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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 =<table borderLibre Applications =="1"><tr>See [[Annotation]] for a more in depth explanation about annotation software.<th> Class<==== [http://freshmeat.net/th><th> Proprietary Softwareprojects/jarnal Jarnal] - Java based PDF annotator ====<==== [https://th><th> VM<en.wikipedia.org/wiki/th><th> WINEOkular Okular] - KDE Document viewer ====<==== [http:/th><th> Native Linux Version</th><th> Equivalent FOSS<xournal.sourceforge.net/th><th> NotesXournal] - GTK+ inking application ====<==== [https:/th></tr>gnuradio.org GNURadio] - "Provides signal processing blocks to implement software-defined radios and signal-processing systems." ====<tr>==== Used by the Hume Center for research ====<td> Multiple==== [[LaTeX]] - Markup & typesetting system for producing high-quality documents ====<* The [https:/td><td> /github.com/josephwright/beamer Beamer] is used to create slides/posters* See [[DyKnowLaTeX#Example_LaTeX_documents]]for example documents <==== [http://www.mono-project.com/td><td> yesMono] - Cross platform .NET compiler and runtime ====<* [http://td><td stylewww.monodevelop.com/ MonoDevelop] GUI for Mono===="background[http: rgb(154, 63, 32)"> Garbage//pygments.org/ Pygments] - Source code pretty-printer that outpus to many formats ====<==== [https://www.r-project.org/td><td> noR] - The programming language for statistics ====</td><td> ==== [http://uppages.cs.ucsdwisc.edu/ Ubiquitous Presenter~larus/spim.html SPIM] - MIPS R2000 & R3000 simulator for educational purposes ======== [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox VirtualBox] - Virtualization software ======== [https://libvirt.org/ LibVirt] (Free - API for academic use)manaing virtual machines under QEMU, KVM, completely free version or XEN ====* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Machine_Manager virt-manager] is a work in progressGUI for libvirt<==== [http:/td><td> Get through installation by deleting the dependency entries/xmonad.org Xmonad] - Haskell based windows manager ====<* [https://td><linx.li/tr>ackthetxmonad.txt Ackthet's] configuration<tr>==== [http://bluej.org/ BlueJ] - Simple Java IDE ====<td> Multiple==== [https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete Clang Complete] - Popular Clang addon for vim ====<==== [https://www.gnu.org/software/td><td> screen/ Screen] - Popular terminal multiplexer ======== [[w:MATLABtmux|tmux]] - Popular terminal multiplexer ====* [[.tmux.conf|MATLABUser .tmux.conf configs]] ==== [http://xoscope.sourceforge.net/ Xoscope] - Oscilloscope program ======== [http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ Xournal] - Notetaking/Sketching/Journal App ======== [[Qucs]]- "Quite Universal Circuit Simulator" ====<==== [https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtoctave.berlios/td><td> yesQtOctave] - GUI for Octave ==== == Non-libre Applications =={| class='wikitable'|-! Software! License! WINE?! VM?! Native Linux?! Equivalent FOSS! Notes|-<| [https://www.mathworks.com/td><td products/matlab.html MATLAB]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: 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] (not syntax-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 MS Visual C++html 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| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary</td><td | style="background: rgb(154, 63, 32)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"> | [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><td> BIT 2406</td><td> Microsoft Excel 2007 (Analysis Toolpack)</td><td> yes</td><td style="background: gold"> [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=12812 Gold]</td><td> no</td><td> [http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ Gnumeric]</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>[[ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory]]</td><td> | [[w:PSpice|PSpice]]</td><td> yes| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary</td><td | style="background: silver"> | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&amp;iId=1026 Silver]</td><td> no| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No</td><td> | [[Qucs]]</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 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory]]</td><td> | [http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/scope_en Zeitnitz Soundcard Oscilloscope]</td><td> | ?</td><td | style="background: gold"> | Gold</td><td> no| ?| style="background: LightCoral" | No</td><td> | [[xoscope]]<||-| [http://www.vellemanusa.com/products/view/td><td>?country=us&lang=enu&id=524708 PCLab]<| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: rgb(225, 172, 110)" | [http:/td></tr>appdb.winehq.org/screenshots.php?iAppId=2456&iVersionId= Bronze?]| Kind of| style="background: LightCoral" | No<tr>| none, if you want to use this hardware<td>| bwr is supposedly working on a linux driver so that this 'scope might also work with [[ECE 2504 Introduction to Computer Engineeringxoscope]]</td><td> |-| [http://www.logicworks5.com/ LogicWorks]</td><td> yes| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary</td><td | style="background: gold">| [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 Introduction to Computer Engineering]]</td><td> | [[w:MPLAB|MPLAB]]</td><td> yes| ??</td><td | style="background: gold"> | [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 Microprocessor System Design]]</td><td> | [[MicroBlaze|Xilinx tools]] (parts GPL'd)</td><td> sometimes | ??| | Sometimes quirky</td><td>| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes</td><td> yes| </td><td></td><td> | Use 9.x natively with [http://rmdir.de/%7Emichael/xilinx/ libusb-driver].</td></tr>|-<tr><td>[[ECE 3504 Digital Design I]]</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"> | [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:

</td></tr>|- <tr><td>[[ECE 4564 Network Application Design]]</td><td>| [[w:Microsoft_Visual_C_Sharp|MS Visual C#]] + [[w:.NET Framework|.NET]]</td><td>yes| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary</td><td>| ??</td><td>no| style="background: LightGreen" | Yes| style="background: LightCoral" | No</td><td>| [[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/td><td>QEMU formats.|-<| [https://www.microsoft.com/td><project/tr>Microsoft Project]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary<tr>| style="background: rgb(225, 172, 110)" | [http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18152 Bronze]| 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/ Microsoft Visio]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: gold" | [http:/sps/siteappdb.winehq.org/homepageobjectManager.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)but 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: LightCoral"> | No| [[LibreOffice]] Impress, [[Beamer]]| Some instructors may require PPTX files, but some may also accept PDF; your mileage will very depending upon your instructor.|-| [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| | |-| [https://www.respondus.com/products/lockdown-browser/ Respondus LockDown Browser]| style="background: LightCoral" | Proprietary| style="background: LightCoral" | [https://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/td>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> yesmust be run as administrator</td><tdem><|-| [http://www.tech-tools.com/td><td>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</tr></tableem>|}

== Course management software ====== [http://www.blackboard.com/index.html Blackboard] - ??? - 2010 ======== [Example LaTeX Chem Lab Reporthttps://scholar.vt.edu/portal Scholar]- 2010 - 2017 ======== [https://canvas.vt.edu Canvas] - An example lab report for CHEM 1045 written in LaTeX.2017 - Current ====

==See Also==* [[:Category:Libre course software|Libre course software]]* [[:Category:Proprietary course software|Proprietary course softwareComputer requirement]]

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