User:JohnWS/Software


 * Ubuntu Linux - A popular Linux distribution - especially good for new users
 * Gentoo Linux - A source based Linux distribution
 * Awesome - A dynamic floating and tiling window manager
 * Spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager
 * Stumpwm - A manual tiling window manager written in lisp
 * 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
 * LibreOffice - Open source office suite (fork of openoffice)
 * Gnumeric - a spreadsheet (better math support than openoffice)
 * Inkscape - a drawing program based on SVG
 * Scribus - a desktop publishing program. Can also be used 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
 * - webkit browser with good security features
 * Firefox - Mozilla's open source web browser
 * IceCat - GNU free software version of Firefox (no longer maintained)
 * 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