Software Information

• Vendors
• Operating Systems
• PC Software
• Scripting Languages
• Windowing Systems
• Shareware/Freeware/Open Source
• Software by topic

Vendors

• Adobe Systems Inc.
• Apple Technical Support Web server
• Bolt, Beranek and Newman
• Borland Online
• CodeWarrior (Formerly from Metrowerks, now from Freescale Semiconductor)
• Microsoft Corporation World-Wide-Web Server
• Novell Inc.
• The Open Group
• QUALCOMM Home Page
  • Eudora Email client
• Sun Microsystems
• Symantec Corporation Home Page
• Wolfram Research, Inc.

PC Software

Scripting Languages

• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Tcl/Tk
  • TCL Contributed Sources Archive

Windowing Systems

• Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
  • SunSoft CDE page
• X Window System distribution information
• X-sites - maintained by Kenton Lee. Links to lots of X related sites.
• Exceed Student Edition - a $25 student edition of the Exceed PC X server software used in the labs.
• M/IX - free/cheap Mac/PC X server package
• Starnet.com - home of X-Win32, a PC X Windows server. There is a crippleware demo that isn't too crippled (sessions limited to 2 hours)

Shareware/Freeware/Open Source

• SourceForge - main support site for Open Source projects
• GNU software
• SunFreeware.com
• Download.com
• Tucows - Windows95/NT Software
• freedownloadscenter
• Free Software Foundation's links to Free software
• Prime Time Freeware
• Archives
  • HPCC National Software Exchange
  • NCSA Software Distribution Group
  • Texas Office of Telecom Services Mac Archive - No longer active, but there are some links to other Mac resources here
• FSF/GNU Software
  • The GNU Project web site
  • GNU's Not Unix!
  • GNU Hurd information
  • Emacs
• Packages
  • My packages
  • CAP Mac/Unix print package
  • DDD - The Data Display Debugger (dbx/gdb front end)
  • Fetch (Mac FTP client) - Now a commercial product, but an older version is still available for free on this web site.
  • gcc compiler
  • Mac Gzip home page
  • PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Page
  • Random number generators: The pLab Project Home Page
  • TeX/LaTeX document formatting software
    • LaTeX Home page (CTAN, served from UK)
    • LaTeX FAQ
    • TeX - teTeX distribution docs
    • TeX User's Group (TUG)
    • Latex2html documentation
    • LyX home page - visual front end for LaTeX
  • Unrelated Inventions -home of AudioTools
  • Xmgr home page - 2D graphing utility
    • Local Copy of User Manual
    • FAQ
  • Grace - open source successor to Ace/Gr and Xmgr

Software by topic

• Databases
• Editors
• Electronic mail packages
• Games
• Simulation Software
• Spreadsheets - Chris Browne, includes pointers to free Linux spreadsheets
• Version Control
• WWW software

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