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Useful free software

Here is a small list of some of the free software that I use intensively. Most of these computer programs are distributed under the GNU licenss, which means that one can freely modify and distribute them as soon as credits and sources are distributed together with executables. This ensures a good portability for these programs. Indeed different architectures and/or operating systems can be used together with these programs.

Amaya Amaya is an HTML browser and editor. It is the W3C implementation of the HTML standard and therefore it should be considered as the reference for HTML. Although the browsing feature seems painfully slow, it can be useful to test a website against HTML standard conformance. As an example, I have found a lot of HTML bugs in my pages using Amaya. However, even the buggy pages were properly displayed using Netscape or Internet Explorer.

If you only want to use browsing feature, try to activate the &lquo; mini-browser &rquo; option in the Special/Preferences/Profiles menu.

C.V.S Concurrent Version System allows you to develop large programs
Cygnus Cygwin allows you to use unix C sources and compile them under Windows, using an emulation DLL. This product is designed to be use together with gcc and gdb .
Emacs Emacs is an editor that includes several features very helpful for developing code or shell scripts. It is intended to browse directly the files and it is interfaced with programs such as CVS, diff, make, gdb, etc.
Gcc-Gdb Gcc and Gdb are the GNU C compiler and debugger that are maintained by RedHat/Cygnus.
Ghostscript  
Linux Linux is the Linus Thorvald Unix like operating system for IBM PC. I use this operating system for a long time now, and I believe that it should be considered as an alternative to Windows for lots of application. The biggest reason for using Linux is that it permits you to understand what a computer really is ;-)

Opera Opera is a web browser that appears to me really fast under Linux.
VTcl VTcl is a good way to begin in Tcl/Tk GUI toolkit. This program is entirely written in Tcl/Tk and allows to build rapidly a graphic frontend to a command line program.
Wine Wine is a Microsoft Windows emulator for Linux. It can be useful to test whether a Windows application behaves nicely or use hacking features of Windows.
XFig XFig is a drawing program under X-window system that can do pretty nice work.
XTel XTel is an emulator for french Minitel terminal.
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Amaya
C.V.S
Cygnus
Emacs
Gcc-Gdb
Ghostscript
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Linux
Opera
VTcl
Wine
XFig
XTel

Florent Chabaud
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