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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 24. Getting to Know Linux Software</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="susebooks.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Documentation"><link rel="up" href="part.appendix.html" title="Part VII. Appendix"><link rel="prev" href="part.appendix.html" title="Part VII. Appendix"><link rel="next" href="bk05pt07apa.html" title="Appendix A. GNU Licenses"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header" border="0" class="bctable"><tr><td width="80%"><div class="breadcrumbs"><p><a href="index.html"> Documentation</a><span class="breadcrumbs-sep"> > </span><a href="book.apps.html">Application Guide</a><span class="breadcrumbs-sep"> > </span><a href="part.appendix.html">Appendix</a><span class="breadcrumbs-sep"> > </span><strong><a accesskey="p" title="Part VII. Appendix" href="part.appendix.html"><span>◀</span></a> <a accesskey="n" title="Appendix A. GNU Licenses" href="bk05pt07apa.html"><span>▶</span></a></strong></p></div></td></tr></table></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 24. Getting to Know Linux Software"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="cha.linwin"></a>Chapter 24. Getting to Know Linux Software<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#cha.linwin">¶</a></span></h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="cha.linwin.html#sec.linwin.office">24.1. Office Applications</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="cha.linwin.html#sec.linwin.net">24.2. Network</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="cha.linwin.html#sec.linwin.mm">24.3. Multimedia</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="cha.linwin.html#sec.linwin.graph">24.4. Graphics</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="cha.linwin.html#sec.linwin.sys">24.5. System and File Management</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="cha.linwin.html#sec.linwin.swd">24.6. Software Development</a></span></dt></dl></div><a class="indexterm" name="id558901"></a><p>
Linux* comes with a wealth of applications, often offering more than one
solution to specific needs. The difficulty is finding the application that
suits your needs best. The next few sections introduce some of the most
powerful Linux counterparts of common Windows software. Each section is
dedicated to one particular field of application and presents an overview
of the Windows applications and Linux equivalents for several tasks. Below
each table, find further information about the Linux applications with
links to more information. This list is by no means complete, because
software development is an evolutionary process and new applications are
constantly being created.
</p><div class="tip"><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="Tip: Applications not Installed by Default"><tr class="head"><td width="32"><img alt="[Tip]" src="admon/tip.png"></td><th align="left">Applications not Installed by Default</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><p>
Not all applications mentioned below are installed on your system by
default and some may not be shipped with your product. If the application
you want to use is missing, ask your system administrator. If the
application is provided by your product, you can install it with YaST.
Use the search function of the YaST software management tool to find
the name of the wanted package.
</p></td></tr></table></div><div class="sect1" title="24.1. Office Applications"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sec.linwin.office"></a>24.1. Office Applications<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.office">¶</a></span></h2></div></div></div><p>
This section features the most popular and powerful Linux office and
business software solutions. These include office suites, databases,
accounting software, and project management software.
</p><div class="table"><a name="id558949"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 24.1. Office Software for Windows and Linux</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table summary="Office Software for Windows and Linux" border="1"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>
<p>
Task
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Windows Application
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Linux Application
</p>
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
<p>
Office Suite
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft* Office
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, KOffice
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Word Processor
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft Word, WordPerfect
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
OpenOffice.org, StarOffice Writer, KWord
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Spreadsheet
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft Excel
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
OpenOffice.org, StarOffice Calc, Gnumeric, KSpread
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Presentation
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft PowerPoint
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
OpenOffice.org, StarOffice Impress, KPresenter
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Data Plotting
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft Excel
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
OpenOffice.org, Calc, Kst, Gnuplot, Grace (Xmgr), LabPlot
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Local Database
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft Access
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
OpenOffice.org, Base, Rekall, kexi, Mergeant, PostgreSQL
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Financial Accounting
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft Money, Quicken
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
GnuCash, KMyMoney
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Project Management
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft Project
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Planner, Taskjuggler
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Mind Mapping
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
MindManager, Free Mind
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
VYM (View Your Mind), Free Mind, KDissert
</p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break"><div class="sect2" title="24.1.1. Office Suites"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.office.suites"></a>24.1.1. Office Suites<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.office.suites">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><a name="vle.linwin.off.ooo"></a><span class="term">OpenOffice.org</span></dt><dd><p>
OpenOffice.org is a stable open source equivalent to Microsoft Office
including a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a database
manager (Base), a presentation manager (Impress), a drawing program
(Draw), and a formula editor for generating mathematical equations
and formulas (Math). The user interface is similar to the Microsoft
Office suite. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_top">http://www.openoffice.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.oo.oview.html" title="Chapter 1. The OpenOffice.org Office Suite">Chapter 1, <i>The OpenOffice.org Office Suite</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">StarOffice</span></dt><dd><p>
StarOffice, a proprietary office suite software developed by Sun
Microsystems, is similar to OpenOffice.org. It is available on multiple
platforms like Linux, Windows and Solaris. It contains the same
modules as the OpenOffice.org suite. It also includes certain advanced
features not available with the open source version. For more
details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/" target="_top">http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KOffice</span></dt><dd><p>
KOffice is the fully integrated office suite designed for the KDE
desktop. It comes with various modules, like word processing (KWord),
spreadsheets (KSpread), presentations (Kpresenter), several image
processing applications (Kivio, Karbon14, Krita), a database
front-end (Kexi) and many other applications. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.koffice.org/" target="_top">http://www.koffice.org/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.1.2. Word Processing"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.word.process"></a>24.1.2. Word Processing<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.word.process">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Writer</span></dt><dd><p>
Writer is the stable word-processing and desktop publishing module of
the OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. The StarOffice Writer features some
advanced functionalities not available with OpenOffice.org. For more details,
see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer" target="_top">http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer</a> and
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice" target="_top">http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KWord</span></dt><dd><p>
KWord is the stable frame-based word-processing module of the KOffice
Suite. KWord's easy-to-use features help you to create professional
looking documents and it can handle large amounts of texts. For more
details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.koffice.org/kword/" target="_top">http://www.koffice.org/kword/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.1.3. Spreadsheets"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.spreadsheets"></a>24.1.3. Spreadsheets<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.spreadsheets">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><a name="calc.spread"></a><span class="term">Calc</span></dt><dd><p>
Calc is the spreadsheet and data plotting module of the OpenOffice.org and
StarOffice suites. It is easy to learn and offers a wide range of
features. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html" target="_top">http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html</a>
and
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice" target="_top">http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KSpread</span></dt><dd><p>
KSpread is the spreadsheet module of the KOffice Suite. It is a
scriptable spreadsheet program which provides both table-oriented
sheets and support for complex mathematical formulas and statistics.
