Operating System
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
Solaris 10		5.10	SUN	Internals FAQ \| Linux Documentaion Project \| Introduction to Linux	Unix Reference Card \| Unix Tutorial for Beginners
AntiVirus Software
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
McAfee	uvscan	5.2 Solaris	McAfee	VirusScan for PC and Mac is available for SDSU students	man uvscan \| Virus Information \| SDSU Student Download
avast	Not on Rohan		avast Anti-Virus	Free AntiVirus	Linux \| Mac \| Windows
AVG	Not on Rohan		AVG Anti-Virus	Free AntiVirus	FAQ \| Download
Backup and Archiving Software
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
GNU Tar	tar	1.19	Free Software Foundation	Create an archive or extract files from an archive	info tar \| Intro \| wiki
Networker	recover, nsrwatch	6.0.2	EMC	Home directories are backed up once a day after midnight	man recover \| man nsrwatch \| Tutorial
Compilers
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
C	cc	5.8	SUN	Sun C Introduction to C	man cc \| Documentation \| Tutorial
C	gcc	3.4.6	Free Software Foundation	GNU C Pointers in C	info gcc \| man gcc \| Learning GNU C
C++	CC	5.8	SUN	Sun C++	man CC \| Documentation \| Tutorial
C++	g++	3.4.6	Free Software Foundation	GNU C++	info gcc \| man gcc
Erlang	erl, erlc, escript	R12B-3	erlang.org	By Ericsson, a language for concurrent, distributed systems	man erl \| man escript \| Documentation \| Intro
Fortran	f77, f95	5.8	SUN	Sun Fortran	man f77 \| man f95 \| Documentation \| Notes
Java	javac	1.6.20	SUN	Sun Java JDK	man javac \| Tutorials \| Programming Using Java \| Thinking in Java
Hugs 98	hugs	Sep 2006	Mark Jones	based on Haskell 98	man hugs \| User Guide
Lisp	clisp	2.39	Free Software Foundation	Common Lisp	Implementation \| man clisp
Lisp	gcl	2.2.2	Free Software Foundation	GNU Common Lisp	info gcl-si \| man gcl
Nu Prolog	np	1.3	Univ. of Melbourne	Prolog	man np \| Reference Manual
Pascal	pc	4.2	SUN	Sun Pascal	man pc \| Reference \| User Guide
Perl	perlcc perl	5.8.6	The Perl Foundation	Experimental Perl Compiler Please see perl for more info	man perlcc
python	python	2.5.1	Free Software Foundation	Interpreted object-oriented programming language	man python \| FAQ \| Manual \| Tutorial \| Dive Into Python
Scheme	scheme	7.7.90	Free Software Foundation	GNU Scheme	man scheme \| Reference \| User Guide
Tcl/Tk/Wish	tclsh, wish	8.5	Tcl Developer Xchange	Tool Command Language	man wish \| FAQ \| Manual \| TkDocs \| wiki \| wikipedia
tkcon	tkcon	4.0	Jeffrey Hobbs	Enhanced Tk Console	Manual \| Screenshot
tkinspect	tkinspect	5.1.6p10	Jeffrey Hobbs	An inspector for Tk applications	Manual \| Screenshot
Compiler Build Tools
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
Ant	ant	1.7	Free Software Foundation	Java-based build tool	Ant Demystified \| Tutorial \| Manual
Bison	bison	2.3	Free Software Foundation	GNU parser generator, upwardly compatible with Yacc	info bison \| man bison \| Manual \| Tutorial \| Ref Card \|
Make	make	3.81	Free Software Foundation	GNU build tool to maintain groups of programs	info make \| man make \| Tutorial \| Manual
Yacc	yacc	4.0	SUN	Yet Another Compiler Compiler, a parser generator	HowTo \| Intro \| man yacc \| User Guide \|
Compression
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
7-Zip	7z	4.55	Igor Pavlov	supports 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2, tar, rpm, and deb formats	man 7za
bzip2	bzip2	1.0.2	Julian Seward	bzip2, bunzip2 .bz or .bz2 files	man bzip2
compress	compress	Solaris	SUN	compress, uncompress .Z files	man compress
gzip	gzip	1.2.4	Free Software Foundation	gzip, gunzip .z files	info gzip \| man gzip \| Intro
rar	unrar	3.30	Eugene Roshal	Unpack .rar archives	About RAR
unzip	unzip	5.32	Free Software Foundation	Unpack .zip archives	man unzip
zip	zip	2.3	Info-ZIP	Create .zip archives	man zip
Concurrent Version Systems
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
