>This is quite typical for ppl who are new into the >Linux 'thing' as it
>is "cool" because everybody talks of it and magazines >have writeups on them
Well am not that 'new' into the Linux 'thing' infact i started with Linux then shifted
to win platform and had to jump back to Linux again ......
Just an explanation ....
I was not trying to debate on anything, that remark came spontaneously ....after all
look at all that softwares available for linux ...I have jot down a few and I am sure
You know there are lots more ....which I have never even heard of ......
Office tools: StarOffice Suite, Corel WordPerfect Office 2000, The American Hertitage
Dictionary Deluxe, Applixware Office Suite for Linux, D.M.S. Document Management
System, HotWire EasyFAX, NexS, Network Extensibe Spreadsheet, Axene Office, Projector
and the Projector/Net, Virtual Office System, Axene XA11Write, Axene Xclamation, Axene
XQuad
Image Manipulation: GIMP, blender, ImageMagick Data Visualization and CAD: IDL
(Interactive Data Language), Megahedron, Tecplot 7.0, VariCAD, VARKON, XVScan
Programming: C/C++, Pascal, Java, ACUCOBOL-GT, Amzi! Prolog & Logic Server, Basmark
QuickBASIC, Critical Mass CM3, Dynace, Fortran, Absoft Fortran 77, Finesse, ISE
Eiffel, EiffelBench, C-Forge IDE, IdeaFix, j-tree, KAI C++, Khoris Pro 2.1, MetaCard,
ObjectManual Release 3.0, Critical Mass Reactor, Resource Standard Metrics, r-tree,
sdoc (Source Documenter), SEDIT, S/REXX, SniFF+, ST/X (Smalltalk/X), tdb (Tcl
Profiler), View Designer/X (VDX), Xbasic, Xmove 4.0
Multimedia/ Sound: RealPlayer 7.0, MPEG Video Player (mtv/mtvp), MpegTV Player 1.0,
Xaudio MP3 player by MpegTV, Peter Lipa and his Journeys, Lucka Vondrackova and her
Journeys, Peter Nagy and his Journeys, CD-Player, MODPlayer, MP3Player,
MIDI-Sequencer, OSS, ALSA
Typesetting: teTeX/LaTex, Ghostscript, Edith Pro for X11, TeraSpell 97 for Emacs
Web server: Apache, CommuniGate Pro Website development: ASWedit, Empress DataWEB,
EZ-EDIT, LinkScan, TalentSoft Web+, VirtuFlex 1.1, Visual prolog, Web Crossing,
ThreadTrack, WebTailor
Network: TCP/IP, NFS, UUCP, PPP, IPX, Appletalk, HAM radio, ISDN, SMB (samba:
Windows), ARCnet, Internet, Critical Angle X.500 Enabler, DNEWS News Server, Aventail
Internet Policy Manager, Aventail VPN, WANPIPE, Zeus Web Server, Intel Network
Management Suite
Internet: WWW, mail, IRC, News, DNS, SuSE Proxy Suite (firewall tool) with FTP Proxy,
Netscape Communicator
Mail: Sendmail, smail
Databases: Sybase ASE, Informix Dynamic Server (Linux Edition Suite), MySQL,
FrontBase, c-tree Plus, Empress, Essentia, FairCom Server, INFORMIX-SE, Just
Logis/SQL, KE Texpress, Qddb, Raima Database Manager++, Empress Embedded RDBMS, SOLID
Server, Velocis Database Server, Yard SQL, Oracle, Paradox Unix tools: awk, sed, grep,
find, rcs, make, mgroff, bison, flex, perl, m4
Emulators: DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, C64, C128, VIC20, PET, ZX Spectrum, Gameboy, Nintendo
Entertainment System, Atari VCS2600, C9oleco Vision, ZX81, Emulus, Executor 2, Wabi
2.2 for OpenLinux, Vmware
Financial Software: BB Stock Pro and BB Stock Tool, Time Clock
Libraries: FontScope, INTERACTER, Matrix-C++ Math Matrix Library, PKWARE Data
Compression Library for Linux, readyBase, SIMLIB IG
Mathematics: Maple V Release 4- The Power Edition, MATCOM and MATCOM MATH LIBRARY,
Mathematica 3.0, MATLAB and Simulink
System Administration Tools: Host Factory, PerfectBACKUP+, Venus
X Windows Related Products: Accelerated-X Display Server, Bxwidgets, Bxwidgets/DB,
Laptop, MaXimum cde Developer's Edition v1.0, Multi-headed, OpenGL, OSF-Certified
Motif
Utilities: BootMagic, PartitionMagicSE, LILO, Bru, Arkeia, White Pine
Games: Simcity, Quake, Railroad Tycoon II, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Heretic II,
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire, Myth II Soulblighter, Civilization: Call to Power, Heavy
Gear II
Macintosh software: Mozilla, Netscape Communicator, Apache, Crystal Space, Nedit, MP3,
MpegTV, Q-SeeMe, Netatalk, BootX, Krilo, C, Java, Tcl/Tk, gnuplot, Gameboy Emulator
Other Software: ABACUS 4, BBBS, Clustor, FootPrints, Aladdin Ghostscripts, Magician,
journyx WebTime, LanSafe, LjetMgr, Synchronize/CyberScheduler
Free Software for Commercial Hardware: Stallion Technologies Multiport Serial Boards
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