For more details see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.koffice.org/kspread/" target="_top">http://www.koffice.org/kspread/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Gnumeric</span></dt><dd><p>
Gnumeric is a spreadsheet solution for the GNOME desktop environment
that can also read files created with other spreadsheets. It's
built-in functions and tools are extremely accurate. For more
details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnumeric.org" target="_top">http://www.gnumeric.org</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.1.4. Presentations"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.pres"></a>24.1.4. Presentations<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.pres">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Impress</span></dt><dd><p>
Impress is the presentation module of the OpenOffice.org and StarOffice
suites. Impress lets you create multimedia presentations with 2D and
3D clip art, special effects, animation, and drawing tools. Impress
can create PDF files from your presentations, and it is able to view,
edit and save files in several file formats, including the *.ppt
format, which is used by Microsoft PowerPoint. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html" target="_top">http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html</a>.
and
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice" target="_top">http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KPresenter</span></dt><dd><p>
KPresenter is the presentation module of the KOffice Suite.
KPresenter can prepare complete sets of slides containing text and
graphics in a variety of formats, and embed all sorts of objects.
KPresenter is also able to load presentations from Microsoft
PowerPoint, MagicPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress documents. For more details
see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.koffice.org/kpresenter/" target="_top">http://www.koffice.org/kpresenter/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.1.5. Data Plotting"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.dataplotting"></a>24.1.5. Data Plotting<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.dataplotting">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Calc</span></dt><dd><p>
See <a class="xref" href="cha.linwin.html#calc.spread">Calc</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Gnuplot</span></dt><dd><p>
Gnuplot is a very powerful and portable command line controlled data
plotting software. It is also available for MacOS and Windows
platforms. Plots created by Gnuplot can be exported to various
formats, such as PostScript, PDF, and SVG, allowing you to process
these plots easily. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnuplot.info/index.html" target="_top">http://www.gnuplot.info/index.html</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Grace</span></dt><dd><p>
Grace is a 2D plotting tool for many platforms including Linux. It
can create and edit plots with a graphical user interface. Grace
supports an unlimited number of graphs per plot. For more details,
see <a class="ulink" href="http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/" target="_top">http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/</a>
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Kst</span></dt><dd><p>
Kst is the data plotting module for the KOffice suite. It allows for
real-time data viewing and plotting with basic data analysis. For
more details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://kst.kde.org/" target="_top">http://kst.kde.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">LabPlot</span></dt><dd><p>
LabPlot is a plotting tool for creating and managing 2D or 3D data
plots and was written for KDE. Graphs can be produced both from data
and functions and one plot may include multiple graphs. It also
offers various data analysis methods. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://labplot.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://labplot.sourceforge.net/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.1.6. Local Databases"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.local.databases"></a>24.1.6. Local Databases<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.local.databases">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Base</span></dt><dd><p>
Base is the database module of the OpenOffice.org and StarOffice suites. It
can be used to create <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">self-contained</span>”</span> database
documents with all relevant data, table definitions, reports, and
forms. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html" target="_top">http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html</a>
and
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice" target="_top">http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Gnome-DB</span></dt><dd><p>
GNOME-DB provides a unified data access architecture to GNOME. It is
useful for any application that accesses persistent data. It consists
of a data abstraction layer (Libgda), a database widget library and a
database front-end (Mergeant). For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnome-db.org/" target="_top">http://www.gnome-db.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Kexi</span></dt><dd><p>
Kexi is an integrated data management application. It can be used for
creating databases, inserting data, performing queries, and
processing data. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface
to your data. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.koffice.org/kexi/" target="_top">http://www.koffice.org/kexi/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">PostgreSQL</span></dt><dd><p>
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system that
supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, and user-defined
types and functions. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.postgresql.org/" target="_top">http://www.postgresql.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Rekall</span></dt><dd><p>
Rekall is a database management tool that supports many database
applications like MySQL,PostgreSQL and Xbase. Rekall can be used for
many tasks such as reports, forms, queries and others. For more
details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/" target="_top">http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.1.7. Financial Accounting"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.fin.account"></a>24.1.7. Financial Accounting<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.fin.account">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">KmyMoney</span></dt><dd><p>
KmyMoney is a personal financial manager for the KDE desktop. It
enables users of open source operating systems to keep track of their
personal finances and offers a broad array of financial features and
tools. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net" target="_top">http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GnuCash</span></dt><dd><p>
GnuCash is a software tool to control personal and business finances.
It enables users to keep track of income and expenses and it is also
used to manage bank accounts, and stock portfolios. For more details,
see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnucash.org/" target="_top">http://www.gnucash.org/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.1.8. Project Management"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.project.manager"></a>24.1.8. Project Management<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.project.manager">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Planner</span></dt><dd><p>
Planner is a project management tool for the GNOME desktop aiming to
provide functionality similar to the project management tools used
under Windows. Amongst its features are Gantt charting and different
display types for tasks and resources. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.imendio.com/projects/planner/" target="_top">http://www.imendio.com/projects/planner/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Taskjuggler</span></dt><dd><p>
Taskjuggler is a project management tool that enables the user to
control projects using Gantt charting features. It can also be used
to generate reports in different formats (XML, HTML or CSV).
