Computer Stuff
|
Here you will find assorted links, mostly open source computer related, that I've found useful, or at least interesting in one way or another, and are not all that politically motivated. For politcally motivated links, see my Consumption links. My Software Projects particularly my desktop publishing software Laidout. Various other software links: General Linux stuff Linux for Artists 3-d Modeling Math Text Games Other Links Last updated 12 June 2007 |
|
Links for Artists
Links to more artsy Linux stuff| I think this one is about linux for artists, but it's all in French, which I can't read |
linuxgraphic.org |
| A bootable cd full of artsy Linux! | grafpup.com |
| (getting a little out of date) | linuxartist.org |
| Desktop Publishing | |
| Lyx | www.lyx.org/ |
| TeX (linux package, includes Metafont and Metapost) | www.tug.org/teTeX |
| Scribus | www.scribus.net |
| Passepartout | www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout |
| Open Office | www.openoffice.org |
| Laidout (my own software!) | www.laidout.org |
| Graphics | |
| Imagemagick image utilities | www.imagemagick.org |
| FontForge | fontforge.sourceforge.net |
| Jahshaka (for animation) | www.jahshaka.org |
| Synfig (animation) | www.synfig.com |
| qcad | www.qcad.org |
| dia (fancy diagrams) | www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia |
| Inkscape, svg editor | www.inkscape.org |
| SodiPodi, basically Inkscape's precursor | sodipodi.sourceforge.net |
| The Gnu Image Manipulation Program (Gimp) | www.gimp.org |
| Cinepaint (movie frame editor) | www.cinepaint.org |
| Sk1 | sk1.sourceforge.net |
| Generic Mapping Tools | gmt.soest.hawaii.edu |
| Krita (image editing/painting) | www.koffice.org/krita/ |
| Music and Sound | |
| Lots of links for this sort of thing |
www.linux-sound.org |
| Lots more links for this sort of thing |
www.xdt.com/ar/linux-snd |
| Lots of sheet music | www.mutopiaproject.org |
| Lilypond, music layout system | www.lilypond.org |
| Denemo, a graphic front for Lilypond | denemo.sourceforge.net |
| Lmms, sound synthesizer | lmms.sourceforge.net |
| Rosegarden, great midi sequencer and more, you'll need probably Fluidsynth and Jack |
www.rosegardenmusic.com |
| Hydrogen drum machine, uses jack | www.hydrogen-music.org |
| Fluidsynth, kind of a sound font backend | www.nongnu.org/fluid |
| Jack, versatile sound management backend | jackaudio.org |
| Music Hardware Reviews | |
| Harmony Central | www.harmony-central.com |
| Video Editing Video editing under Linux is still something of a wild frontier land at the moment (June 2007). This means that often you will want to use the latest source for the projects below, which will minimize the frustration resulting from bizarre bugs that don't seem to have any workaround. | |
| Cinelerra | heroines.sourceforge.net/cinelerra.php3 |
| Synfig, for animation | www.synfig.com |
| Jahshaka, real time video editor | www.jahshaka.org |
| Cinepaint, mainly for touching up frames | cinepaint.sourceforge.net |
| MPlayer and Mencoder | www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage |
| ffmpeg, command line video+audio stream convertor | ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu |
| Linux Movies Group | www.linuxmovies.org |
| Avidemux, your basic, simple editor | avidemux.sourceforge.net |
| Kino, another basic, simple editor | www.kinodv.org |
| Kdenlive, promising new editor, multi track video and audio | kdenlive.org |
| Blender, 3-d modeler including video sequencer with ffmpeg support | blender.org |
| Recordmydesktop, for making video tutorials! | recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net |
| Lots of linux video links | yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialVideo.html |
| Math | |
| Yacas | yacas.sourceforge.net |
| Octave | www.octave.org |
| GnuPlot | www.gnuplot.info |
| Metapost | cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html |
| Other | |
| Project Gutenberg, putting old books online |
gutenberg.net |
| Astronomy | |
| Stellarium, very nice, planetarium-like | www.stellarium.org |
| Celestia, space flight simulator | www.shatters.net/celestia |
| Xephem | www.clearskyinstitute.com |
3-d Modeling Stuff
Blender
www.blender.org
A very nice open source modeler and animation program. Includes a game engine so you could design 3-d games as well as animation and pictures. Blender has a relatively steep learning curve, but it's worth it. Also can use the Yafrey ray tracer to render.
PovRay
Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer, www.povray.org
Excellent ray tracer. Works from text configuration files. There are programs that will convert formats, so for instance, you can design a scene in Blender, and run a script to convert it to a Povray file, and get high quality rendering. (I haven't used this script yet, but I know it exists)
KPovmodeler
www.kpovmodeler.org
A point and click interface for making povray files.
VPython
Visiual Python, www.vpython.org
A quick and easy way to sketch out 3-d concepts with the python scripting language.
Here's a bunch of stuff for and about Linux:
| Some flavors of Linux | |
| Debian | www.debian.org |
| Ubuntu | www.ubuntulinux.org |
| Knoppix | www.knoppix.org |
Various Hardware Compatibility Links | |
| Printer Compatibility info here | www.linuxprinting.org |
| Can your scanner scan? | www.sane-project.org |
| Check your modem here | www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html |
| Video card compatibility | www.xfree86.org |
| Digital Camera stuff | gphoto.sourceforge.net |
Various Linux Links | |
| Linux HOWTOs, faqs, and more | www.tldp.org |
| The Free Software Foundation | www.fsf.org |
| The GNU project | www.gnu.org |
| Freegeek Computer Recyclers where you can get a computer by volunteering |
www.freegeek.org |
| Blackbox Window Manager | blackboxwm.sourceforge.net |
Lots of software www.linux.org www.freshmeat.net www.sourceforge.net www.rpmfind.net | |
Interactive Text Games
If you've ever played the old Infocom games like Zork 1, 2, or 3, or perhaps the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or The Leather Goddesses of Phobos, then you might be surprised to learn that people are still making interective text games. To learn more and get some games to play, you might try the following.
www.ifarchive.org
Kind of a compendium of all things interactive-text.
www.ifcomp.org
The site for the annual Interactive Fiction competition. I entered the 2003 competition, but nearly every reviewer thought my game was really pathetic. Unfortunately, I agree with some of the complaints to a certain extent, so I'm revising my game before I post it on my site.
rec.arts.int-fiction
rec.games.int-fiction
Two newsgroups devoted to discussion of IF. The first is for those interested in programming games, and the second for those interested in playing and reviewing games.
Copyright 2005, Tom J. Lechner