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Software | Why is it needed? |
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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 |
tig | Useful add-on for git (browser and pager for git repos) |
Kakoune | kak is a vi alternative for users that are more comfortable with it |
The Silver Searcher | ag is a very fast code searching tool similar to ack |
X.Org X11 Protocol headers | xorg-x11-proto-devel package |
Grace | 2D data plotting tool |
Software requested but not installed
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Software package | Alternative or reason to reject |
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Thunderbird | IMAP is not generally supported. The only supported email clients are Outlook and Outlook Web |
iftop | |
NetCDF | Data processing should happen on the HPC platform |
dockerMetview | Container development Data processing should happen in other platforms.on the HPC platform |