Taskjuggler can be controlled from the command line but also offers a
graphical front-end. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.taskjuggler.net" target="_top">http://www.taskjuggler.net</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.1.9. Mind Mapping"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.mind.map"></a>24.1.9. Mind Mapping<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.mind.map">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">FreeMind</span></dt><dd><p>
FreeMind is a mind-mapping like tool for structuring ideas, thoughts
and concepts. It can copy nodes (or the style of nodes) and paste
texts from sources such as HTML, RTF, and mails. The mind maps can be
exported into various formats, such as HTML and XML. For more
details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" target="_top">http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">VYM</span></dt><dd><p>
VYM (View Your Mind) is a mind-mapping like tool for structuring
ideas, thoughts and concepts. VYM mind maps are created in XML which
can be exported to HTML. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://insilmaril.de/vym" target="_top">http://insilmaril.de/vym</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Semantik</span></dt><dd><p>
Semantik (previously KDissert) is a mindmapping-like tool for
structuring idea. Users can generate various outputs from the mind
map, such as PDF files, text documents and HTML files. For more
details see <a class="ulink" href="http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/kdissert/" target="_top">http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/kdissert/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div></div><div class="sect1" title="24.2. Network"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sec.linwin.net"></a>24.2. Network<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.net">¶</a></span></h2></div></div></div><a class="indexterm" name="id560006"></a><p>
The following section features various Linux applications for networking
purposes. Get to know the most popular Linux browsers and e-mail and chat
clients.
</p><div class="table"><a name="id560021"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 24.2. Network Software for Windows and Linux</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table summary="Network Software for Windows and Linux" border="1"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>
<p>
Task
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Windows Application
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Linux Application
</p>
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
<p>
Web Browser
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Internet Explorer, Firefox*, Opera
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Konqueror, Firefox, Opera, Epiphany
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
E-Mail Client/Personal Information Management
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft Outlook*, Lotus Notes, Mozilla Thunderbird*
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Evolution, Kontact, Mozilla Thunderbird
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Instant Messaging/IRC Clients
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
MSN, AIM*, Yahoo!* Messenger, XChat, Gaim
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Gaim, Empathy, Kopete, Konversation, XChat
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Conferencing (Video and Audio)
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
NetMeeting, LifeMeeting
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Ekiga
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Voice over IP
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
X-Lite
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Ekiga, Skype
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
FTP Clients
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
leechftp, wsftp
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
gftp, kbear
</p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break"><div class="sect2" title="24.2.1. Browsers"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.web.brows"></a>24.2.1. Browsers<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.web.brows">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Epiphany</span></dt><dd><p>
Epiphany is a lean, but powerful Web browser for the GNOME desktop.
Many of its features and extensions are similar to Firefox. For more
details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/" target="_top">http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Firefox</span></dt><dd><p>
Firefox is a Web browser that runs on various platforms, including
Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Its main features include customizable
searches, pop-up blocking, RSS news feeds, password management,
tabbed browsing, and some advanced security and privacy options. For
more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/" target="_top">http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.firefox.html" title="Chapter 14. Browsing with Firefox">Chapter 14, <i>Browsing with Firefox</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Konqueror</span></dt><dd><p>
Konqueror is a multiple application created for the KDE desktop. It
acts as web browser, file manager and document viewer. It supports
most common web standards, such as CSS(2), Java applets, JavaScript
and Netscape plug-ins, DOM, and SSL. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.konqueror.org/" target="_top">http://www.konqueror.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.konqueror.html" title="Chapter 13. Konqueror: Browsing the Web">Chapter 13, <i>Konqueror: Browsing the Web</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Opera</span></dt><dd><p>
Opera is a powerful web browser with an optional e-mail client and a
chat module. Opera offers pop-up blocking, RSS feeds, built-in and
customizable searches, a password manager, and tabbed browsing. For
more details see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.opera.com/" target="_top">http://www.opera.com/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.2.2. E-Mail Client / Personal Information Management"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.mail.client"></a>24.2.2. E-Mail Client / Personal Information Management<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.mail.client">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Evolution</span></dt><dd><p>
Evolution is a personal information management application for the
GNOME desktop. It includes e-mail, calendar, and address book
functionalities. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ftp" target="_top">http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ftp</a> or
read <a class="xref" href="cha.gnome.evolution.html" title="Chapter 6. Evolution: E-mailing and Calendaring">Chapter 6, <i>Evolution: E-mailing and Calendaring</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Kontact</span></dt><dd><p>
Kontact is the personal information management suite for the KDE
desktop. It includes e-mail, calendar, address book and Palm sync
functionalities. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.kontact.org/" target="_top">http://www.kontact.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.kontact.html" title="Chapter 5. Kontact: E-Mailing and Calendaring">Chapter 5, <i>Kontact: E-Mailing and Calendaring</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Mozilla Thunderbird</span></dt><dd><p>
Mozilla Thunderbird is the e-mail client of the Mozilla suite. It is
also available for Microsoft Windows and MacOS. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/" target="_top">http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.2.3. Instant Messaging / IRC Clients"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.inst.mess"></a>24.2.3. Instant Messaging / IRC Clients<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.inst.mess">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Empathy</span></dt><dd><p>
Empathy is an instant messenger tool for the GNOME desktop. It
consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a
GNOME client. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://live.gnome.org/Empathy" target="_top">http://live.gnome.org/Empathy</a>
.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Konversation</span></dt><dd><p>
Konversation is the IRC client of the KDE desktop with many
functionalities. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://konversation.kde.org" target="_top">http://konversation.kde.org</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Kopete</span></dt><dd><p>
Kopete is an easy-to-use instant messenger tool supporting many
protocols. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://kopete.kde.org/" target="_top">http://kopete.kde.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.kopete.html" title="Chapter 10. Kopete: Instant Messaging">Chapter 10, <i>Kopete: Instant Messaging</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Pidgin</span></dt><dd><p>
Pidgin (previously Gaim) is a multi-platform instant messaging client
supporting many commonly used instant messaging protocols, allowing
the user to log into various different services from a single
application. For more details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://pidgin.im/" target="_top">http://pidgin.im/</a>
or read <a class="xref" href="cha.gnome.pidgin.html" title="Chapter 11. Instant Messaging with Pidgin">Chapter 11, <i>Instant Messaging with Pidgin</i></a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.2.4. VoIP, Video and Audio Conferencing"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.conferencing"></a>24.2.4. VoIP, Video and Audio Conferencing<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.conferencing">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Ekiga</span></dt><dd><p>
Ekiga (previously GNOMEMeeting) is a free and open source video
conferencing and VoIP application. Ekiga supports both the SIP and
H.323 protocols, and is fully interoperable with Microsoft NetMeeting
