The toolkits developed by the GNU project are comprehensive. The
following table lists just some of the 200 or more packages that you
can obtain freely from
http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html:
| Package |
Description |
|---|
| |
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| aspell |
An interactive spell checker that suggests `near
misses' to replace unrecognised words. |
|---|
| awk |
A powerful yet simple pattern-based scripting language. |
|---|
| bash |
The Bourne Again SHell is compatible with the
traditional Unix sh and offers many extensions found in
csh and ksh. It is similar in concept to DOS. |
|---|
| binutils |
Consists of programs used to assemble, link, and
manipulate binary and object files. It is used in conjunction with a
compiler and various libraries to build programs for Linux. |
|---|
| chess |
A state-of-the-art chess-playing program. |
|---|
| cvs |
The Concurrent Versioning System used for version control
and management of software projects. |
|---|
| emacs |
An extensible, customisable real-time display
editor and computing environment. This editor is widely used by
developers and is more than just an editor. Emacs is capable of
reading email, of providing integrated development environments, and
spreadsheets, to name just a few. |
|---|
| enscript |
An ASCII file formatter generating PostScript for
printing of text documents on PostScript printers. |
|---|
| evince |
A document viewer for Gnome with support for
viewing pdf, ps, djvu,
tiff, and dvi files. |
|---|
| fileutils |
File management utilities. |
|---|
| findutils |
The `find' utility is frequently used both interactively
and in shell scripts to find files which match
certain criteria and perform arbitrary operations on them. |
|---|
| gcc |
A free compiler collection for C, C++, Objective C and
other languages. This compiler is used widely, on multiple
platforms, including MS/Windows. |
|---|
| gdb |
A source-level debugger for C, C++ and Fortran. |
|---|
| ghostscript |
An interpreter for the Postscript and PDF
graphics languages. |
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