libssl-dev "Indispensable library for cryptography operations." |
findutils "Excellent and handy tools to locate files based on a large variety of conditions." |
grep "Indispensable!" |
diffutils "Very handy tools." |
ruby1.9.1 "Objects all the way! Very powerful and elegant!" |
sun-java6-plugin "A must have for several scientific applications that work in the browser." |
zlib1g-dev "One of the essentials tools in a programmer's kit." |
unzip "Absolutely needed utility!" |
python "Pervasive, well-integrated into several 3rd party applications. Very featureful." |
chromium-browser "Pleasantly fast and convenient." |
git-core "Very fast and highly scalable." |
ttf-telugu-fonts "Great!" |
googleearth "Simply amazing!" |
sun-java6-jdk "Java 1.6 is very good." |
openssl "Indispensable library and command-line utilities." |
liblapack-dev "Great, highly reliable library for linalg needs." |
r-base-core "Simply excellent! It is too good to ignore, if you need to perform numerical computations." |
gimp "As someone who has never used PhotoShop, I cannot compare. But, GIMP is very powerful and amazing." |
sun-java6-jre "It is a must for various kinds of tasks. It is also ahead of the OpenJDK version -- different optimizations, perhaps." |
gcc "Lies at the foundations of free software!" |
vlc "Simply excellent! I have always been pleased with it." |
emacs "Great text editor! From time to time I do try other editors. But, inevitably, I keep returning to Emacs." |