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| Software | Why is it needed? |
|---|---|
| Google Chrome | Widely supported browser |
| Microsoft Teams | ECMWF chat and collaboration tool |
| ecflow_ui | Managing suites. Requires qt5-qtsvg |
| dconf-editor | Easily manage Gnome user settings |
| gnome-tweaks | Useful Gnome extension |
| gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock | Useful Gnome extension |
| rclone | Access to OneDrive |
| LibreOffice | Ability to open and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents |
| Java 11 | HPSS. Potentially prepifs |
| Gimp | Edition of screenshots and other image files for presentations, etc |
| KeePassXC | Centralised password management for users |
| xwd (part of xorg-x11-apps) | Powerful command-line tool for screenshots. ImageMagick also installed |
| nmon | More powerful than top to monitor the usage of resources in the CentOS 8 VM. It's installed in our workstation image |
| xfreerdp | Enable remote desktop connections to Windows servers |
| joe | Lightweight editor currently in our workstation image |
| geany | Lightweight IDE currently in our workstation image |
| emacs | Preferred editor |
| ksh | Preferred shell for rd and other users. Most operational scripts are ksh. It will be available in the Atos HPC as well |
| vmrc | VMware remote console to interact with VMs in vSphere |
| WireShark | Currently in the workstation, makes sensse to have it in Centos as well |
| JQ | Command-line JSON parser |
| gitk | Usually part of the standard Git install |
| xterm | Suggested for HPC team |
| ctags | Suggested for HPC team |
| ack | Suggested for HPC team |
| code (VS code editor) | Preferred IDE |
| forticlient | Fortinet VPN client to be able to connect to the datacentre in Bologna |
| Sublime | Text editor including command-line editing tool (subl) |
| FFmpeg | For handling multimedia files and streams |
| pgadmin4 | To connect to and manage PostgreSQL databases |
| terminator | Another choice of multi-tabbed terminal emulator |
| seahorse | Must-have to be able to manage gnome keyrings |
| meld | Visual diff and merge tool very useful to developers |
| nedit | Another choice of editor |
| ansible | Requested by DHS and Service Reliability teams |
| Python | 3.6 and 3.8.8 |
| podman | Docker was requested but requires root / sudo, which would be a security risk, so we provide rootless podman as an alternative. Although it's installed for convenience, bear in mind that VDI is a non-persistent environment, and container development should happen in other platforms |
| krusader | Powerful double-pane file manager that used to be installed in our old Leap42 workstations |
| gnuplot | Very useful command-line tool for plotting scientific data, also included in our old Leap42 workstations |
| mysql clients | MySQL standard client and MySQL Workbench installed (version8) |
| Lyx, Latex | Required by scientists |
Software requested but not installed
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