and LifeMeeting. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.ekiga.org/" target="_top">http://www.ekiga.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.ekiga.html" title="Chapter 12. Using Voice over IP with Ekiga">Chapter 12, <i>Using Voice over IP with Ekiga</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Skype</span></dt><dd><p>
Skype is an application for several platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac Os
X) that can be used for phone calls over the Internet with a good
sound quality and with end-to-end encryption. When using Skype,
configuring the firewall or router is not necessary. For more
details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.skype.com/" target="_top">http://www.skype.com/</a>. Information on
Skype and openSUSE is available from
<a class="ulink" href="http://en.opensuse.org/Skype_HOWTO" target="_top">http://en.opensuse.org/Skype_HOWTO</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.2.5. FTP Clients"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.ftp"></a>24.2.5. FTP Clients<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.ftp">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">gftp</span></dt><dd><p>
gftp is an FTP client using the GTK toolkit. Its features include
simultaneous downloads, resume of interrupted file transfers, file
transfer queues, download of entire directories, FTP proxy support,
remote directory caching, passive and nonpassive file transfers, and
drag and drop support. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://gftp.seul.org/" target="_top">http://gftp.seul.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.gnome.gftp.html" title="Chapter 15. gFTP: Transferring Data From the Internet">Chapter 15, <i>gFTP: Transferring Data From the Internet</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KBear</span></dt><dd><p>
KBear is a graphical FTP client that can connect to multiple hosts
simultaneously. The user can copy or move files or directories
between the hosts by drag and drop or cut and paste. It also has a
dynamic site database. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbear/" target="_top">http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbear/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div></div><div class="sect1" title="24.3. Multimedia"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sec.linwin.mm"></a>24.3. Multimedia<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.mm">¶</a></span></h2></div></div></div><p>
The following section introduces the most popular multimedia applications
for Linux. Get to know media players, sound editing solutions, and video
editing tools.
</p><div class="table"><a name="id560686"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 24.3. Multimedia Software for Windows and Linux</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table summary="Multimedia Software for Windows and Linux" border="1"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>
<p>
Task
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Windows Application
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Linux Application
</p>
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
<p>
Audio CD Player
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
CD Player, Winamp, Windows Media Player
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
KsCD, Amarok, Grip, Banshee
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
CD Burner
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
K3b
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
CD Ripper
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
WMPlayer
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
KAudioCreator, Sound Juicer
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Audio Player
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Amarok, XMMS, Rhythmbox
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Video Player
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Winamp, Windows Media Player
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Kaffeine, MPlayer, Xine, XMMS, Totem, RealPlayer
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Audio Editor
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
SoundForge, Cooledit, Audacity
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Audacity
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Sound Mixer
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
sndvol32
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
alsamixer, Kmix
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Music Notation
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Finale, SmartScore, Sibelius
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
LilyPond, MusE, Noteedit, Rosegarden
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Video Creator and Editor
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere, Media Studio Pro
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Kino
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
TV Viewer
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
AVerTV, PowerVCR 3.0, CinePlayer DVR
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
xawtv, motv (analog), tvtime, kdetv, zapping, Kaffeine
</p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break"><div class="sect2" title="24.3.1. Media Players"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.audioplay"></a>24.3.1. Media Players<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.audioplay">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Amarok</span></dt><dd><p>
Amarok is a powerful media player for the KDE desktop. It handles
various audio formats and plays streaming audio broadcasts of radio
stations on the Internet. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://amarok.kde.org/" target="_top">http://amarok.kde.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.sound.html#sec.sound.players.amarok" title="19.2.1. Amarok Music Player">Section 19.2.1, “Amarok Music Player”</a>.
</p></dd><dt><a name="Banshee"></a><span class="term">Banshee</span></dt><dd><p>
Banshee is a media player that can encode and decode various
media formats. Banshee can play, import, and burn audio CDs.
For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://banshee-project.org/" target="_top">http://banshee-project.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.banshee.html" title="Chapter 20. Playing and Managing Your Music with Banshee">Chapter 20, <i>Playing and Managing Your Music with Banshee</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><a name="grip"></a><span class="term">Grip</span></dt><dd><p>
Grip is a CD-player and ripper for the GNOME desktop. It has the
ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use
external rippers. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.nostatic.org/grip/" target="_top">http://www.nostatic.org/grip/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Kaffeine</span></dt><dd><p>
Kaffeine is a multimedia application that supports many audio and
video formats. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://kaffeine.kde.org/" target="_top">http://kaffeine.kde.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KsCD</span></dt><dd><p>
KsCD is a CD player application for the KDE desktop. Its user
interface is very similar to that of a normal hardware CD player. For
more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://docs.kde.org/en/3.3/kdemultimedia/kscd/" target="_top">http://docs.kde.org/en/3.3/kdemultimedia/kscd/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">MPlayer</span></dt><dd><p>
MPlayer supports many media formats and can also save all streamed
content to a file. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/" target="_top">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">RealPlayer</span></dt><dd><p>
RealPlayer is a proprietary cross-platform media player by
RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats. For more
details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://uk.real.com/player/" target="_top">http://uk.real.com/player/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Totem</span></dt><dd><p>
Totem is the default multimedia player for the GNOME computer desktop
environment. Totem is fully integrated with GNOME Nautilus. For more
details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://projects.gnome.org/totem/" target="_top">http://projects.gnome.org/totem/</a>
or read <a class="xref" href="cha.gnome.totem.html" title="Chapter 21. Playing Videos with Totem">Chapter 21, <i>Playing Videos with Totem</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Xine</span></dt><dd><p>
Xine is a multimedia player for Linux that supports different
front-end player applications. Another important feature is the
ability to manually correct the synchronization of audio and video
streams. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://xinehq.de/" target="_top">http://xinehq.de/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">XMMS</span></dt><dd><p>
The X Multimedia System 2 (XMMS2) is an audio player for Linux
systems that supports audio and video formats. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page/" target="_top">http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/wiki/Main_Page/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.3.2. CD Burners"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.cd.burn"></a>24.3.2. CD Burners<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.cd.burn">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"> Banshee</span></dt><dd><p>
See above for <a class="xref" href="cha.linwin.html#Banshee">Banshee</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Brasero</span></dt><dd><p>
Brasero is a disc-burning program for the GNOME Desktop allowing
users to burn audio and data CD/DVDs on the fly. For more details,
see <a class="ulink" href="http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/" target="_top">http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.gnome.burn.html" title="Chapter 23. Brasero: Burning CDs and DVDs">Chapter 23, <i>Brasero: Burning CDs and DVDs</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">K3b</span></dt><dd><p>
