Some of my favorite free software

My own

• Dream Diary
  A general-purpose diary application that supports styled (unicode) text and images. Uses strong encryption to save its database (Blowfish). Screenshot
  • Unix version
    This is compatible with Linux and all of the BSD’s. It includes a standalone application for AMD64 Linux.
  • Windows version
• Python program to compute the Steenrod coalgebra structure of a simplex

Other people’s

• LyX — a user-friendly front end to LaTeX
• JSesh — a free Hieroglyphic word-processor written in Java
• Trelby (free Screenwriting software)
• OpenSimulator virtual reality software
  • Free viewer for OpenSim regions
  • OSgrid — A simulated world
    Eridani (the author’s region)
    Hypergrid address: hg.osgrid.org:80:Eridani
• Symbolic mathematical software
  • Maxima Computer Algebra System
  • wxMaxima, a user interface for Maxima:
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    A book on using wxMaxima and other free software.
  • SAGE — Symbolic mathematical software
• Interactive Fiction
• The ADA Programming Language

System software

• Debian Linux
• FreeBSD
  An open source Unix-like operating system
• OpenBSD
  The world’s most secure open source operating system
• NetBSD
  The world’s most portable open source operating system

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Justin R. Smith