User:JohnWS/Software


 * Ubuntu Linux A popular Linux distribution - especially good for new users
 * Gentoo Linux A source based Linux distribution
 * Stumpwm A tiling window manager
 * Xmonad A dynamic tiling window manager
 * Fluxbox A lightweight window manager
 * Emacs - The text editor which includes the kitchen sink
 * Vi text editor (actually vim)
 * Jedit - an excellent full-featured text editor
 * Open Office The open source office suite
 * download page (should automatically detect operating system)
 * Gnumeric - a spreadsheet (better math support than openoffice)
 * Inkscape - a drawing program based on SVG
 * Scribus - a desktop publishing program. I also use it for making PDF presentations.
 * LyX - GUI front end to LaTeX
 * Gqview - photo viewer
 * Gimp - photo editor (note the difference with gqview)
 * Mutt - the command line based e-mail client
 * Firefox - Mozilla's open source web browser
 * IceCat] - GNU free software version of Firefox]
 * MozEx - cool Firefox add-on for using a text editor for editing inside the browser (note does not work for Firefox 3.5+)
 * AdBlock Plus - Firefox add-on which blocks ads
 * NoScript - Firefox add-on which blocks potentially dangerous Javascript
 * w3m - a text web browser
 * Urxvt - terminal with good unicode support
 * zsh - shell designed for interactive use