The following list is of software which we really like having on our CDS machines.
Standard UNIX software
- locate (and cron job that updates the slocate database)
- emacs
- xdiff or xxdiff
- perl w/ tcl/tk modules
- python
- firefox
- matlab
- ssh (not an old version)
- rsync
- svn (something recent - needs to do ssl)
- gimp
- less
lv (a pager program like less, but shorter name, saves you key strokes
- screen (a multiplexer of terminal screens)
- cc
- gcc
- pdf viewer (acroread)
- pdftk (or at least pdfjoin and pdfsplit)
- ps2pdf
- some postscript viewer
- eps-tools (epstopdf)
- expect
- bzip2 and gzip and gunzip
- free
- env
- eval
- exec
- find
- grep
- gawk
- sed
- wget
- sudo
- read
- echo
- date
- df
- du
- wc
- lpr
- lpq
- lprm
- ls
- latex (tetex or other implementation)
- dvips
- ff
- kill
- pgrep
- pkill
- alias
- f77
- ping
CDS/Homebrew Software
- DTT
- Dataviewer / Grace
- mDV (matlab files)
- ligoDV (matlab files)
- MEDM
- EPICS
EPICS extensions (e.g. StripTool & probe)
- ligotools
