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This page includes information about both libre and non-libre software, rather than having it fragmented in a ton of separate pages across the wiki. == Required Software Matrix Libre Applications =<table border="1"><tr>See [[Annotation]] for a more in depth explanation about annotation software.<th> Class<==== [http://freshmeat.net/projects/th><th> Proprietary Softwarejarnal Jarnal] - Java based PDF annotator ====<==== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/th><th> VMOkular Okular] - KDE Document viewer ====<==== [http://xournal.sourceforge.net/th><th> WINEXournal] - GTK+ inking application ====<==== [https://th><th> Native Linux Versiongnuradio.org GNURadio] - "Provides signal processing blocks to implement software-defined radios and signal-processing systems." ======== Used by the Hume Center for research ======== [[LaTeX]] - Markup & typesetting system for producing high-quality documents ====<* The [https:/th><th> Equivalent FOSS</th><th> Notes<github.com/josephwright/th><beamer Beamer] is used to create slides/tr>posters<tr>* See [[LaTeX#Example_LaTeX_documents]] for example documents<td> Multiple</td><td> ==== [http://www.dyknowmono-project.com/ DyKnowMono]- Cross platform .NET compiler and runtime ====<* [http://www.monodevelop.com/td><td> yesMonoDevelop] GUI for Mono</td><td style="background=== [http: rgb(154, 63, 32) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; //pygments.org/ Pygments] -mozSource code pretty-background-clipprinter that outpus to many formats ======== [https: border; //www.r-mozproject.org/ R] -backgroundThe programming language for statistics ======== [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spim.html SPIM] -originMIPS R2000 & R3000 simulator for educational purposes ======== [https: padding; //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox VirtualBox] -mozVirtualization software ======== [https://libvirt.org/ LibVirt] -backgroundAPI for manaing virtual machines under QEMU, KVM, or XEN ====* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Machine_Manager virt-inlinemanager] is a GUI for libvirt==== [http://xmonad.org Xmonad] -policyHaskell based windows manager ====* [https: continuous;"> Garbage</td><td> no/linx.li/ackthetxmonad.txt Ackthet's] configuration</td><td> ==== [http://upbluej.ucsd.eduorg/ Ubiquitous PresenterBlueJ] (Free - Simple Java IDE ======== [librehttps://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete Clang Complete] - Popular Clang addon for academic use)vim ====<==== [https:/td><td> Get through installation under WINE by installing /www.NET yourselfgnu.<org/software/td><screen/tr>Screen] - Popular terminal multiplexer ====<tr>==== [[w:tmux|tmux]] - Popular terminal multiplexer ====* [[.tmux.conf|User .tmux.conf configs]]<td> Multiple<==== [http://xoscope.sourceforge.net/td><td> Xoscope] - Oscilloscope program ======== [http://enxournal.wikipediasourceforge.orgnet/ Xournal] - Notetaking/wikiSketching/MATLAB MATLABJournal App ======== [[Qucs]]- "Quite Universal Circuit Simulator" ==== <==== [https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtoctave.berlios/td><td> yesQtOctave] - GUI for Octave ====</td><td style=="background: gold none repeat scroll 0% 0%; Non-mozlibre Applications =={| class='wikitable'|-background! Software! License! WINE?! VM?! Native Linux?! Equivalent FOSS! Notes|-clip| [https: border; -moz-//www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html MATLAB]| style="background-origin: padding; -moz-LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background-inline-policy: continuous;gold"> | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&amp;iId=49 Gold]</td><td> yes| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes</td><td> | [[QtOctave]], [http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ FreeMat] (stale?), [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave] (console), [http://www.scilab.org/ Scilab] (slightly different not syntax but comes with a conversion script-compatible), [http://sagemath.org/ Sage] (?)</td><td> | [http://computing.ece.vt.edu/wiki/Matlab#Using_the_MPI_parallel_toolbox Parallelize number crunching] using the [http://computing.ece.vt.edu/wiki/Main_Page CVL]|-| [https://www.dyknow. ENGE 1104 requires functions not in Octavecom/FreeMat.DyKnow]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: LightCoral" | Garbage| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No<| [https://td><up.ucsd.edu/tr>Ubiquitous Presenter] (Free for academic use), completely free version a work in progress<tr>| Contains malware.