GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor. Emacs is a highly advanced text editor, providing users with much more than simple insertion and deletion. This large, complex application does everything from editing text to functioning as a complete
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jEdit – programmer’s text editor
jEdit is a mature programmer’s text editor. It has an easy to use interface that resembles that of many other Windows and Mac text editors. It uses the Swing toolkit for the GUI and can be configured as a rather
Read morejed – cross-platform text editor
Jed is a small, fast (faster startup than bash) and powerful text editor. This package is completely customizable with prepared emulation modes for Emacs, CUA (similar to KDE/Gnome/OpenOffice), Borland-IDE, Brief, and EDT. It is extensible in the S-Lang scripting language
Read moreDiakonos – editor for the masses
Diakonos is a customizable, usable console-based text editor. It has the aim of being easier to configure and use than emacs, more powerful than pico and nano, and not as cryptic as vi or ex. Diakonos uses the standard Macintosh/Windows
Read moreTEA – text editor
TEA is a GTK-based text editor that provides a wide range of text-processing functions (over 100) and syntax highlighting, yet the software has a very small footprint. It can read the following formats: Plain text, OpenDocument, OpenOffice.org SWX, KWord KWD
Read moreKompoZer **AWOL**
KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be easy to use, making it suitable for non-technical computer users
Read moreMOSCITO **AWOL**
The MOSCITO simulation program is designed to perform molecular dynamics simulations of rigid and/or flexible molecules using classical molecular mechanics force–fields. Standard molecular mechanics force-fields such as AMBER, OPLS, CHARMM and GROMOS can be employed. Simulations can be undertaken in
Read moreQtiPlot – data analysis and scientific visualisation software
QtiPlot is a fully fledged plotting software similar to the OriginLab Origin, SigmaPlot and Igor Pro. It can make two and three dimensional plots of publication quality, both from datasets and functions. It can also perform non-linear fitting and multi-peak
Read moremaildrop – mail delivery agent with filtering abilities
maildrop is a replacement local mail delivery agent that includes a mail filtering language. The system administrator can either replace the existing mail delivery agent with maildrop, or users may run maildrop using the ‘forward to program’ mechanism of the
Read moreOpenGroupware.org – collaborative software
OpenGroupware.org (OGo) is an Open Source collaborative software (groupware) server for multiple clients. Groupware is software intended create an environment that will foster communication and coordination among a group of people. Functions include: Project and task definition, collaborative writing, workflow
Read moreScalix – e-mail and groupware server
Scalix is an open source e-mail and groupware server. It was originally based on HP OpenMail, which was licensed from Hewlett Packard. Scalix provides e-mail, calendars and other collaborative software, which are standard in groupware. It can be accessed from
Read moreVipul’s Razor – distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering network
Vipul’s Razor is a checksum-based, distributed, collaborative, spam-detection-and-filtering network. The primary focus of the system is to identify and disable an email spam before its injection and processing is complete. Razor establishes a distributed and constantly updating catalogue of spam
Read morefetchmail – remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility
fetchmail is an open-source software utility which is used to retrieve e-mail from a remote POP3, IMAP, ETRN or ODMR mail server to the user’s local system. The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers supporting any of the common
Read moreMailWatch – web-based front-end to MailScanner
MailWatch for MailScanner is a web-based front-end to MailScanner written in PHP, MySQL and JpGraph. MailScanner is a highly respected open source email security system design for Linux-based email gateways. It is used at over 40,000 sites around the world,
Read morePine – Program for Internet News & Email
Pine is a program for Internet News & Email: a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was developed by UW Technology at the University of Washington. Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Pine has evolved to
Read moreKMPlayer – media player software
KMPlayer is a basic audio/video viewer application for KDE, and a video player plugin for the Konqueror web browser. You can use this software for watching all the movie file formats that MPlayer, xine or GStreamer support, as well as
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dvgrab – command line FireWire DV and HDV capture tool
dvgrab receives audio and video data from a digital camcorder via FireWire or USB link and stores them into one of several file formats.
Read moreOgle **AWOL**
Ogle is an open source DVD player that supports DVD menus. It has many useful features like bookmarks, time skipping, multichannel audio, and crop & zoom video. Ogle supports playing CSS encrypted DVDs. It also plays DVDs with or without
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Miro – music and video player
Miro (previously known as Democracy Player) is a platform for Internet television and video. It allows you to download and watch videos from RSS feeds.
Read moreFreeJ – vision mixer
FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for realtime video manipulation used in the fields of dance teather, veejaying, medical visualisation and TV. It features realtime rendering of multilayered video and chained effect filtering directly on the screen (through dynamically
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