Linux Application List

Office Suite -

• ApplixWare  www.applix.com ($)
• Available for i386, Alpha, and soon PowerPC
• StarOffice  www.stardivision.com ($)
• Free download for personal use
• Intel version only

Word Processors/Text Editors

• Corel WordPerfect  www.corel.com ($)
• Free for personal use
• Intel version only
• XEmacs   www.xemacs.org
• GPL and available for all Linux platforms
• Acrobat  www.adobe.com
• View and print PDF files.
• Ghostscript  www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
• Interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
• MSWordView  www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/
• Program to convert MS Word97 files into html.

Desktop Environments/Window Managers

• KDE  www.kde.org
• The K Desktop Environment. Version 1.0 currently available with 1.1 soon to be released.
• Includes lots of utilities and small programs along with the environment.
• Recommended for new users.
• Gnome  www.gnome.org
• Still under development but shows a lot of promise.
• Enlightenment  www.enlightenment.org
• WindowMaker  www.windowmaker.org

Emulators  -run (some) of your Macintosh/Windows/Dos applications.

• Executor2  www.ardi.com ($)
• Run Macs apps under Linux. Commercial product with student discount and free time limited demo.
• Wabi 2.2  www.caldera.com ($)
• Run 16-bit Microsoft Windows applications under Linux.
• Wine  www.winehq.com
• Still under development but getting better. Will eventually run most Windows 16 and 32 bit apps. Something to watch.
• DOSEMU  www.dosemu.org
•   Dos box for Linux. Will not run Win3.1.

Graphics/Drawing

• The Gimp  www.gimp.org
• Good Photoshop like graphics tool.
• Available under GPL and on all platforms
• XV  www.trilon.com/xv/index.html
• XPaint  www.image.dk/~torsten/xpaint/index.html

Web Browsers

• Netscape  www.netscape.com
• Available for i386 and SPARC only.
• Mozilla  www.mozilla.org
• Version on Netscape available with source code.
• Lynx  lynx.browser.org
• Comes with most distibutions
• Text based (no graphics) but quick and reliable.
• Amaya  www.w3.org
• Arena  www.yggdrasil.com/Products/Arena

Mail/News Clients

• Pine  www.washington.edu/pine
• Text based mail clients that support local mailboxes, POP3, IMAP and Net News (NNTP).
• Mutt  www.mutt.org
• Another small text based mail client.
• Balsa  www.balsa.net
• The official mail client for the Gnome desktop.
• Support local mailboxes as well as POP3 and IMAP.
• Fetchmail  www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail
• Mail transfer and forwarding tool (not reader/editor).
• Supports all mail protocols now in use on the internet.
• Tin  www.tin.org
• Text based threaded NNTP news reader.

X-Servers

• XFree86  www.xfree86.org
• Free Xserver for most platforms.
• Support for the very latest in video cards may be unavailable.
• XiGraphics  www.xig.com ($)
• i386 and Alpha version.
• OpenGL Support.
• Laptop and Desktop versions.
• Multi-headed support.
• MetroX  www.metrolink.com ($)
• OpenGL Software
• i386 and Alpha

Other Resources

• Commercial-HOWTO  ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO
• Freshmeat  www.freshmeat.net
• Linux Applications Page  www.linuxapps.com

Items marked with a $ are commercial products that might or might not be available for trial and/or personal use.