Equivalents Table: Scientific

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Math system in MathCad style
  1. Mathcad
  1. Gap.
Math system in Matlab style
  1. Matlab
  1. Matlab.
  2. Octave. (+ Gnuplot)
  3. Scilab.
  4. R.
  5. Yorick.
  6. rlab.
  7. Yacas.
  8. Euler.
Math system in Mathematica style
  1. Mathematica
  1. Mathematica. [Prop]
  2. Maxima.
  3. MuPad.
  4. NumExp.
  5. Mathomatic.
Math system in Maple style
  1. Maple
  1. Maple. [Prop]
  2. Maxima.
  3. MuPad.
Equation / math editor
  1. Mathtype
  2. MS Equation Editor
  3. OpenOffice Math
  1. OpenOffice Math.
  2. MathMLed.
  3. Kformula (Koffice).
  4. LyX.
  5. Texmacs.
Engineering / Analysis / Finite Element Analysis
  1. ANSYS
  1. ANSYS.
  2. FELT (Finite Element Analysis)
  3. SALOME "The Open Source Platform for Numerical Simulation Integration"
High-end CAD/CAM/CAE (parameteric, constraints-based)
  1. CATIA
  2. SolidEdge
  3. Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/MECHANICA
  4. Unigraphics
  1. ProEngineer Linux. [Prop]
  2. CATIA
  3. SolidEdge
  4. BRL-CAD U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
  5. OpenCascade (libraries, no front-end).
  6. Varkon.
Low and Mid-range CAD/CAM/CAE
  1. AutoCAD
  2. Microstation
  3. ArchiCAD
  4. SolidWorks
  1. Varkon.
  2. Varicad. [Prop]
  3. Cycas. [Prop]
  4. Tomcad.
  5. Thancad.
  6. Fandango (alpha-version).
  7. Lignumcad.
  8. Giram.
  9. Jcad.
  10. QSCad.
  11. FreeEngineer.
  12. Ocadis.
  13. PythonCAD.
  14. OpenCascade.
Really Low-end (2d) CAD/CAM/CAE
  1. AutoCAD Lite
  1. Qcad.
Small desktop publishing systems
  1. MS Publisher
  1. Scribus - Desktop Publishing for Linux.
  2. KWord.
Diagram and chart designer
  1. Microsoft Visio
  1. Kivio (Koffice).
  2. Dia.
  3. KChart.
  4. xfig.
  5. Tgif + dotty.
  6. Tulip.
  7. Poseidon for UML. [Prop & free versions]
  8. JGraph + JGraphPad. (Java)
Geographic image processing software
  1. Erdas Imagine
  2. ER Mapper
  3. ENVI
  1. ENVI.
GIS (Geographical information system)
  1. ArcView
All projects: FreeGIS Project.
  1. Grass.
  2. Quantum GIS.
  3. PostGIS.
  4. FreeGIS.
  5. MapQuest.
  6. MapBlast.
Interactive Geographic Data Viewer
  1. Thuban.
  1. Thuban.
Vectorization of bitmaps
  1. MapEdit
  2. Easy Trace
  1. Autotrace.
Software CNC, controlling machine tools
  1. OpenCNC [Prop]
  1. EMC Hard realtime via RTAI/RTLinux.
Advanced text processing system in TeX style
  1. MikTex
  2. emTeX (DOS)
  1. TeX.
  2. TeTeX / LaTeX
  3. LyX (WYSIWYM).
  4. Kile.
Convenient, functional and user-friendly TeX-files / dvi-files editor.
  1. WinEdt
  1. Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment).
  2. Ktexmaker2.
  3. Tk LaTeX Editor.
Statistical Computing Language and Environment
  1. S-PLUS
  1. R.
Statistical analysis
  1. SPSS
  2. Statistica
  3. SalStat
Many links - here.
  1. PSPP.
  2. OpenStat2.
  3. SalStat.
Econometrics Software
  1. Eviews
  2. Gretl
  1. Gretl.
Emulation of the circuit
  1. Electronic Workbench
  2. Altera MaxPlus+
  1. Geda.
  2. Oregano.
  3. Xcircuit.
  4. Gnome Assisted Electronics.
  5. SPICE.
  6. SPICE OPUS.
  7. NG-SPICE.
Program to draw chemical structures
  1. Chemdraw
  2. Isisdraw
  1. Xdrawchem
Electronics scheme design
  1. PCAD
  2. OrCad
  3. Visio
  1. Eagle.
  2. Geda.
The oscilloscope emulation
  1. Winoscillo
  1. Xoscope.
Measurement of the temperature and voltages on motherboard
  1. MBMonitor
  2. PCAlert
  3. Speedfan
  1. KSensors.
  2. KHealthCare (KDE).
  3. Gkrellm + plugins + blackbox addons.
S.M.A.R.T-attributes and temperature of the hard disk
  1. Come on CD with mainboard
  2. Active SMART
  1. smartctl.
  2. Hddtemp-0.3.
  3. IDEload-0.2.
  4. Smartsuite-2.1.
  5. Smartmontools.
  6. Ide-smart.
  7. Smartsuite.
Memory testing
  1. SiSoft SANDRA
  1. Memtest86.
Program for watching temperatures, fanspeeds, etc
  1. SiSoft SANDRA / SiSoft SAMANTHA
  1. Ksensors.
  2. Lm_sensors.
  3. xsensors.
  4. wmsensormon and other applets for AfterStep / WindowMaker / FluxBox.
HDD testing / benchmarking
  1. SiSoft SANDRA / SiSoft SAMANTHA
  2. IOzone
  1. hdparm.
  2. Bonnie++.
  3. IOzone.
  4. Dbench.
  5. Bonnie.
  6. IO Bench.
  7. Nhfsstone.
  8. SPEC SFS. [Prop]
Video testing / benchmarking
  1. Final Reality
  1. X11perf.
  2. Viewperf.
Realtime Control
  1. SHA Sybera Hardware Access
  1. DIAPM RTAI - Realtime Application Interface.
Simulator of nets
  1. NS.
Neural network simulation
  1. Xnbc.
  2. Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS).
"Sensor for LCD"
  1. Sensors-lcd.
Electrocardiogrammas viewer
  1. ecg2png.
A software technology, that turns x86 computer into a full-function PLC-like process controller
  1. SoftPLC
  1. MatPLC.
  2. ClassicLadder.
Translation memory
  1. Trados Translators Workbench
  2. Deja Vu
  3. Star Transit
  4. SDLX
  5. OmegaT
  1. OmegaT.
Catalog of educational software
  1. SchoolForge.
  2. Seul / EDU.
Designing and viewing DTDs

NearFar Designer [Prop]

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