Re: Welcome to Debian Science!
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:59:13PM +1000, Helen Faulkner wrote:
>
> Maybe a useful start would be for people to write and tell us what packages they
> regularly use in their research.
My contribution (physics research):
- For C++ code: g++, gsl
Auxiliary profiling tools occasionally used: memprof, mpatrol, gprof
- Editor: xemacs
- Graphics: gnuplot (preliminary viewing from Octave)
xmgrace (final output)
xfig ("hand made" figures)
- Numerical calculation/graphics: Octave
- Document preparation: latex, pdflatex
Viewers: gv, xpdf
Very useful packages:
- a0poster (for creating posters)
- textpos (for positioning text ---I use it for posters)
- prosper (for presentation slides)
- OpenOffice.org when I have to fill funding project forms available only
in doc format :-(. I don't think I use OpenOffice.org for anything else.
- Other software I've occasionally used:
blitz++ (numerical library)
matpack (numerical library, not in Debian)
epsmerge (to merge eps files in a single one, not in Debian)
plplot (plotting library)
Regards,
Victor
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