Software Matrix

20 August 2024 Link

This page contains the list of all software that I find good and useful and their application areas:

Office Software
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
PDFedit		PDF Editing		Yes		Free	Windows
Apowersoft		Screen Recording		No		Free
e-Lecta		Screen Recording		No	None	Free	Windows	Very good features
VSDC Video Editor		Video Editor		No		Free
Avidemux		Video Editor		Yes		Free
Openshot		Video Editor		Yes		Free		Looks full featured
Da Vinci Resolve		Video Editor		No		Free	Windows, Mac, Linux	* Easy to Learn * Is very resource hungry, kept crashing!
Blender		Video Editor and 3D editor		Yes		Free	Windows Mac and Linux	Video editor quite complicated with not enough tutorials since Blender mainly used for 3D design Had to do some complex steps just to rotate a video

Website
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Pagebreeze		HTML Editing and creation		No		Free	Windows
Kompozer		HTML WYSIWYG editing		Yes		Free
OpenResty		Lua Web Application server based on nginx server		Yes		Free	Linux and Mac	Mastering Nginx
HTML 5 Boilerplate		Very popular HTML5 website template		Yes	MIT	Free	Cross Platform
Mako Server		Very lightweight web server with Lua Application code integration as Lua Server Pages		Yes	GPL	Cross Platform

Mathematics
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Octave		Numerical Computation Programming		Yes		Free		GNU Octave Beginner's Guide
GSL-Shell		* Mathematical library binding for Lua		Yes	GNU	Free
GNUPlot	4.6.3	Plotting library		Yes	GNU?	Free		Data Analysis with Open Source Tools
SciLua		Math library with LuaJIT engine included		Yes	Free
Scilab	5.2.0	Numerical Computation Programming *Signal Flow simulation	Has some issues with memory management in Windows	Yes		Free		Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos with ScicosLab 4.4
Maxima	5.20	Symbolic Computation Numerical Computation *Programming		Yes		Free

Knowledge Management
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Liferay	6.0	Collaboration Platform	No Issue tracking portlet. Liferay guys themselves use JIRA.	Yes		Free Community version
Joomla	2.5	Website development platform		Yes		Free		Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
MediaWiki	1.16.0	Personal Unorganized Data management portal	* Needs Server, MySQL, PHP running * Not portable	Yes		Free Community version		Wikis For Dummies
TiddlyWiki	2.6.3	Personal Unorganized Data management Wiki with a great plugin architecture and no server running requirement		Yes		Free		Wikis For Dummies
Jarnal	1075	* Tablet note taking * annotating PDF		Yes		Free

EDA
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Circuit Simulation
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
LTSpice		Circuit Simulation Circuit Drawing Simulation Waveforms display Hierarchical circuit handling Macromodelling Netlist creation		No		Free		Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs
NGSPICE		Circuit Simulation		Yes		Free
Iverilog		Digital Simulation		Yes		Free

IC Layout
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Magic		IC Layout		Yes		Free
Toped		IC Layout		Yes		Free
KLayout		IC Layout		Yes	GPL 2	Free	Cross Platform	Ruby Scripting

Circuit/PCB Design Tools
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
KiCAD		EDA suite for: Circuit design (eeschema) PCB design and 3D board design (pcbnew) *Viewing Gerber files (gerberview)		Yes		Free
SKILL Corner generator	1.2013.2.19	Generate ocean scripts to run corners in Cadence

Embedded Systems
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
FreeRTOS		RTOS		Yes		Free		Using the FreeRTOS Real Time Kernel - Standard Edition (FreeRTOS Tutorial Books)

Systems Programming
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Wireshark		Network protocol analysis				Free	* Windows * Linux * Mac	Allows Lua scripting
Dependency Walker		Analyze dependencies of a exe, dll, etc.					Windows

Networking
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Software	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
ExtraPutty	Putty with Lua scripting and DLL frontend		Yes		Free	Windows
UrbanVPN	Free VPN servers and connections				Free	Windows

Field Solvers
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
FASTCAP		Capacitance extraction of 3D structures		Yes		Free
FastHenry		Inductance Analysis of 3D Structures		Yes		Free
FastImp		Impedance extraction program for 3D geometries		Yes		Free