Concurrent Versions System	cvs	1.11.22	Free Software Foundation	Manage multiple file revisions Open Source Develeopment with CVS	FAQ \| info CVS \| man cvs \| Reference Card \| Tutorial
Mercurial	hg, hgmerge	0.9.5	selenic consulting	Scalable distributed source control management system	man hg \| Manual \| QuickStart \| wikipedia
Revision Control System	rcs	5.7(190)	Free Software Foundation	Manages multiple revisions of files	man rcsintro \| RCS tutorial
Subversion	svn	1.4.2	CollabNet	Manage multiple file revisions Version Control with Subversion	FAQ \| man svn \| Reference Card \| Tutorial
Databases
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
BerkeleyDB		4.2	Oracle	High-performance, embedded database library with bindings in C, C++, Java, Perl	Reference Guide \| embedding BerkeleyDB using perl
gdbm		1.8.3	Free Software Foundation	Database library using extensible hashing in C and Perl	C example \| Perl example \| man gdbm \| man GDBM_File
MySQL	mysql -p	5.0.27	MySQL	World's most popular open source database	MySQL Developer Zone
Oracle	sqlplus	10g	Oracle	SDSU site licensed	Oracle Documentation Library
SQLite	sqlite3	3.5.3	SQLite.org	Self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine	SQLite Documentation
Debuggers
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
dbx	dbx	Solaris	SUN	Sun compiler debugger	man dbx \| dbx tutorial
Data Display Debugger	ddd	3.3	Free Software Foundation	Graphical front end for gdb	info ddd \| man ddd \| Debugging Code with ddd
Eclipse	eclipse	3.3.1	Eclipse.org	An extensible Integrated Development Environment for Java, C and C++	CDT FAQ \| Documentation \| FAQ \| Getting Started \| wiki
GNU Debugger	gdb	6.5	Free Software Foundation	Source-level debugger for GNU compilers	info gdb \| man gdb \| gdb tutorial
Sun Studio	sunstudio	12.2	SUN	Graphical debugger Type sunstudio and click Tutorial for a quick tour	Quick Start \| Sun Studio 12 Documentation \| X-Designer User's Guide
Documentation
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
apropos	apropos	Solaris	SUN	man page key word lookup	man apropos
info	info	4.8	Free Software Foundation	View software info documents	info
man	man	Solaris	SUN	View reference manual pages	man
TkMan	tkman	2.1	sourceforge	Grapical manual page browser	man tkman
Email
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
Exmh	exmh	2.7.2	Brent Welch	Tcl/Tk client for nmh Not compatible with Webmail	Documentation \| man exmh \| What is exmh? \| wiki
elm	elm	2.5.2	Elm	Older email client	man elm \| Users Guide
Pine	pine	4.02A	University of Washington	Easy to use email client. Not compatible with Webmail	FAQ \| Info \| man pine
mailx	mailx	Solaris	SUN	Basic command line mail client	man mailx
Mutt	mutt	1.2.5i	Michael Elkins	A powerful, configurable and modern mail client	man mutt \| Manual \| Beginners Guide
Webmail		1.4.10a	SquirrelMail	http://rohan.sdsu.edu/webmail	User Manual
File Browsing
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
less	less	2.90	Free Software Foundation	Text file browser	man less
more	more	Solaris	SUN	Text file browser	man more
pg	pg	Solaris	SUN	Text file browser	man pg
File Editors
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
EDT	edt	1.5.7	sourceforge	The old VAX/VMS editor	man edt
emacs	emacs	21.1.1	Free Software Foundation	A powerful, extensible editor	info emacs \| info cl \| Introduction \| Cheat Sheet
gedit	gedit	2.6.2	Gnome Desktop	Graphical text editor with syntax highlighing	man gedit \| Manual
jove	jove, teachjove	4.13	Free Software Foundation	Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs	man jove
pico	pico	4.10	University of Washington	A basic text editor	man pico \| pico guide
StarOffice	soffice	7.0	SUN	Compatible with word and excel documents	Documentation
VIsual editor	vi, vilearn	Solaris	Bill Joy	screen-oriented (visual) editor	Introduction \| Quickstart \| Vi Lovers \| Why Use vi?
