Software Packages

This page contains information and links to software packages for different purposes.

Open Source

SourceForge - home of many open source projects

Tigris - home of many open source projects

The Open Source Page - everything about open source software

IBM developerWorks - open source software from IBM

IBM alphaWorks - open source software from IBM

OpenWatcom - the Watcom C/C++/FORTRAN Compiler for free, including full source code

GNU Software

Free Software Foundation (FSF) - the home of the GNU project, the GNU EMACS editor and the GNU C/C++ compiler have probably been the most widely known GNU software products, but there is now much more available like Ada, Objective C or Fortran compilers, utilities and games like GNU Chess
GCC - GNU Compiler suite (C, C++, Fortran, AAda)
DJGPP GNU C/C++ Compiler - DOS port of the GNU Compiler suite
XEmacs - a window oriented editor derived from GNU Emacs, available for many platforms, the two implementations GNU Emacs and XEmacs have deviated from each other and are maintained and developed by different teams

Configuration Management and Version Control

CVS -
Subversion -
Tortoise - CVS front end
WIN CVS - CVS front end
ClearCase - IBM Rational ClearCase
Visual Source Safe -
Perforce -
MKS Source Integrity -
Razor -

Supporting tools

ActiveState - provides Windows binaries of all these tools
Python -
TCL/TK -
PHP -
Perl -

MP3

MP3'Tech -
WinAmp -
mpg123 - Fast MP3 Player for Linux and UNIX sysstems
MP3Car.com -

Office Software

OpenOffice - StarOffice as Open Source
KOffice - the office package for KDE

Source Code Browsing and Documentation

WWW-Browser, FTP-Clients

Netscape Communicator - from Netscape Communications Corporation (now part of AOL), based on NCSA Mosaic, although under some circumstances not very stable (Navigator hangs under Windows, produces memory and resource leaks, Composer crashes often, ...), there are also some differences with the W3 HTML standard and some Netscape specific non-standardized HTML extensions
Microsoft Internet Explorer - from Microsoft Corporation, based on NCSA Mosaic, more stable and more W3 HTML standard conformant compared with Netscape Communicator, although not as user friendly, Internet Explorer 5 is XML capable
Amaya - the reference WWW browser of the W3 consortium, freely available with complete source code
Lynx -
Opera -
Mozilla - the freely available source code for tthe Mozilla browser based on Netscape Navigator, under constant development
WS FTP - FTP client

If you want to find out something about the history of the Internet look at w3history - The History of the World Wide Web..

Server (WWW, FTP)

ServerWatch -
Jigsaw - the reference WWW server of the W3 consortium, completely programmed in Java, one of the best examples for the use of Java
Xitami - popular free WWW server from Imatix, including portable C Source code for many platforms, Xitami is extremely fast with very low overhead and absolutely reliable, the Win32 executable versions run out-of-the-box and there are absolutely no problems the compiling the source code - great!
Apache - very popular free WWW server, includinng portable C Source code
WarFTP - FTP daemon

HTML Editors

See also the HTML section on the Programming Languages page.

tsWebEditor -
Evrsoft 1st Page 2000 - a great freely available HTML editor with very good editing and previewing capabilities, extensive help support about everything concerning HTML, Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS), syntax check [in general a very good tool, but it needs some more development effort to make it more stable and reliable!]
Microsoft FrontPage - a very good and powerful HTML editor and web site development tool
Netscape Composer - part of the Netscape Communicator

Graph and Chart Drawing

GoVisual Diagram Editor (GDE) Community Edition - a freely available tool for the automaatic layout and displaying of complex graphs
aiSee Graph Visualization - commercial tool for the automatic layoout and displaying of complex graphs
uDraw(Graph) - previously The Graph Visualization System daVinci, later daVinci Presenter
Graph Drawing -
DOT and DOTTY -
Graphviz -
Graphlet -
Automatic Graph Drawing - also Design, Analyse, Implementierung und experimentelle Anwendung von Algorithmen zum Zeichnen von Graphen -
VCG Overview -
Graph Drawing Tools -
GVU: Software Visualization -
Practical Reusable UNIX Software -
The Star Diagram Project -
Dia -

GUI-Tools

QT from Troll Tech - the QT windows GUI class library for Linux (KDE) and Windows
Amulet Project Home Page -
XVT SOFTWARE INC. -
Zinc Software Incorporated Home Page -

WinHelp

Helpmaster - great source of info and tools about WWindows Help
Winhelp and HTMLHELP authoring resources -
Richard Hendricks' Windows Help File (WinHelp and HTMLHelp) Authoring Web Site -

Postscript

POSTSCRIPT and GHOSTSCRIPT Net Resources - index, information, software, and links
Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview - free portable PostScript and PDF viewer and converter, comes with complete source code (FTP access: Directory of /ghost/aladdin)
ghostscript.com -
Ghostgum Software -

Adobe PDF

Adobe - Adobe Acrobat Reader and Distiller to read and generate documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF)
Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview - free portable PostScript and PDF viewer and converter, comes with complete source code
Internet Distiller -

XTree, ZTree

The filemanager Xtree and its follow-ups Xtree Pro and Xtree Gold are legendary 16 bit MS-DOS text mode programs from the 80's when PC's started. With more than 3 million sold copies Xtree is one of the most successful utility programs for MS-DOS. If you have ever used it in these good old days and learned about its advantages you would not miss it. Unfortunately, Xtree disappeared in the beginning of the 90's because the XTree company was sold and the new owner, Central Point Software, stopped the development. With the upcoming graphical user interfaces like Windows there seemed to be no need for such an "old fashioned" text mode tool. There was also Xtree for Windows, but it wasn't very successful. On the other side, on 32 bit Windows 95 / NT with long filenames, the original DOS 16 bit Xtree was only of minor use. But during the late 90's some people remembered the advantages of Xtree and several Xtree clones came up for Windows 95, OS/2 and also for Unix/Linux.

Homepage of Jeffrey C. Johnson - the inventor of the original Xtree program who gives some insight in the beginning and the history of Xtree
Ztree - a 32 bit Xtree clone for Windows 95 / 98 / NT (ZtreeWin) and OS/2 (ZtreeBold)
Xtree Fan Page - contains the whole history of Xtree and all of its clones, together with links to many versions, tips and tricks
Ytree - an Xtree like filemanager for Unix

LEGO MindStorms

LEGO MindStorms is a robotics construction kit with a microprocessor controller and is based on the LEGO construction kit, it was jointly developed together with the Massachussetts Institute of Technology MIT.

LEGO MindStorms - the official LEGO MindStorms Homepage, contains the LEGO MindStorms SDK and much more
RCX internals - useful information about the programmable microcontroller from LEGO MindStorms
LEGO MindStorms internals - large list of links and useful information about LEGO MindStorms
LEGOLab - scientifical use of LEGO MindStorms att the University of Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Computer Science
MIT's Autonomous Robot Design Competition - with LEGO

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