Software Resources Pages

A small directory of libraries that make writing applications that run on UNIXes as well as on Windows 32-bit / 64 bit easier.

A small directory of tools for building, configuring, and maintaining software.

A list of text editors and IDEs.

A short list of some prominent numerical software packages.

A list of some prominent text processing tools such as preprocessors or template systems.

A list of some prominent networking clients: web-browsers, E-mail clients, Instant Messaging (IM) clients, Microblogging clients, FTP clients, etc.

A list of some prominent multimedia applications: generic multimedia players, dedicated music players, video downloaders, etc.

A list of some prominent computer graphics applications: raster editors, vector editors, 3-D programs, image viewers and organisers, etc.

A list of some prominent database implementations: key/value stores, SQL databases, XML databases, distributed databases, etc.

Quite a few people, including me, have been lamenting the poor quality of a lot of modern software applications. In order to do something constructive to combat this, I decided to collect links to tools and other resources that can help enhancing the quality of software.

• Curated list of awesome lists - on GitHub/etc.

• Sound & MIDI Software for Linux

• “Linux Enterprise Computing” - “old and out-of-date” lists of software for the Linux operating system. By Linas Vepstas and reflects the state of Linux software as of the late 1990s.

An initiative meant to advance the projects that aim to create better publicly available tools for version control.

A site for Perl beginners.

A site for Vim beginners. Vim is an open-source, cross-platform, powerful, and configurable, text editor.

A guide to the online resources about Free and Open Source Software in Israel.

A list of Israeli open-source projects that used to be on the wiki of Hackers-IL.