About the free softwares | At the office | Intranet & internet
Here, you will find links to informations which could be useful to any control engineer, about tools essentialy issued of the free softwares world, for uses in engineering, design, drafting, data display, projects management ...
You will also find links to freesoftwares developers sites very rich (thousands of projects), where you will find technical or specialized applications : softwares in CAD, projects management ...
Framasoft | SourceForge | Free Software foundation | GNU
Framasoft is a very rich site, which provide all a collection of free softwares classified by rubrics, with comments, learning supports ... in a wide range of applications - office automation, graphism, informatique, programming, internet, security tools ...
SourceForge is a site of free (to use) softwares developers (read the licences attentively), which publish a large number of softwares in vary various domains, as well applications for general public as specialized softwares tools for professionals.
7-zip | OpenOffice | OpenWorkBench | Gantt Project | INRIA | Scilab
"7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio, [...] a free software distributed under the GNU LGPL (except for the RAR plugin)."
Finished the multiple versions of text editors, according to the providers and/or the clients !
This package is build with all the components usually provided in this kind of product : text editor, drawing, spreadsheet, data base editor, slides editor, mathematic editor.
Several extensions are available.
A possible alternative to standardize execution and exchange of documentations ?
Openworkbench is a very full software to manage your projects.
It provides the functions the most used in project management, but it is more simple than Openworkbench.
The interface is attractive and pleasant, it proposes Gantt & Pert diagrams, resources management, but not costs management (not yet ?).
The Computing and Automatics french National Research Institute (INRIA) publishes its own softwares under the CeCILL licence - free software licence compliant with the european legislation, according to the philosophy of GNU. You will find SciLab there, for instance.
You can look for a software through an alphebetical list or by theme, where you can discover development softwares in Man Machine Interfaces (MMI), tools and languages for real-time systems, networking and communicating systems tools, data processing softwares, image processing, languages tools, softwares and library for geometry, algebra, arithmetic and combinational, scientific computing tools and many others.
"Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications". www.scilab.org
Computing software, data processing and display ... rival of Mathlab and Mathematica, but free to use. The Scilab project is developped by INRIA.
The MUSTIG (Multidimensional Signals Tools for Interactive and Graphics) software is a data processing software developped and published freely by the Images and Signal Laboratory (LIS) within the (french) National Scientifics Research Center (CNRS), intended to industrials, engineers, scientifics and researchers.
This system is interactive and entirely graphic. It allows analysing, simulating, displaying and filtering multidimensional signals and matrix. Input signals come from dedicated input modules, disk files or "copy-paste" operations.
Mozilla | Opera | Remote control
Suite of very safe and useful softwares to use Internet as well : a WEB browser (Firefox), and an email manager (Thunderbird).
Not well known by the general public, Opera is very largely widespread as a web browser for mobile phones though.
Computer remote control softwares are very useful for maintenance and diagnostic of automated applications (Human Machine Interfaces, programmable logic controllers ...) and the systems on which they are running.
You know "PC anywhere" ; here are some free softwares which offer these functions.
Last updated : November 4th, 2009.
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