcorefonts | corefonts.sourceforge.net | An easy way to install many of Microsoft's TrueType core fonts (like 'Comic Sans MS', 'Courier New', 'Georgia', 'Verdana', 'Times New Roman' and 'Arial') on linux. |
| xnest | www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Xnest.1.html | Xnest opens a window that works like another screen. That allows you for example to take screenshots form the login window. |
| wine | www.winehq.org | This commandline application allows you to execute programs on linux that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. |
| dvdbackup | dvd-create.sourceforge.net | Dvdbackup is a commandline tool to create backups of DVD's. |
| pdftk | www.accesspdf.com/pdftk | This commandline tool comprises many functions like joining or decrypting PDF files. |
| xpdf-utils | This package allows you (in your terminal) to convert PDF files to PostScript/text files (pdftops/pdftotext), to extract PDF document information/images (pdfinfo/pdfimages) and analyse the used fonts (pdffonts). | |
| mmv | Mmv is a commandline program to move (mmv) / copy (mcp) / append (mad) / link (mln) multiple files. | |
| rkhunter | rkhunter.sourceforge.net | This commandline tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. |
| chkrootkit | www.chkrootkit.org | This program for the commandline helps you to check your system for known rootkits. |
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| Package name | Homepage | Description |
|---|---|---|
| filezilla | filezilla-project.org | The FileZilla Client is a free und open source FTP client that is available for several platforms like Windows and Linux. |
| mozilla-thunderbird | www.mozilla.com/thunderbird  | Mozilla Thunderbird is a free e-mail and news client with a good spam filter that is available for several platforms like Windows and Linux. |
| d4x | www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo | Downloader for X (D4X) is a powerful graphical download manager. |
| wget | www.gnu.org/software/wget | Wget is a commandline download manager that allows you to download single files as well als whole websites. |
| konqueror | www.konqueror.org | Konqueror is a web browser, file manager and file viewer that was designed for KDE (K Desktop Environment) |
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| Package name | Homepage | Description |
|---|---|---|
| xmms | www.xmms.org | XMMS (X MultiMedia System) is a player for various audio formats and is very similar to Winamp. |
| vlc | www.videolan.org/vlc | The VideoLan Client (VLC) media player is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project. |
| audacity | audacity.sourceforge.net | Audacity is a digital audio editor application available for various operating systems. |
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