Free high quality software for linux

1. Ultra-low latency (typically from 3 to 9 ms)
2. Full audio bandwidth (44.1 kHz and 48 kHz)
3. Stereo support
4. Packet loss concealment
5. Constant bit-rates from 32 kbps to 128 kbps and above
6. A fixed-point version of the encoder and decoder
7. The CELT codec is meant to close the gap between Vorbis and Speex for applications where both high quality audio and low delay are desired.

Enhancements:

• Has just been released, with many quality improvements, including better stereo coupling, better handling of transients, and better handling of highly tonal signals.
• Packet loss robustness has been improved through the optional use of independent (intra) frames.
• Supports a larger dynamic range, suitable for encoding 24-bit audio (float version only).
• There is also a very early VBR implementation.
  

GGobi is an open source visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data.
The application provides highly dynamic and interactive graphics such as tours, as well as familiar graphics such as the scatterplot, barchart and parallel coordinates plots.
Plots are interactive and linked with brushing and identification.
Main features:
- Need to look up cases with low or high values on some variables (price, weight,...) and show how they behave in terms of other variables? ? brush in linked plots.
- Want to fluently examine the results of your R analyses in R? Use rggobi to easily transfer data between the two applications.
- Need to "see" the separation between clusters in high dimensions? ? take a (helicopter) tour in high dimension.
- Want to examine network data? ? lay out the network graphically and link it to other plots.
- Need to create high-quality publication graphics? Read about the describe display plugin and associated R package.
- Draw dotplots and scatterplots, barcharts, spineplots and histograms, parallel coordinate plots, scatterplot matrices
- Link data points and lines between plots using persistent or transient brushing, and identification
- Pan and zoom
- Rotate data in 3D, and tour high-dimensional data using sequences of 1D, 2D and 2x1D projections augmented by manual control and automatic projection pursuit guidance
- Acts as a high-dimensional drawing tool, by adding, moving, and drawing lines between points.
- Connects with R to perform statistical analyses
- Can be extended using modular plugins
Installation:
./configure --with-all-plugins
make
sudo make install
make ggobirc
sudo mkdir -p /etc/xdg/ggobi
sudo cp ggobirc /etc/xdg/ggobi/ggobirc
You may need to include /usr/local/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH if it is not already there.

TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation.
We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a wide audience. Read more about TheOpenCD.
When inserting the CD into a machine running Windows a content browser will launch automatically (provided Autorun is enabled).
Main features:
Productivity
- OpenOffice 1.1.4
- AbiWord 2.2.8
- PDFCreator 0.8
Design
- GIMP 2.2.8
- TuxPaint 0.9.14
- NVU 1.0
Internet/Networking
- FireFox 1.0.4
- Thunderbird 1.0.2
- Gaim 1.3.1
Multimedia
- Audacity 1.2.3
- Celestia 1.3.2
- Really Slick Screensavers
Utilities
- 7-zip 4.23
- Notepad2 1.0.12
Games
- Sokoban 1.187
- Battle for Wesnoth 0.9.3

libAfterImage is a small, fast, and powerful library for high-quality image manipulation.
libAfterImage is a generic image manipulation library. It was initially implemented to address AfterStep Window Managers needs for image handling, but it evolved into extremely powerfull and flexible software, suitable for virtually any project that has needs for loading, manipulating, displaying images, as well as writing images in files.
Most of the popular image formats are supported using standard libraries, with XCF, XPM, PPM/PNM, BMP, ICO, TGA and GIF being supported internally.
PNG, JPEG and TIFF formats are supported via standard libraries.
For convinience, source for libJPEG and libPNG is supplied with libAfterImage.
Powerfull text rendering capabilities included, providing support for TrueType fonts using FreeType library, and antialiasing of standard fonts from X window system.
Primary design goals of libAfterImage are memory efficiency and superior image quality.
Extensive documentation, examples, and XML image scripting tool ascompose, are included with the library.
libAfterImage allows output of the image on any of the X11 display, MS Windows DIB, or standard output, which is suitable for web servers.
Enhancements:
- New features include image slicing, better support for 32-bit visuals, and proper Gaussian blur with radii up to 128.

Java-GNOME application is a set of Java bindings for the GNOME and GTK libraries that allow GNOME and GTK applications to be written in Java.

The Java-Gnome API has been carefully designed to be easy to use, maintaining a good OO paridigm, yet still wrapping the entire functionality of the underlying libraries.

Java-Gnome can be used with the Eclipse development environment and Glade user interface designer to create applications with ease.

Java-Gnome is part of the official Gnome Bindings Release, commiting us to high quality regular releases.