K3b is a CD and DID authoring application for the KDE desktop
environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a
graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks and
contains a built-in DID ripper. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.k3b.org/" target="_top">http://www.k3b.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.k3b.html" title="Chapter 22. K3b: Burning CDs and DVDs">Chapter 22, <i>K3b: Burning CDs and DVDs</i></a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.3.3. CD Rippers"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.cd.rip"></a>24.3.3. CD Rippers<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.cd.rip">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Grip</span></dt><dd><p>
See above for <a class="xref" href="cha.linwin.html#grip">Grip</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KAudioCreator</span></dt><dd><p>
KAudioCreator is a front-end tool for ripping audio CDs and encoding
WAVE files. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator" target="_top">http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Sound Juicer</span></dt><dd><p>
Sound Juicer is a front-end application to the cdparanoia CD ripping
library. It allows the user to extract audio output from compact
discs and convert it into audio files that a personal computer or
digital audio player can understand and play. It supports ripping to
many audio codecs. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer" target="_top">http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.3.4. Audio Editors"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.audio.edit"></a>24.3.4. Audio Editors<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.audio.edit">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Audacity</span></dt><dd><p>
Audacity is a digital audio editor application. Its cross-platform
allows users to mix tracks, apply effects to them, and export the
results to WAV or Ogg Vorbis. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://audacity.sourceforge.net/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.3.5. Sound Mixers"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.sound.mix"></a>24.3.5. Sound Mixers<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.sound.mix">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">ALSA mixer</span></dt><dd><p>
ALSA mixer is the mixer program for the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA). It is used to configure sound settings and to
adjust the volume. It has an ncurses user interface and does not
require the X Window System. It supports multiple sound cards with
multiple devices. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page" target="_top">http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.3.6. Music Notation"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.music.not"></a>24.3.6. Music Notation<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.music.not">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">LilyPond</span></dt><dd><p>
LilyPond is a music sheet editor. Because the input format is text-
based, the user can work with any text editor to create note sheets.
Users do not need to tackle any formatting or notation issues, like
spacing, line-breaking, or polyphonic collisions. For more details,
see <a class="ulink" href="http://lilypond.org/web/" target="_top">http://lilypond.org/web/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">MusE</span></dt><dd><p>
MusE is at the moment a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and
editing capabilities. The project works on a complete multitrack
virtual studio for Linux. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.muse-sequencer.org/" target="_top">http://www.muse-sequencer.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Noteedit</span></dt><dd><p>
Noteedit is a powerful score editor for Linux. It creates sheets of
notes and exports and import scores to and from many formats. It
features a graphical user interface. For more details,
see<a class="ulink" href="http://noteedit.berlios.de/" target="_top"> http://noteedit.berlios.de/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"> Rosegarden</span></dt><dd><p>
Rosegarden is a free music composition and editing environment. It
features an audio and MIDI sequencer and a score editor. For more
details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://rosegardenmusic.com/" target="_top">http://rosegardenmusic.com/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.3.7. Video Creators and Editors"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.video.creat"></a>24.3.7. Video Creators and Editors<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.video.creat">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Kino</span></dt><dd><p>
Kino is an easy and reliable digital video editor with export to many
formats. The program supports many basic video editing and assembling
tasks. It captures video to disk in Raw DIV, AVI, and Quicktime
formats. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.kinodv.org" target="_top">http://www.kinodv.org</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect2" title="24.3.8. TV Viewers and Editors"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sec.linwin.tv.view"></a>24.3.8. TV Viewers and Editors<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.tv.view">¶</a></span></h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><a name="vle.linwin.xawtv"></a><span class="term">xawtv</span></dt><dd><p>
xawtv is a TV viewer and recorder suite. It supports both analog and
digital audio and video broadcasts using either a TV tuner or a
Satellite receiver card DB-S. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/" target="_top">http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">kdetv</span></dt><dd><p>
kdetv is a TV viewer and recorder application for the KDE desktop
supporting TV using a tuner card. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.kdetv.org" target="_top">http://www.kdetv.org</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div></div><div class="sect1" title="24.4. Graphics"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sec.linwin.graph"></a>24.4. Graphics<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.graph">¶</a></span></h2></div></div></div><a class="indexterm" name="id561694"></a><p>
The following section presents some of the Linux software solutions for
graphics work. These include simple drawing applications as well as
fully-fledged image editing tools and powerful rendering and animation
programs.
</p><div class="table"><a name="id561710"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 24.4. Graphics Software for Windows and Linux</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table summary="Graphics Software for Windows and Linux" border="1"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>
<p>
Task
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Windows Application
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Linux Application
</p>
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
<p>
Simple Graphic Editing
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Microsoft Paint
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
KolourPaint
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Professional Graphic Editing
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Corel PhotoPaint, GIMP
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
GIMP, Krita
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Creating Vector Graphics
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Freehand
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
OpenOffice.org Draw, Inkscape, Dia
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
SVG Editing
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
WebDraw, Freehand, Adobe Illustrator
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Inkscape, Dia, Kivio
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Creating 3D Graphics
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
3D Studio MAX, Maya, POV-Ray, Blender
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
POV-Ray, Blender, KPovmodeler
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Managing Digital Photographs
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Software provided by the camera manufacturer
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
DigiKam, f-spot
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Scanning
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Vuescan
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Vuescan, GIMP
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Image Viewing
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
ACDSee
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
gwenview, gThumb, Eye of Gnome, f-spot
</p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break"><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Blender<a class="indexterm" name="id561979"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Blender is a powerful rendering and animation tool available on many
platforms, including Windows, MacOS, and Linux. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.blender.org/" target="_top">http://www.blender.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Dia<a class="indexterm" name="id562013"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Dia is the Linux equivalent of Visio. It supports many types of
special diagrams, such as network or UML charts. Export formats
include SVG, PNG, and EPS. To support your own custom diagram types,
provide the new shapes in a special XML format. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://projects.gnome.org/dia/" target="_top">http://projects.gnome.org/dia/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">digiKam<a class="indexterm" name="id562049"></a><a class="indexterm" name="id562054"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
digiKam is a smart digital photo management tool for the KDE desktop.