Vi IMproved	vim, gvim, vimtutor	7.1	Bram Moolenaar	A powerful editor with syntax highlighting	Cheat Sheet \| Manual \| Tutorial \| vim online \| Vi IMproved
Image Processing
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
gimp	gimp	2.0.2	Free Software Foundation	Powerful image manipulation and painting with many Photoshop features	man gimp \| Tutorials \| User Manual
xfig	xfig	3.2.4	xfig.org	X11 drawing program	man xfig \| User Manual
xgraph	xgraph	11.3.2	xgraph.org	X11 graphing program	man xgraph \| User Manual
xloadimage	xloadimage	4.1	Jim Frost	X11 image viewer	man xloadimage
xpaint	xpaint	2.1	Free Software Foundation	X11 paint program	man xpaint \| Tutorial
xv	xv	3.10a	John Bradley	Interactive image manipulation	Tutorial \| xv userguide html \| pdf
Internet
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
Apache		2.2.16	Apache HTTPD Server Project	Rohan's web server supports virtual hosts, and uses Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl.	Homepage Guide PHP Security Perl CGI Security
ftp	ftp	Solaris	SUN	Internet file transfer program. Rohan uses vsftpd ftp server	man ftp
irc	irc	2.8.2	IRChelp.org	Internet relay chat	man irc
lynx	lynx	2.8.6	Internet Software Consortium	Non-graphical web browser	man lynx \| Users Guide
firefox	firefox	3.6.8	Mozilla	Graphical web browser	firefox
rsync	rsync	2.6.9	Wayne Davison	Fast incremental file transfer	Documentation \| man rsync \| Rsync & SSH \| Tutorial
sftp	sftp	5.0p1	OpenSSH	Secure ftp. WinSCP and FileZilla are free sftp clients	man sftp \| Download WinSCP
ssh	ssh	5.0p1	OpenSSH	Putty and SSH are free Windows Secure Shell clients	man ssh Tunneling \| Download Putty \| Download SSH
telnet	telnet	Solaris	SUN	Text interface to a remote system	man telnet \| Wiki Telnet
tn3270	tn3270	4.1.1	Wiki TN3270	Full screen login to IBM VM/CMS	man tn3270
wget	wget	1.9.1	Free Software Foundation	Command line web page downloads	info wget \| man wget \| Tutorial
Math
Software Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
Maple	maple	Maple 12	Maplesoft	Symbolic algebra, handles a wide variety of problems.	man maple \| Reference Card \| Maple help and examples
Matlab	download only	R2012b	Mathworks	Interactive matrices, graphics and numerical computation. Download Matlab ISO	man matlab \| Reference Card \| Matlab help and examples
Octave	octave	2.0.17	Free Software Foundation	Solves linear and nonlinear problems numerically	info octave \| man octave \| Documentation
Sun Performance Library		Studio 11	SUN	LAPACK (supersedes LINPACK), BLAS1, BLAS2 and BLAS3, based on netlib	man sunstdio \| User Guide
Shells
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
bash	bash	3.00.16	Free Software Foundation	Bourne-Again Shell \| Advanced Scripting	info bash \| man bash \| Beginners Guide \| Introduction
chsh	chsh		Magill, Jansen	Change login shell	man chsh
sh	sh	Solaris	Stephen Bourne	Bourne shell	man sh \| Bourne Shell Scripting
csh	csh	Solaris	Bill Joy	C shell	man csh
tcsh	tcsh	6.12	Various Contributors	Tenex C shell	man tcsh \| Using csh & tcsh
Statistics
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
BMDP	bmdp, xbmdp	7.1	Statistical Solutions	ANOVA, Regression, Nonparametric Analysis, Times Series, etc	man bmdp \| man xbmdp \| Using bmdp on Rohan
Minitab	download only	16	Minitab	Data Analysis and Statistics Download for SDSU students	Features \| Tutorials \| Tour \| Meet Minitab PDF
R	R	2.6.1	R Project	Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics	info R-intro \| man R \| Documentation \| Wiki
