Resources
Student Organizations & Activities
- ACM Student Chapter
- ACM-IIT Programming Competition League
- Korean CS Student Association
- Chicago GNU/Linux
- Robotwar Competition
Software Suggestions
The following programs and sites were compiled from suggestions by IIT students. If you would like to make more suggestions, please forward them to Matthew Bauer.
Websites
- The GNU Project
- Sourceforge
- Open Source Alternative
- FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory
- Manchicken.com - Win32
Operating Systems
Web Browsers
- Firefox - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
- Opera - Free BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows
- SeaMonkey - Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows
Word Processors/Spreadsheet/Presentation/Office Software
- OpenOffice - Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows
- NeoOffice - Mac OS X
Instant Messaging Programs
- Pidgin (formerly GAIM) - Linux, Windows
- Adium - Mac OS X
- Trillian - Windows
- SeaMonkey - Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows
Multimedia Programs
- Gimp - Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows
- mplayer - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
- VLC-Media Player - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
- Flip4Mac WMV Player - Mac OS X
- Amarok - Linux
- Rhythmbox - GNOME
- Winamp Basic - Windows
- gtkpod - Linux
- myth TV - Linux plus MySQL
- Kino - X Windows
- Audacity - Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows
- GNUsound - GNOME
Data Compression Utilities
Email Clients
- Thunderbird - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
- Sunbird - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
- Evolution - GNOME
- KMail - KDE
Compilers and Development Environments
- GDB - GNU
- g++ - GNU
- gcc - GNU
- dev-c++ - Windows
- KDevelop - KDE
- Eclipse - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
- SharpDevelop - Windows
- MonoDevelop - GNOME
Graphics Design Programs
Webpage Editors
- Quanta Plus - KDE
- Amaya - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
- SeaMonkey (Composer module) - Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows
- Kompozer (unofficial Nvu bugfix) - Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Antivirus Utilities
- ClamAV - Linux, Windows
- Winpooch - Windows
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition - Windows
- McAfee (available free through IIT-OTS)
- Norton Free Edition