Create albums, add tags to spare you from copying images around
different subdirectories, and eventually export your images to your
own Web site. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.digikam.org/" target="_top">http://www.digikam.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.digicam.html" title="Chapter 17. Managing Your Digital Image Collection with DigiKam">Chapter 17, <i>Managing Your Digital Image Collection with DigiKam</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Eye of Gnome (eog)<a class="indexterm" name="id562094"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Eye of Gnome is an image viewer application for the GNOME desktop. For
more details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://projects.gnome.org/eog/" target="_top">http://projects.gnome.org/eog/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">f-spot<a class="indexterm" name="id562128"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
f-spot is a flexible digital photograph management tool for the GNOME
desktop. It lets you create and manage albums and supports various
export options like HTML pages or the burning of image archives to CD.
You can also use it as an image viewer on the command line. For more
details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://f-spot.org/Main_Page" target="_top">http://f-spot.org/Main_Page</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.gnome.fspot.html" title="Chapter 18. F-Spot: Managing Your Digital Image Collection">Chapter 18, <i>F-Spot: Managing Your Digital Image Collection</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">gThumb<a class="indexterm" name="id562168"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
gThumb is an image viewer, browser and organizer for the GNOME
desktop. It supports the import of your digital images via gphoto2,
allows you to carry out basic transformation and modifications, and
lets you tag your images to create albums matching certain categories.
For more details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Gwenview<a class="indexterm" name="id562204"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Gwenview is a simple image viewer for KDE. It features a folder tree
window and a file list window that provides the easy navigation of
your file hierarchy. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/home/" target="_top">http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/home/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Inkscape<a class="indexterm" name="id562239"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Inkscape is a free SVG editor. Users of Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw,
and Visio can find a similar range of features and a familiar user
interface in Inkscape. Among its features, find SVG-to-PNG export,
layering, transforms, gradients, and grouping of objects. For more
details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.inkscape.org/" target="_top">http://www.inkscape.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Kivio<a class="indexterm" name="id562275"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Kivio is a flow-charting application that integrates into the KOffice
suite. Former users of Visio find a familiar look and feel in Kivio.
For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.koffice.org/kivio/" target="_top">http://www.koffice.org/kivio/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KolourPaint<a class="indexterm" name="id562310"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
KolourPaint is an easy-to-use paint program for the KDE desktop. You
can use it for tasks such as painting or drawing diagrams and editing
screen shots, photos, and icons. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KPovmodeler<a class="indexterm" name="id562345"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
KPovmodeler is a POV-Ray front-end that integrates with the KDE
desktop. KPovmodeler does not require a detailed knowledge of POV-Ray
scripting because it translates the POV-Ray language into an
easy-to-understand tree view. Native POV-Ray scripts can be imported
to KPovmodeler as well. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.kpovmodeler.org" target="_top">http://www.kpovmodeler.org</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Krita</span></dt><dd><p>
Krita is KOffice's answer to Adobe Photoshop and GIMP. It can be
used for pixel-based image creation and editing. Its features include
many of the advanced image editing capabilities you would normally
expect with Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.koffice.org/krita" target="_top">http://www.koffice.org/krita</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">OpenOffice.org Draw </span></dt><dd><p>
See <a class="xref" href="cha.linwin.html#vle.linwin.off.ooo">OpenOffice.org</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">POV-Ray<a class="indexterm" name="id562422"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer) creates three-dimensional,
photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray tracing.
Because there is a Windows version of POV-Ray, it does not take much
for Windows users to switch to the Linux version of this application.
For more details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.povray.org/" target="_top">http://www.povray.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GIMP<a class="indexterm" name="id562458"></a><a class="indexterm" name="id562470"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an open source equivalent to
Adobe Photoshop. It is a raster graphics editor used to process
digital graphics and photographs. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gimp.org/" target="_top">http://www.gimp.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.gimp.html" title="Chapter 16. Manipulating Graphics with GIMP">Chapter 16, <i>Manipulating Graphics with GIMP</i></a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">VueScan<a class="indexterm" name="id562502"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
VueScan is a scanning software available for several platforms. You
can install it parallel to your vendor's scanner software. It supports
the scanner's special hardware, like batch scanning, autofocus,
infrared channels for dust and scratch suppression, and multiscan to
reduce scanner noise in the dark areas of slides. It features simple
and accurate color correction. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html" target="_top">http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect1" title="24.5. System and File Management"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sec.linwin.sys"></a>24.5. System and File Management<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.sys">¶</a></span></h2></div></div></div><p>
The following section provides an overview of Linux tools for system and
file management. Get to know text and source code editors, backup
solutions, and archiving tools.
</p><div class="table"><a name="id562552"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 24.5. System and File Management Software for Windows and Linux</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table summary="System and File Management Software for Windows and Linux" border="1"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>
<p>
Task
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Windows Application
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Linux Application
</p>
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
<p>
File Manager
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Windows Explorer
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Dolphin, Nautilus, Konqueror
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Text Editor
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
NotePad, WordPad, (X)Emacs
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
kate, GEdit, (X)Emacs, vim
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
PDF Creator
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Adobe Distiller
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Scribus
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
PDF Viewer
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Adobe Reader
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Adobe Reader, Evince, Okular, Xpdf
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Text Recognition
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Recognita, FineReader
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
GOCR
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Command Line Pack Programs
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
zip, rar, arj, lha, etc.