Programming
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Visual Studio Express		Programming in Visual C++, Visual Basic Compiling and Debugging		No		Free
Eclipse		Programming in a host of languages like C/C++, Java, Embedded C, etc. Debugging *Attach various compilers		Yes		Free
Code Blocks		Programming IDE for C/C++ and a host of other languages Good for Rapid Application Development of WxWidgets		Yes		Free
Love 2D		2D Gaming engine scriptable in Lua Good environment for actually doing graphics programming with Lua		Yes		Free
MOAI		Cross platform 2D Game engine		Yes		Free	* Linux * Android * iOS * Windows
mapeditor		2D Game map editor based on tiles
Macro Monkey		*Macro writer for Windows platform in Lua		Yes		Free
ZerobraneStudio	0.38	Lua Programming IDE for various Lua toolkits as well like Love2D, CoronaSDK, LuaJIT, etc.		Yes		Free	Windows, Linux Mac
CI2CV Face Analysis SDK		Facial analysis SDK in C++		Yes	GPL2	Free
Selenium		Browser Automation		Yes				Has a binding to Lua here
Valgrind		Detecting memory leaks		Yes

Libraries
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Library	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Lua Libraries								A collection of Lua Libraries I find interesting
Apache Lucy								Open source C library for text indexing
PoDoFo					LGPL			Open source C++ Library for PDF parsing and writing
Raylib	3.5.0	Lightweight Graphical Library		Yes	Zlib	Free	Cross Platform

System Utilities
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
RoboDOC		Automatic Documentation Extractor from Source code. Works for any language that supports comments.		Yes		Free	C code compiled in MinGW
Sedna		Software to create and maintain an XML database from a collection of XML files		Yes		Free
SednaAdmin		GUI Administrator client for Sedna		Yes		Free	Written in Java so platform independent.
Clonezilla		Disk imaging tool		Yes		Free	Live CD with Linux
Macrium Reflect Free		Disk imaging tool		No		Free	Windows Installation with Rescue CD creation
Ultimate Boot CD		Disk rescue and recovery with lots of utilities				Free	Live CD with Linux
Ccleaner		Windows Optimization				Free	Windows
Advanced System Care Free		Windows Optimization				Free	Windows
JFileSync		File and Directory Synchronization and Backup		Yes		Free	Java based so platform Independent.
depends22		dependency walker lets you view dll dependences in Windows as ldd does in Linux
VirtualBox	6	Create different operating system virtual environments in your machine		Yes			Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD	Using VirtualBox to run Windows XP on Windows 10

CAD Design
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Wavedrom		Digital Timing Diagram drawing		Yes		Free	Browser
NaroCAD	1.8,8	3D CAD software based on the concept of Parametric modelling of solids		Yes		Free	Windows	No development commits since 2014, has Lua scripting!
LibreCAD	2.0.10	2D Cad software		Yes		Free	Cross Platform	Has Lua scripting
FreeCAD		3D CAD software		Yes		Free
Google Sketchup		3D CAD Software		No		Free Version with limited functionality	Windows	Google SketchUp 8 For Dummies
Sweet Home 3D		Architectural Plans, 3D views and Elevations		Yes		Free	Windows or Linux

Open Source Code Libraries
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C/C++ Code Libraries
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Boost Libraries		Lot of libraries: Interprocess Communication String handling		Yes		Free	Cross Platform
libCurl		Network communication protocols		??		Free	Cross Platform
SQLite		Serverless transactional Database with very small footprint to embed in applications		Yes		Free	Cross Platform
Lua	5.2	Embeddable scripting language		Yes		Free	Cross Platform	I recommend the book Programming in Lua, Third Edition to learn Lua. It has everything you need to know and is a very good reference as well.
WxWidgets		Cross Platform GUI library		Yes		Free	Cross Platform

Educational Software
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
GeoGebra		Learning and experimenting with Mathematics		Yes		Free	Multiplatform
Kojo		Learning: Computer Programming Creative Thinking Art Music		Yes		Free	Windows Linux *Max
MathPiper		Learning: Computer Programming Mathematics		Yes		Free	Windows Linux *Mac
Scratch		Learning Programming		Yes		Free
Blockly		Learning Programming		Yes		Free	Cross Platform, browser based
Celestia		Universe Explorer with Lua Scripting		Yes		Free	Multiplatform

Drawing Software
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Software	Version	Applications	Issues	Open Source	License	Cost	Platform	Comments
Inkscape		Scalable Vector Graphics (2D Graphics design)		Yes		Free
Dia		Open source clone of Visio		Yes		Free
Draw.io		Open Source Diagramming Software		Yes		Free for personal use