S-Plus	Splus	8	Insightful	Expires 30-Sep-2011 Language for data analysis, graphics etc.	man Splus \| Documentation
SAS	sas	9.1.3	SAS	Data access, management, analysis and presentation. SAS Windows is available to students from their instructor.	Running SAS on Rohan \| Learn SAS \| SAS V9 Documentation
SPSS	SCC Lab	16	SPSS	SPSS is not available on Rohan The Library's 7/24 area and the SCC have SPSS	FAQ \| Getting Started \| Manuals \| Support
vplx	vplx	95.08	U.S Census Bureau	Program for the calculation of variances	Documentation
xlispstat	xlispstat	2.1 Release 3.44	Luke Tieney	Extensible environment for statistical data analysis	Documentation
System Utilities
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
Process Statistics	prstat	Solaris	SUN	Report active process statistics	man prstat \| process monitoring and prstat
Process Status	ps	Solaris	SUN	Report process status	man ps
top processes	top	3.6.1	LeFebvre	Displays the top cpu processes	man top \| top wiki
Text Formatting
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
acroread	acroread	7.0.9	Adobe	Displays Acrobat PDF files	Documentation
dvips	dvips	5.86	Radical Eye Software	Convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript	man dvip
ghostview	ghostview, gv	3.5.8	Johannes Plass	Diplays PostScript files using ghostscript	man ghostview
ispell	ispell	3.1.20	Free Software Foundation	Spell checker	man ispell
ps2pdf	ps2pdf	5.10	University of Wisconsin	Convert PostScript files to PDF	man ps2pdf
TeX	tex, latex	3.14159	Donald Knuth	Text formatting and typesetting	man tex \| man latex \| TeX FAQ
Text/Web Processing
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
GNU awk	gawk	3.1.5	Free Software Foundation	pattern scanning and processing A Tutorial and Introduction	man gawk \| info gawk \| Micro-Primer \| Primer
grep	grep	Solaris	SUN	Print lines matching a pattern	man grep \| grep tutorial
php	php	5.2.14	Free Software Foundation	"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" a general purpose scripting language	php.net tutorial \| devzone tutorial \| Top 5 PHP Security Risks
perl	perl	5.8.6	The Perl Foundation	Practical Extraction and Report Language PerlMonks	perldoc \| perlintro \| Tutorial \| Getting Started \| Info
ruby	ruby	1.8.4	Yukihiro Matsumoto	Interpreted object-oriented scripting language	man ruby \| Tutorial \| Learning Ruby \| Programming Ruby
sed	sed	Solaris	SUN	Non-interactive text file editor An Introduction and Tutorial	man sed \| Micro-Primer \| "one-liners" \| Tutorial
Usenet News
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
tin	tin	1.8.3	tin.org	A USENET newsreader Type h for help in tin	man tin \| tin tutorial \| Netiquette
trn	trn	3.6	sourceforge	A USENET newsreader Type h for help in trn	man trn Zen and the Art of the Internet
Web News access				What is USENET News?	USENET News on Google
XWindows
Title	Command	Version	Vendor	Notes	Help
CDE		1.6.2	Sun	Common Desktop Environment	Tutorial \| User Guide
CTWM		3.6	ctwm.free.lp.se	Claude's Tab Window Manager	Documentation \| man ctwm \| Sample .ctwmrc files
JDS		3.1	Sun	Java Desktop System built on GNOME	Documentation \| User Guide
KDE		3.1	kde.org	K Desktop Environment	Documentation \| Tutorials \| What is KDE?
X Win32	PC program	2010	StarNet	XWindows server for PCs Download for SDSU students	Configuring \| Download \| ssh \| Support \| Tutorials

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