ESSENTIAL SOFTWARE for PHYSICS RESEARCH

　

Plotting and Editing GNU software

• GNU plot (You can plot any data) official web site www.gnuplot.org and you can get from ftp://ftp.gnuplot.org/pub/gnuplot/
• Ghostview and Ghostscript Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
• Gnu Package  http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/index.html
• abiword is a gnu word processor http://www.abisource.com/
• OpenOffice ( better than M$ office ) http://openoffice.org
• Emacs page in GNU web http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html and get it from
  Emacs lisp archive http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/elisp-intro.html
• Xemacs http://www.xemacs.org
• Xfig for drawing schematics in the Linux

Digitizing software

• WinDig 2.5 is a free data digitizer for Windows. Very useful to get back curves and points from scanned images http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chifi/cpb/windig.html

TEX

• Miktex (Windows 95/NT free tex compiler) http://www.miktex.org
• Texing center (Windows Tex editor) http://www.texniccenter.org/
• Xemacs for windows http://www.xemacs.org/Download/index.html
• Winedt (shareware Tex editor which has Greek and math GUI) http://www.winedt.com
• Revtex (Physical Review Tex, can be downloaded from APS site)
• AIP style manual (4^th ed) http://www.aip.org/pubservs/style/4thed/toc.html

Linux General OS

• Fedora core project http://fedora.redhat.com/
• Tucows Linux  http://marshallnet.linux.tucows.com/index.html
• Linux org  http://www.linux.org/
• Linux Document  http://www.linuxdoc.org/
• Redhat 9.0 http://www.redhat.com/
• Sunsite ftp://sunsite.unc.edu
• Mandrake http://www.mandrake.com