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Audio

* EMMS The Emacs Multimedia System.
* GNUMP3d Server for streaming audio files.
* GNUpod Manage your iPod.
* GNU Radio A GNU software radio.
* GNUsound A multitrack sound editor for GNOME.
* libcdio GNU CD Input and Control Library.
* libcdio API documentation.
* libextractor Library to extract meta-data from files.
* Octal Free music system.

Business and productivity

* Archimedes Semiconductor device simulator.
* BPEL2oWFN Translating BPEL Process to Open Workflow Nets.
* Bayonne Bayonne 2 Scripting Guide.
* ccAudio C++ class framework for manipulating audio data.
* ccRTP GNU ccRTP Real-Time Transport Protocol Framework.
* ccScript C++ class framework for creating a virtual machine execution system.
* Electric Sophisticated electrical CAD system.
* GnuAE Designing alternate energy systems.
* Gnucap The GNU Circuit Analysis Package.
* GnuCash Free Accounting Software.
* GNUCOMM Overview of the Telecom subsystem of the GNU Project.
* GNUe GNU Enterprise.
* GNUMed Software for paperless medical practice.
* Gnumeric The GNOME Office Spreadsheet.
* phpGroupWare Multi-user groupware suite.
* ToutDoux A project manager for GNOME.

Database

* Ferret Ferret Hacking Guide.
* gnusql GNU SQL Server Architecture.
* GURGLE GNU Report Generator Language.

Education

* Dr. Geo Interactive geometry software.
* GCompris Educational games for small children.
* gnuschool Web application for educators, students, and school administrators.
* GTypist Documentation of the typing tutor gtypist.
* MDK The GNU MIX Development Kit.

Email

* Anubis The GNU SMTP message submission daemon.
* Gnus The newsreader Gnus.
* Mailman The GNU Mailing List Manager.
* Mailutils Utilities & library for mailboxes, protocols.
* MH-E Emacs interface to the MH mail system.

Games

* GNU Backgammon The incomplete GNU Backgammon manual.
* GNUbik The GNUbik toy.
* GNU Go The GNU Go program.
* GNU Robots Construct a program for a little robot and watch him explore a world.
* GNU shogi Japanese chess.
* Liquid War 6 A unique multiplayer wargame.
* GNU Motti A multiplayer network strategy game.

Graphics

* 3DLDF 3D drawing with MetaPost output.
* Dia A GTK+ based diagram creation program.
* GIMP The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
* Plotting utilities GNU plotting utilities.
* XaoS Fast interactive fractal zoomer.

Hobbies

* Denemo Graphical music notation program that's a frontend to GNU Lilypond.
* Gnutrition GNOME nutrition analysis software.
* LilyPond LilyPond, the GNU Project music typesetter.
* Phantom.Home Home automation system.
* Phantom.Security Computer-controlled security system.
* Solfege An ear training program.

Interface

* GNOME The GNU desktop environment.
* GTKeyboard A graphical keyboard for people with disabilities.

Internet applications

* Finger User information lookup program.
* Gnash A free Flash movie player.
* GNUnet A secure peer-to-peer framework.
* jwhois Whois client.
* Shishi A Kerberos 5 implementation.
* Wget The non-interactive network downloader.

Live communications

* GNU Messenger A messaging system that attempts to keep your conversations private.

Localization

* Gettext GNU gettext utilities.

Mathematics

* bc An arbitrary precision calculator language.
* dc Arbitrary precision RPN “Desktop Calculator”.
* JACAL Symbolic Mathematics System.
* libmatheval Library for evaluating symbolic expressions.
* Octave Interactive language for numerical computations.
* PSPP Statistical analysis package.

Printing

* gv The GNU PostScript and PDF viewer.

Science

* Units Units conversion.

Security

* GNU Crypto Cyrpographic primitives and tools for Java programming.
* GnuPG The GNU Privacy Guard.
* lsh A GNU implementation of the Secure Shell protocols.
* Radius GNU Radius.
* Swbis POSIX software packaging utilities.
* userv User service daemon.