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, etc.
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
GUI Based Pack Programs
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
WinZip
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Ark, File Roller
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Hard Disk Partitioner
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
PowerQuest, Acronis, Partition Commander
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
YaST, GNU Parted
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Backup Software
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
ntbackup, Veritas
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
KDar, taper, dump
</p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break"><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Adobe Reader<a class="indexterm" name="id562847"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Adobe Reader for Linux is the exact counterpart of the Windows and Mac
versions of this application. The look and feel on Linux are the same
as on other platforms. The other parts of the Adobe Acrobat suite have
not been ported to Linux. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html" target="_top">http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Ark<a class="indexterm" name="id562883"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Ark is a GUI-based pack program for the KDE desktop and supports
common formats. You can view, select, pack, and unpack single files
within an archive. For more details, read
Section “Displaying, Decompressing, and Creating Archives” (Chapter 2, <i>Working with Your Desktop</i>, ↑KDE User Guide).
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Dolphin</span></dt><dd><p>
Dolphin is the default file manager for KDE 4. Dolphin offers several
view modes, file previews and split views. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://dolphin.kde.org/" target="_top">http://dolphin.kde.org/</a> or read
Section “Using Dolphin File Manager” (Chapter 2, <i>Working with Your Desktop</i>, ↑KDE User Guide).
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">dump</span></dt><dd><p>
The dump package contains both dump and restore. dump examines files
in a file system, determines which ones need to be backed up, and
copies those files to a specified disk, tape, or other storage medium.
The restore command performs the inverse function of dump—it can
restore a full backup of a file system. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://dump.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://dump.sourceforge.net/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Evince<a class="indexterm" name="id562966"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Evince is a document viewer for PDF and PostScript formats for the
GNOME desktop. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/" target="_top">http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">File Roller<a class="indexterm" name="id563000"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
File Roller is a GUI-based pack program for the GNOME desktop. It
provides features similar to Ark's. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/home.html" target="_top">http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/home.html</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GEdit<a class="indexterm" name="id563034"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
GEdit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop. It provides
features similar to Kate's. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/" target="_top">http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GNU Parted<a class="indexterm" name="id563065"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
GNU Parted is a command line tool for creating, deleting, resizing,
checking, and copying partitions and the file systems on them. If you
need to create space for new operating systems, use this tool to
reorganize disk usage and copy data between different hard disks. For
more details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/" target="_top">http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GOCR<a class="indexterm" name="id563097"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
GOCR is an OCR (optical character recognition) tool. It converts
scanned images of text into text files. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://jocr.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://jocr.sourceforge.net/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">gzip, tar, bzip2<a class="indexterm" name="id563128"></a><a class="indexterm" name="id563136"></a><a class="indexterm" name="id563145"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
There are plenty of packaging programs for reducing disk usage. In
general, they differ only in their pack algorithm. Linux can also
handle the packaging formats used on Windows. <span class="command"><strong>bzip2</strong></span>
is a bit more efficient than <span class="command"><strong>gzip</strong></span>, but needs more
time, depending on the pack algorithm. <span>For more
details about <span class="command"><strong>gzip</strong></span> and <span class="command"><strong>tar</strong></span>,
refer to Section “File Administration” (Chapter 7, <i>Shell Basics</i>, ↑Start-Up)</span>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Kate</span></dt><dd><p>
Kate is a module of the KDE suite. It has the ability to open several
files at once either locally or remotely. With syntax highlighting,
project file creation, and external scripts execution, it is a perfect
tool for a programmer. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.kate-editor.org/" target="_top">http://www.kate-editor.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KDar<a class="indexterm" name="id563218"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
KDar stands for KDE disk archiver and is a hardware-independent backup
solution. KDar uses catalogs (unlike tar), so it is possible to
extract a single file without reading the whole archive and it is also
possible to create incremental backups. KDar can split an archive into
multiple slices and trigger the burning of a data CD or DVD for each
slice. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://kdar.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://kdar.sourceforge.net/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Konqueror<a class="indexterm" name="id563251"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Konqueror is a file manager that can also be used as a Web browser,
document and image viewer, and CD ripper. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.konqueror.org/" target="_top">http://www.konqueror.org/</a> or read
<a class="xref" href="cha.konqueror.html" title="Chapter 13. Konqueror: Browsing the Web">Chapter 13, <i>Konqueror: Browsing the Web</i></a> to learn about Konqueror's Web
browsing functions.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Nautilus</span></dt><dd><p>
Nautilus is the default file manager of the GNOME desktop. It can be
used to create folders and documents, display and manage your files
and folders, run scripts, write data to a CD, and open URI locations.
For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/" target="_top">http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/</a> or read
Section “Managing Folders and Files with Nautilus” (Chapter 2, <i>Working with Your Desktop</i>, ↑GNOME User Guide).
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Okular</span></dt><dd><p>
Okular is the document viewer for KDE 4 which is replaces KPDF. Apart
from PDF files, Okular allows you to view a great number of file
formats. Its functionality can be easily embedded in other
applications. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://okular.kde.org/" target="_top">http://okular.kde.org/</a> or read
Chapter <i>Viewing PDF Files and Other Documents with Okular</i> (↑KDE User Guide).
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">taper<a class="indexterm" name="id563343"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Taper is a backup and restore program that provides a friendly user
interface to allow backup and restoration of files to and from a tape
drive. Conversely, files can be backed up to archive files.
