GNU Linux Users Group - Trivandrum

General

* K3b - An equivalent CD/DVD writer software. You can use it to rip VCD using vcdimager package installed.
* gThumb Image Viewer - It is an image viewer. You can also use it to resize/crop the images.
* AcidRip DVD Ripper - Can be used to rip DVD.
* k9copy - To convert DVD9 to DVD5, useful for dealing with Dual Layer DVDs.
* Frostwire - Limewire equivalent opensource software.
* Deluge - A graphical bit torrent client, like utorrent.
* Transmission - A very good Bit-torrent client. Its going to be the default client in Ubuntu 8.04

Electronics Engineering

# gnuEDA - professional EDA(Electronic Design Automation) tool set. This is the most advanced FOSS EDA tool. But it requires considerable command line operations. Alternative for Electronics Workbench

# KiCAD - the next best bet for EDA tools. Considerably advanced GUI that requires minimal command line operations. Cross platform compatible.

# NGSpice - FOSS version of Spice 3 circuit simulation engine. Meets KU syllabus requirements

# gnuCAP - (Circuit Analysis Package). More advanced alternative to spice. Mostly spice compatible

# Oregano - More modern alternative to spice with its own GUI and schematic capture (not compatible with spice)

# gSpiceUI - GUI for NGspice & gnuCAP. This is necessary since most FOSS EDA tools neglect GUI for circuit simulation. This is still under development and requires compilation by user. But it is useful even now.

# MATLAB - There is a Unix version of MATLAB, but it is not free

Mechanical Engineering

* Octave - proprietary equivalent is Matlab ( matrix laboratory)
* scilab - symbolic mathematical tool
* Qcad
* Brl - Cad
* salome - equivalent to ANSYS, NISA,NASTRAN
* Open flower - free Computational Fluid Dynamic software equivalent to FLUENT
* Openfoam - Free CFD software
* g90 - free fortran compiler

Games

* Open arena - Based on the open sourced Quake 3 arena game engine. Game play is exactly like Quake 3 arena, nothing missing there. But the artwork needs to improve a lot. Also the no. of maps or the difficulty of bots would be disheartening for any serious quake 3 gamer. This game is good enough for casual gamers. It should work on any onboard with average OpenGl performance

* Alien Arena 2007 - Another game based on source code released from Id software. This is a 'complete game' if we compare to open arena and promises much more advanced visual effects. However for people on any ATi card using the proprietary fglrx driver the only way to play this game is at 640x480 resolution with most settings low. Any attempt to change visual settings crashes the game. This should not happen for nvidia/intel cards. One of the best open source games out there i guess.

* TORCS - The Open Racing Car Simulator, is a car racing simulation, which allows you to drive in races against opponents simulated by the computer.

* Flight Gear - Flight Gear is a free and highly sophisticated flight simulator.

* SuperTux - A Mario like game. Tux is the main character, kids and even grown ups will enjoy this game.

* Nexuiz - An advanced first person shooter with impressive graphics and gameplay