<td> Multiple|-</td><td> | [http://www.microsoftni.com/visualstudio/en-us/defaultshop/labview.mspx Visual C++ 2008html LabView] (| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| | style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes|| |-| [http://www.microsoft.com/expressvisualstudio/vcen-us/ Expressdefault.mspx Microsoft Visual C++])</td><td> yes</td><td | style="background: rgb(154, 63, 32) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background-inline-policy: continuous;LightCoral"> | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=11210 Garbage]</td><td> no| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No</td><td> | [http://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC] + [http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/ GDB] + [http://valgrind.org/ Valgrind], [http://www.kdevelop.org/ KDevelop]<, [http://td><td><www.eclipse.org/td><cdt/tr>eclipse-cdt]<tr>|<td> BIT 2406|-</td><td> | Microsoft Excel 2007 (Solver)</td><td> yes| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary</td><td | style="background: gold none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=12812 Gold]</td><td> no| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No</td><td> | [http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ Gnumeric] ([http://openoffice.org/product/calc.html OpenOffice.org Calc] does not generate reports)</td><td> | Absolute values ( such as "1" or "0") can not be used forconstraints. Multiple cell ranges can not be manipulated at once,making Gnumeric unusable for transshipment problems and goalprogramming. Cell ranges can only be compared to ranges of equal lengthand width in constraints. Nonlinear programming is not yet possible.

</td></tr>|-<tr>| [[w:PSpice|PSpice]]<td> BIT 2406</td><td> Microsoft Excel 2007 (Analysis Toolpak)</td><td> yes</td><td | style="background: gold none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;silver"> | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=12812 Gold1026 Silver]</td><td> no| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No| [[Qucs]]</td><td> | You can probably replace the Tront PSpice book with the [http://projectsqucs.gnomesourceforge.orgnet/gnumericdocs/ Gnumericworkbook.pdf Qucs workbook].</td><td></td></tr>|-<tr><td> ECE 2074</td><td> | [http://enwww.wikipediazeitnitz.orgde/wikiChristian/PSpice PSpicescope_en Zeitnitz Soundcard Oscilloscope]</td><td> yes| ?</td><td | style="background: silver none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-gold" | Gold| ?| style="background: LightCoral" | No| [[xoscope]]||-clip| [http: border; -moz-//www.vellemanusa.com/products/view/?country=us&lang=enu&id=524708 PCLab]| style="background-origin: padding; -moz-LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background-inline-policy: continuous;rgb(225, 172, 110)"> | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManagerscreenshots.php?sClassiAppId=version2456&amp;iIdiVersionId=1026 SilverBronze?]</td><td> no| Kind of| style="background: LightCoral" | No| none, if you want to use this hardware</td><td> | bwr is supposedly working on a linux driver so that this 'scope might also work with [[Qucsxoscope]]</td><td> You can probably replace the Tront PSpice book with the [http://qucs.sourceforge.net/docs/workbook.pdf Qucs workbook].|-</td></tr><tr><td> ECE 2504</td><td> | [http://www.logicworks5.com/ LogicWorks]</td><td> yes| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary</td><td | style="background: gold none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">| [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&amp;iId=4944 Gold]</td><td> no| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No</td><td> | [[Qucs]]</td><td>| </td></tr>|-<tr><td> ECE 2504</td><td> | [[httpw://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLAB |MPLAB]]</td><td> yes| ??</td><td | style="background: gold none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&amp;iId=403 Gold]</td><td> no| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes</td><td> | [http://piklab.sourceforge.net/ Piklab]</td><td>| </td></tr>|-<tr><td> ECE 2534</td><td> | [[MicroBlaze|Xilinx tools ]] (parts GPL'd)</td><td> sometimes | ??| | Sometimes quirky</td><td></td><td> yes| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes</td><td>| </td><td> | Use 9.x natively with [http://rmdir.de/%7Emichael/xilinx/ libusb-driver].</td></tr><tr>|-<td> ECE 3504</td><td> | [http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=2759 WinCupl]</td><td>| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary</td><td | style="background: gold none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=2480 Gold]</td><td> no| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No</td><td>| </td><td> | Needs MFC40.dll:

