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Useful open source software
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- 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
- MozEx - cool Firefox add-on for using a text editor for editing inside the browser (note does not work for Firefox 3.5+)
