The power and sophistication of Unix is rarely publicized above the clamor of PC marketing. The main reason for the relative absence of fan fare for the capabilities of Unix is the scarceness of inexpensive, or free applications. Here are some people who are helping:
| Straight from the source. SGI actually gives away a fair amount themselves. |
http://toolbox.sgi.com/TasteOfDT/public/freeware/ And some of their commercial products are free http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/ |
| Get Photoshop like features on just about any Unix platform with the ever-evolving GIMP from Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and a flood of contributors. | http://www.gimp.org |
| Get an impressive array of image conversion and processing utilities with ImageMagick by John Cristy. | Also available pre-compiled on SGI's freeware distribution. |
| More image viewing and processing with xv, (as seen on the Mars Pathfinder mission), from John Bradley. | Also available pre-compiled on SGI's freeware distribution. |
| Add Tcl support to your Unix Web browser with the Tcl plugin from Sun. | http://www.sun.com/960710/feature1/ |
| For those of you prepared to hunt and pick, an exhaustive survey of ftp sites containing public domain software for SGI is provided by Bill Henderson of SGI. | http://reality.sgi.com/billh/anonftp/ |
| University of Florida Computer & Information Science & Engineering Irix Archive. An archive of freeware compiled for the most recent version of Irix, (currently 6.5). | http://www.cise.ufl.edu/depot/new/index-irix6.5-tn.shtml |