Linux

Many of our faculty prefer the Linux desktop environment over Windows or the Mac OS. Here are some recommendations for a "standard" linux configuration to support Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics and Computational Science.

Distribution:

• [Ubuntu]

Office Suite

• Open Office 3.0.0
• Evolution (Exchange Client)

Technical editor

• emacs

TEX Support

• Tex Live
• auctex (TEX package for emacs)

Programming Languages

• Python
• Java
• gcc

Computational Software

• Sage (includes Singular and R)
• Octave
• CoCoA
• Macaulay 2

Document Viewing

• Postscript Viewer: gv
• PDF viewers: acroread, xpdf

Other Tools

• Software Project Management: Eclipse IDE
• Drawing: xfig
• Image editing: gimp