Software development

* Autoconf Create source code configuration scripts.
* AutoGen The Automated Program Generator.
* Automake Making GNU standards-compliant Makefiles.
* Bash The GNU Bourne-Again SHell.
* Binutils: bfd gas gprof ld The GNU binary utilities.
* Bison GNU parser generator (Yacc replacement).
* cflow Create a graph of control flow within a program.
* CLISP A Common Lisp implementation.
* Cons A replacement for ‘make’.
* Coreutils Core GNU (file, text, shell) utilities.
* CSSC The GNU work-alike replacement for SCCS.
* DDD Data Display Debugger.
* DejaGnu The GNU testing framework.
* Double Choco Latte System for tracking bugs, changes and enhancements to software.
* Elisp The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
* Emacs Lisp Intro A simple introduction to Emacs Lisp programming.
* Epsilon A purely functional language.
* Findutils Operating on files matching certain criteria.
* GCC: gcc gcj gfortran gnat cpp openmp The GNU Compiler Collection.
* GDB The GNU debugger.
* Gengen A parameterized-text-generator generator based on a template.
* Gengetopt Create command line options parsers.
* Gforth A fast interpreter for the Forth language.
* GLOBAL GNU GLOBAL source code tag system.
* GNATS GNU Problem Report Management System.
* Gorm The GNUstep/Graphical Object Relationship Modeller.
* GNU Arch Tutorial for the Distributed Version Control System.
* Gnulib Source files to share among distributions.
* GNUstep An object oriented application development environment.
* Gperf Perfect Hash Function Generator.
* GNU Prolog A Native Prolog Compiler.
* Greg A testing framework.
* Guile The Guile reference manual.
* Guile DBI Guile database abstraction layer.
* Guile-GNOME Access to GNOME libraries from Guile.
* Guile-Gtk Guile interface to Gtk.
* Guile-RPC An ONC RPC Framework for Guile.
* Hello Hello, GNU world.
* GNU Hurd GNU Project's replacement for the Unix kernel.
* ID utils Identifier database utilities.
* Kawa The Kawa language framework.
* Make The GNU make utility.
* MIT/GNU Scheme MIT/GNU Scheme Manuals.
* Qexo Kawa-XQuery.
* Sather GNU Sather Tutorial.
* Sather GNU Sather Specification.
* Slib The SLIB portable Scheme library.
* GNU Smalltalk The GNU Smalltalk environment.
* SmartEiffel The GNU Eiffel Compiler, Tools and Libraries.

Software libraries

* libavl Balanced tree library.
* cgicc C++ class library for writing CGI applications.
* Common C++ The GNU Common C++ Framework.
* FreeIPMI Intelligent Platform Management System based on the IPMI specification.
* gleem OpenGL Extremely Easy-to-use Manipulators.
* GLib A general-purpose utility library
* GMP GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library.
* GnuTLS A Transport Layer Security Library.
* SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer Library.
* GSL GNU Scientific Library — Reference
* GSS Generic Security Service API Library.
* GTK+ A multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
* GTS The GNU Triangulated Surface Library.
* Libc C library.
* Libc GNU Press Volume 1.
* Libc GNU Press Volume 2.
* Libgcrypt Cryptographic function library.
* Libidn Internationalized string processing library.
* Libtool Generic shared library support script.
* libQGLViewer C++ library based on Qt that eases the creation of OpenGL 3D viewers.
* lightning A library for dynamic code generation.
* Mifluz A full text indexing library.
* Nana The GNU Nana library (assertions, logging, forall, etc).
* oSIP Implementation of SIP — rfc3261.
* Pth GNU Portable Threads.
* speex A free codec for free speech.

System administration

* acct GNU Accounting Utilities.
* Cfengine Cfengine is a language based tool specifically designed for configuring and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating systems attached to a TCP/IP network.
* Cpio A program to manage archives of files.
* GIT GNU Interactive Tools.
* GRUB The GRand Unified Bootloader.
* gzip The gzip command for compressing files.
* mcron Run jobs at scheduled times.
* Parted GNU partitioning software.
* Serveez Serveez Documentation.
* Shar utilities Shell archiver, uuencode/uudecode.
* sourceinstall An installer for source packages.
* Stow GNU Stow.
* Tar Making tape (or disk) archives.
* Termcap The Termcap Library.
* tput tput and tabs utilities for terminal control.
* TRAMP Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocol GNU Emacs remote file access via rsh and rcp.
* Xlogmaster The Xlogmaster Tutorial.

Text creation and manipulation

* Aspell GNU Aspell spelling checker.
* AUCTeX A sophisticated TeX environment for Emacs.
* Classpath Tools: TexiDoclet A system for creating info pages from Java source documentation.
* Diffutils Comparing and merging files.
* Emacs The extensible self-documenting text editor.
* Fontutils Programs for font manipulation.
* Gawk A text scanning and processing language.
* GPP Generic Preprocessor.
* grep Print lines matching a pattern.
* Groff The GNU roff typesetting package
* M4 The GNU m4 macro preprocessor.
* Nano Small and friendly text editor.
* OrgaDoc Organizes documents from XML descriptions.
* Readline GNU Readline Library.
* Sed Stream EDitor.
* Source-highlight Highlights contents.
* Info The Emacs Info reader and Info file information.
* Info standalone Read Info documents without Emacs.
* Texinfo The GNU documentation format.
* wdiff Word difference finder.

Web authoring

* GNOWSYS Gnowledge Networking and Organizing SYStem.
* gPhoto2 Digital Camera Software.
* Meta-HTML Programming language for the Web.
* Mll2html Reformats a text file containing description of mailing lists into HTML.
* Muse Authoring and publishing environment for Emacs.
* phpGrabComics Saves comic strips from the web.

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