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Here are some essentials free tools available from internet. OS Compilers Language Tutorials Office LaTeX Security Audio/Video Players Audio Picture Video Codecs Others |
Operating SystemUbuntu [FR] A Debian based linuxOpen Suse A Suse based linux Cent OS A Red Hat based linux UNetbootin Install your Linux from a USB key CygWin A Linux-like environment for Windows C / C++MS Visual 2005 Express EditionGCC - GNU Compiler Collection (Linux only) MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows (Win32 port of GCC) Dev-C++ GSL - GNU Scientific Library LCC - win32 ProgrammingProgrammers Notepad (Windows)NEdit (Linux) Scicoslab (incuding Scilab) formerly Scilab GTK TCL / TK Python Perl Java 2 SE (v 1.4.2) / Java 2 SE (v 1.5.0) MySQL (v 4.1) EasyPHP to develop PHP code with Windows OfficeOpera The best web browserFirefox Thunderbird OOo - OpenOffice.org and tutorials in french Extended PDF and a tutorial in french PDF Blender merges PDF documents The PDF Toolkit command line tool for PDF files GhostScript / GhostView 7zip (Windows) FileZilla FTP client Cobian Backup 8 Backup software SyncBack Freeware V3.2.14 Files synchronization software JKDefrag a disk defragment utility Gparted creates partitions on your hard drive Ultimate Boot CD you need this bootable CD in case of crash LaTeXGhostScript / GhostViewMikTeX LaTeX for Windows TEXnic Center LaTeX IDE for Windows TEXaide : Not free anymore. WMF2EPS Window metafile converter Official WinFIG website
- XFIG User Manual
- A complete library for XFIG or WinFIG - FRITS an electronical symbols library for Xfig. Fig tools fig2eps and fig2pdf scripts for Linux Fig tools fig2eps script for Windows |
SecurityAvast, AVG Free Edition and Antivir free anti-virusAd-Aware SE and Spybot S&D free anti-spywares Zone Alarm or KerioFree firewalls for Windows XP TutorialsCours,tutoriels et documentations... (French)Numerical Recipes in C Here are some resouces in french for LaTeX : Audio / Video playersVideoLAN VLC media player (do not use any codec)WINAMP A great multimedia player / organizer for Windows Zinf The GNU Open-source audio player / organizer Audio toolsCDex Extract and convert CD tracks in various formats (MP3, Ogg, VQF, AAC, Wav, ...)Rarewares Free audio tools converters Audacity A sound editor Kristal Audio EngineA free multi-track sequencer Picture/Photography toolsthe GIMP The ultimate GNU Image Manipulation Program
"Grokking the GIMP" is THE book you have to read about the GIMP [in english] [en français]
PTAssember : Not free anymore. Terragen Landscapes creation Blender 3D graphics creation Chaoscope 3D strange attractor rendering software Video toolsCamStudio Make video tutorials easilySlide Show Movie Maker Virtual Dub CodecsOgg Vorbis The free open source audio codec (better than MP$)Lame MP3 Codec The free open source MP3 audio codec (requiered by Audacity or Virtual Dub) Xvid The free open source MPEG 4 video codec DivX Codec The most popular video Tsunami Mpeg Encoder converts video files to MPEG1 (VCD) or MPEG2 (SVCD and DVD) OthersVisible Earth - Earth's City Lights A great wallpaperCDisplay Comic Reader to read comic books on your PC Semantic Atlas French-English dictionnary from CNRS Publish or Perish Research impact software (using Google Scholar database) |