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frenchn00b
September 10th, 2009, 04:50 PM
What's your job?

Which application/software under Linux do your use the most for your work/job/duty? How do you like it?




Example of apps:



QtiPlot

Description:
Data analysis and scientific plotting.
Free clone of Origin.
gnuplot


http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14826

LabPlot

Description:
LabPlot is a KDE application for data plotting and function analysis. It support both 2D and 3D plots and tries to emulate most of the functions supported by programs like Microcal Origin or SPSS Sigmaplot.

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9881

But I cannot say, if these programmes offer the complete functionality of Origin. I used Origin at university, but never the mentionend freeware alternatives.

Lifelock
September 11th, 2009, 12:57 PM
Job: senior researcher in computer science (software engineering)

I will break it down a bit as my usage of tools heavily depends on what I am doing. And I will leave out the obvious stuff such as mail clients and pdf viewers :).

Overall, by for and away I use Texmaker the most. My work involves a lot of mathematical stuff to be described and nothing beats latex for doing that. And Texmaker provides a nice environment for doing that effectively.

When I am setting up formal and mathematical models and I need to analyse or simulate equations, I use Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/). Maxima is a computer algebra system you can use to manipulate functions and perform operations such as integration or derivation and solving. It is an open source fork of Macsyma, another well-known computer algebra system.

When developing prototype tools to demonstrate research approaches, I use eclipse as my IDE for java. A lot of stuff gets written in java as it cross-platform and eclipse offers a good plug-in environment to base your tooling on.