Installed Software

We try to have uniformity in the software installed on the computers in the lab. This page contains a list of software installed on them other than the factory default software.

Common

This is software that is installed on all of the computers.

• Active TCL - ActiveState provides a newer version of Tcl/Tk than Apple. It has the added advantage of being a Universal binary that works on PPC and x86, unlike the version that comes with MacOS X 10.4, which is a PPC version that has to run in emulation on an x86 like our iMacs. On the PC it provides Tcl/Tk, as Microsoft ships no version.

• Firefox - a popular web browser.

• Gimp - An opensource image editing program. Not as powerful as Photoshop, but free instead of over $600, and it does everything a non-poweruser needs.

• Linger - A program written in Tcl/Tk for doing language experiments, particularly self-paced reading studies.

• Vim - Version 7.1 is installed on the PCs. On the Macs is MacVim's gVim, which is the Mac GUI version. The current version is 7.0, whereas the terminal version on MacOS X 10.4 is only 6.2.

• R - The R statistics package. The install includes the optional GNU Fortran in /usr/local/bin/ on the Macs for compiling some R packages that aren't available as binaries.

iMacs

The iMacs in the lab have the same software as much as possible.

• Apple Developer Tools - Located in /Developer are the Apple developer tools including XCode and Interface builder. This also puts GCC in /usr/bin/.

• Adium - A multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others.

• Aquamacs Emacs - A Mac friendly GUI for Emacs.

• MacPython - The default version of Python that comes with MacOS X 10.4 is rather old (2.3.5) and doesn't support readline command line editing and history. MacPython provides a more up to date version with readline. Versions 2.4.4 and 2.5.1 are installed, but Current is pointed at 2.4.4 due to some libraries not being available for 2.5 yet. If you want a specific version type python2.3, python2.4, or python2.5 at the command line.

• MacTeX 2007 - The MacTeX users group provides a package that includes a recent version of the TeTeX port of LaTeX along with the TeXShop LaTeX editor and BibDesk BibTeX bibliography manager.

• NeoOffice - A Mac native port of the OpenOffice.org office suite.

• Remote Desktop Connection - Microsoft provides a program to allow Mac users to connect remotely to a PC running Windows.

• sshfs - A program that allows you to mount a remote filesystem over ssh. It's kind of like a hybrid of ssh and sftp, but built into the Finder.

• subversion - A popular version control system.

Common on PCs

This is software that all the PCs have.

• 7-zip - An opensource file compression program that can handle zip, gzip, bzip2, rar, tar, and 7zip formats.

• ActivePython - ActiveState provides a current version of Python for Windows that includes the Pythonwin IDE that does syntax highlighting and omnicompletion.

• ExBuilder - The experiment scripting language developed for the Tanenhaus and Aslin labs here at U of R.

• Pidgin - A multi-protocol IM client. It does AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and several others.

• PuTTY - Provides ssh, sftp, and scp programs for Windows.

Tracker

Tracker is a Dell Dimension E521 running Windows Vista Business. It has some software specific to it that has been installed as needed.

• Cygwin - A program provided by RedHat that gives you a Unix command line for Windows.

• MikTeX - A LaTeX distribution for Windows that includes the TeXnicCenter editor.

• MySQL - An opensource database system.

• OpenOffice.org - An opensource cross platform office suite from Sun descended from StarOffice.

• SQL Server 2005 - Microsoft's database system built on the Sybase database. If you want to use the ExBuilder analysis software, this must be installed.

• TortoiseSVN - Gives Windows Explorer the capability to handle SVN source repositories.

• Visual C++ and C# 2005 - Microsoft provides free versions of their developer tools for noncommercial use.

• VMware Player - VMware Player allows you to run VMware virtual machines without buying the full VMware program. It can't make new virtual machines though.

Poser

Poser is a Dell Precision 390 running Windows Vista Ultimate. Most of the software specific to it is related to image editing.

• Microsoft Office 2003

• Photoshop

• Poser