Freeware and Shareware Software

This page links to software of general rather than statistical interest. For public domain statistics software see Free Statistical Packages

Repositories

Free Software Foundation. Home of the GNU project including Linux.
CNET Inc. Integrating television programming with a network of Web sites.
- Shareware on the Internet. Excellent site, allowing you to separating the seed from the husk.

Softseek. An excellent directory of free, shareware and commercial software. Better now that windows95.com. ZDNet.
LearnKey. Software archives, discussion groups and training for for Windows 95 and Windows NT.
32bit - ServerFiles.com. Server software directory for Network administrators & IT professionals.
Simtelnet. Public domain software for Windows, Mac and MS-DOS.
Garbo. A shareware program distribution library, by Timo Salmi and others at the University of Vaasa, Finland. The Garbo archive has an extensive collection of programs and utilities for MS-DOS. Smaller collections exist for Windows, Macintosh, Unix, X11, NeXT, Sinclair QL and Linux.
TuCows. Excellent annotated collection of winsock, internet and related software.
Stroud's Consummate Winsock Applications. Internet software including file listings, ratings and for Windows 3.x/95/NT applications.

CVS. Home of the GNU Concurrent Versions System (CVS) project for managing mult-programmer software projects.
Cygwin. Unix tools and Unix look and feel for Windows. Recommended.
QPC Software. Developers of the popular QVT/Net telnet, ftp, mail and news utilities for Windows and MS-DOS.
VNC. A remote display system which gives a similar effect to running an X windows server from your PC or Macintosh.
WinCVS. A Windows-based GUI front-end for a CVS server.

See also Publishing Mathematics on the Web for converting TeX documents to Web browsable forms.

TeX User's Group. The definitive TeX site.
Sources for TeX Freeware and Shareware. Links to many implementations of TeX for different computing environments. American Mathematical Society.
Style File and Macro Library. e-Print archive, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Stock Answers on TeX, LaTeX and Friends. Answers to FAQ from the Iowa State University Computation Center.

fpTeX. A port of the Unix-based teTeX to 32-bit Windows. Fabrice Popineau.
EmTeX. The central archive of EmTeX, a public domain implementation of TeX and LaTeX for MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2.
EMTEXGI. A graphical interface for EmTeX under Windows. I haven't used this, but have heard good reports. Allin Cottrell, Wake Forest University.
MiKTeX. A native implementation of TeX for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Recommended. Christian Schenk.
Textures. TeX for the Macintosh. Bluesky Research.

Ghostscript Home Page. Popular postscript interpretter and viewer. Russell Lang, University of Wisconsin.
Frequently Asked Questions about PostScript. Iowa State University Computation Center.