<|-| [[w:Microsoft_Visual_C_Sharp|MS Visual C#]] + [[w:.NET Framework|.NET]]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| ??| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No| [[MonoDevelop]] + [[Mono]]||-| [[VMware]] products| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: LightCoral" | No| ...| Some| Virtualbox, QEMU| VMware's tools can generally be used to convert images between VMware and VirtualBox/QEMU formats.|-| [https://www.microsoft.com/project/ Microsoft Project]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: rgb(225, 172, 110)" | [http://td><appdb.winehq.org/tr>objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18152 Bronze]<tr>| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes<td> ENGE 1104| style="background: LightCoral" | No<| [http://live.gnome.org/td><td> Planner GNOME Planner]| Planner lacks resource levelling or constraints|-| [http://usa.autodesk.com/ Autodesk Products]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: LightCoral" | Garbage| Buggy| style="background: LightCoral" | No| | Success in Wine depends on the Autodesk product used and revisions of all software involved.|-| [https://www.freescalemicrosoft.com/webappvisio/spsMicrosoft Visio]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: gold" | [http:/site/homepageappdb.winehq.org/objectManager.jspphp?nodeIdsClass=version&iId=16692 Gold]| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style=012726 CodeWarrior"background: LightCoral" | No| [http://live.gnome.org/Dia Dia]<| Lots of add-ons for circuit shapes and logic for flowcharts|-| [https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/td><td> noen-us Microsoft Visual Studio]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary<| style="background: LightCoral" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/td><td objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=892 Garbage]| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: rgb(225LightCoral" | No| [http://gcc.gnu.org/ gcc], 172[http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ eclipse-cdt]| Compiling C++ in g++ is okay, 110) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -mozbut testing in a Visual Studio environment is recommended to make sure that the project will work correctly before turning it in.|-| [https://www.microsoft.com/powerpoint/ Microsoft PowerPoint]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| ?| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background-clip: borderLightCoral" | No| [[LibreOffice]] Impress, [[Beamer]]| Some instructors may require PPTX files, but some may also accept PDF; your mileage will very depending upon your instructor.|-moz| [http://www.sibelius.com/products/scorch/index.html Sibelius Scorch]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| ?| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No| | |-| [https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html Adobe Flash Player]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| ?| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| | |-origin| [https: padding; -moz//www.respondus.com/products/lockdown-browser/ Respondus LockDown Browser]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background-inline-policy: continuous;LightCoral"> | [httphttps://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&amp;iId=1300 Bronze13078 No?]| style="background: LightCoral" | [http://support.respondus.com/support/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/201/25/students-see-the-warning-the-browser-cant-be-used-in-virtual-machine-software-such-as-virtual-pc-vmware-and-parallels No]| style="background: LightCoral" | No| | Integrates with Scholar, Canvas for testing; prevents access to other tabs, perhaps other apps (by blacklist), resists running in virtualized environments and some releases of Wine, </tdem>must be run as administrator<td/em> yes|-| [http://www.tech-tools.com/index.htm DigiView]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| ??| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No| | Integrates with Scholar, Canvas for testing; prevents access to other tabs, perhaps other apps (by blacklist), resists running in virtualized environments and some releases of Wine, </tdem>must be run as administrator<td/em><|} == Course management software ====== [http://www.blackboard.com/td><td>index.html Blackboard] - ??? - 2010 ====<==== [https://scholar.vt.edu/td><portal Scholar] - 2010 - 2017 ======== [https:/tr></table>canvas.vt.edu Canvas] - 2017 - Current ====

== See Also ==* [[Example LaTeX Chem Lab ReportComputer requirement]] - An example lab report for CHEM 1045 written in LaTeX.

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