Recursively selected directories are supported. For more details, see
at <a class="ulink" href="http://taper.sourceforge.net/" target="_top">http://taper.sourceforge.net/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">vim<a class="indexterm" name="id563375"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
vim (vi improved) is a program similar to the text editor vi. Users
may need time to adjust to vim, because it distinguishes between
command mode and insert mode. The basic features are the same as in
all text editors. vim offers some unique options, like macro
recording, file format detection and conversion, and multiple buffers
in a screen. For more details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.vim.org/" target="_top">http://www.vim.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GNU Emacs and XEmacs</span></dt><dd><p>
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time
display editor. XEmacs is based on GNU Emacs. Both offer nearly the
same functionality with minor differences. Used by experienced
developers, they are highly extensible through the Emacs Lisp
language. They support many languages, like Russian, Greek, Japanese,
Chinese, and Korean. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.xemacs.org/" target="_top">http://www.xemacs.org/</a> and
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html" target="_top">http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Xpdf<a class="indexterm" name="id563436"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Xpdf is lean PDF viewing suite for Linux and Unix-like platforms. It
includes a viewer application and some export plug-ins for PostScript
or text formats. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/" target="_top">http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/</a>.
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="sect1" title="24.6. Software Development"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sec.linwin.swd"></a>24.6. Software Development<span class="permalink"><a alt="Permalink" title="Copy Permalink" href="#sec.linwin.swd">¶</a></span></h2></div></div></div><a class="indexterm" name="id563477"></a><p>
This section introduces Linux IDEs, toolkits, development tools, and
versioning systems for professional software development.
</p><div class="table"><a name="id563492"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 24.6. Development Software for Windows and Linux</b></p><div class="table-contents"><table summary="Development Software for Windows and Linux" border="1"><colgroup><col><col><col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>
<p>
Task
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Windows Application
</p>
</th><th>
<p>
Linux Application
</p>
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
<p>
Integrated Development Environments
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Borland C++, Delphi, Visual Studio, .NET
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
KDevelop, Eric, Eclipse, MonoDevelop, Anjuta
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Toolkits
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
MFC, Qt, GTK+
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Qt, GTK+
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Compilers
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
VisualStudio
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
GCC
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Debugging Tools
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Visual Studio Debugger
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
GDB, Valgrind
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
GUI Design
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Visual Basic, Visual C++
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Glade, Qt Designer
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td>
<p>
Versioning Systems
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
Clearcase, Perforce, SourceSafe
</p>
</td><td>
<p>
CVS, Subversion
</p>
</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class="table-break"><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">Anjuta<a class="indexterm" name="id563710"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Anjuta is an IDE for GNOME/GTK+ application development. It includes
an editor with automated formatting, code completion, and
highlighting. As well as GTK+, it supports Perl, Pascal, and Java
development. A GDB-based debugger is also included. For more details
see <a class="ulink" href="http://anjuta.sourceforge.net" target="_top">http://anjuta.sourceforge.net</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">CVS<a class="indexterm" name="id563745"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is one of the most important version
control systems for open source. It is a front-end to the Revision
Control System (RCS) included in the standard Linux distributions. For
more details, see <a class="ulink" href="http://ximbiot.com/cvs/" target="_top">http://ximbiot.com/cvs/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Eclipse<a class="indexterm" name="id563780"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development
environments that can be extended with custom plug-ins. The base
distribution also contains a full-featured Java development
environment. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">http://www.eclipse.org</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Eric<a class="indexterm" name="id563816"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Eric is an IDE optimized for Python and Python-Qt development. For
more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html" target="_top">http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GCC<a class="indexterm" name="id563850"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
GCC is a compiler collection with front-ends for various programming
languages. Check out a complete list of features and find extensive
documentation at <a class="ulink" href="http://gcc.gnu.org" target="_top">http://gcc.gnu.org</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GDB<a class="indexterm" name="id563884"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
GDB is a debugging tool for programs written in various programming
languages. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html" target="_top">http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Glade<a class="indexterm" name="id563919"></a>
</span></dt><dd><p>
Glade is a user interface builder for GTK+ and GNOME development. As
well as GTK+ support, it offers support for C, C++, C#, Perl, Python,
Java, and others. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://glade.gnome.org/" target="_top">http://glade.gnome.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">GTK+</span></dt><dd><p>
GTK+ is a multi platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. It is used for all GNOME applications, GIMP, and
several others. GTK+ has been designed to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Originally it was written for GIMP, hence
the name <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">GIMP Toolkit.</span>”</span> For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.gtk.org" target="_top">http://www.gtk.org</a>. Language bindings for GTK+ are
summarized under
<a class="ulink" href="http://gtk.org/features.html#LanguageBindings" target="_top">http://gtk.org/features.html#LanguageBindings</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">KDevelop</span></dt><dd><p>
KDevelop allows you to write programs for different languages (C/C++,
Python, Perl, etc.). It includes a documentation browser, a source
code editor with syntax highlighting, a GUI for the compiler, and much
more. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.kdevelop.org" target="_top">http://www.kdevelop.org</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">MonoDevelop</span></dt><dd><p>
MonoDevelop is an open source integrated development environment for
the Linux platform, primarily targeted for the development of software
that uses both Mono and Microsoft .NET framework. MonoDevelop
integrates features similar to that of Eclipse and Microsoft's Visual
Studio such as Intellisense, source control integration, and an
integrated GUI and Web designer. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.monodevelop.com/" target="_top">http://www.monodevelop.com/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Qt</span></dt><dd><p>
Qt is a program library for developing applications with graphical
user interfaces. It allows you to develop professional programs
rapidly. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://trolltech.com" target="_top">http://trolltech.com</a>. Language bindings for Qt
development are summarized under
<a class="ulink" href="http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/" target="_top">http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Qt Designer</span></dt><dd><p>
Qt Designer is a user interface and form builder for Qt and KDE
development. It can run as part of the KDevelop IDE or in stand-alone
mode. QtDesigner can be run under Windows and even integrates into the
Visual Studio development suite. For more details see
<a class="ulink" href="http://trolltech.com/products/qt/designer.html" target="_top">http://trolltech.com/products/qt/designer.html</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Subversion</span></dt><dd><p>
Subversion does the same thing CVS does but has major enhancements,
like moving, renaming, and attaching meta information to files and
directories. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://subversion.tigris.org/" target="_top">http://subversion.tigris.org/</a>.
</p></dd><dt><span class="term">Valgrind</span></dt><dd><p>
Valgrind is a suite of programs for debugging and profiling x86
applications. For more details, see
<a class="ulink" href="http://valgrind.org/" target="_top">http://valgrind.org/</a>.
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