KDevelop3 is an IDE for the X Windows System, QT, KDE, and Gnome. It's main features are a plug-in based architecture that allows you to add, replace, and remove functions without altering the source code.

KDevelop supports many other tools, such as Apache Ant, Java build tools, compiler plug-ins that define compiler options, and Doxygen (which automatically generates API documentation in various formats). It also contains some project management options, such as allowing hand-made modifications to be recognized by the IDE.

Some other useful features of KDevelop3 include support for 15 different languages and language parsers, as well as a class browser, and class, method, and attribute wizards for object-oriented languages. To aid you in debugging your application code, KDevelop contains the integrated debugger, GDB, and a Java debugger. You can set line, address, conditional, and method breakpoints and watchpoints.

KDevelop supports several version control systems including CVS, Perforce, Subversion, Clearcase, and Application Wizard.

For more information on KDevelop3, see the following resources:

Eric is a full-featured Python IDE that is written in PyQT using the QScintilla editor widget. It includes a source browser that has built-in class browsing capabilities, integrated interfaces to the CVS and Subversion version control systems, an integrated Python debugger, integrated profiling, an interactive Python shell with debugger support and command-line completion, and CORBA support based on omniORB.

Eric includes a project browser that shows source files, forms, translations, and any other file or directory that is part of the project--each on its own tab.

For more information on Eric, see the Eric Home Page.

Anjuta is a versatile IDE for C and C++ that was written for GTK and Gnome. Its main features include a fully customizable, integrated editor with automatic syntax highlighting, code formatting, and code folding and hiding.

It also includes an interactive debugger that was built with KDevelop's GDB and allows breakpoints, watches, signal, stack manipulation, dynamic tag browsing, and many other functions. Anjuta provides some project and build file management features, as well as built-in application wizards.

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Eclipse 2.1 is designed for building IDEs that can be used to create applications as diverse as Web sites, embedded Java programs, C++ programs, and Enterprise JavaBeans. It is included in the SDK on its own CD and also contains a full-featured Java development environment.

The Eclipse platform is designed and built to support the following requirements:

Currently, Eclipse is for the x86 architecture only, but the Eclipse Foundation is working on porting Eclipse to 64-bit architectures.

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Mono is an open source alternative to Microsoft's .NET Development Framework build environment. It includes a C# compiler, a common language runtime, and a set of class libraries. Mono implements both ADO.NET and ASP.NET.

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GNU Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers (such as GDB and the Perl and Python debuggers). In addition to standard features, such as the ability to view source code, DDD can also display data structures as graphs in its interactive graphical data display.

You can use DDD to debug programs written in many programming languages, such as C, C++, Pascal, MODULA-2, FORTRAN, ADA, and even at the assembler code level.

For more information on DDD, see the DDD Home Page.

Dia is an open sourced, GTK based, diagram creation program and works similarly to the Visio Windows program. Using Dia, you can draw, export, and print diagrams for entity relationships, UMLs, and networks--even if the diagrams span multiple pages. It also handles flowcharts and simple circuits, as well as advanced features like compression. By writing simple XML files, you can use a subset of SVG to draw new shapes.

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Quanta (also known as Quanta Plus) is a Web development tool for the K Desktop environment. It is designed for quick Web development and works as an IDE for XML, HTML, and SGML. If you're a Web developer, Quanta increases your efficiency because it contains an intuitive and powerful multiple document interface (MDI). By using custom actions, scripts, and configurable toolbars that you create, you can automate almost any task. Quanta also has editing capabilities.

To install Quanta, you need KDE 3 and Qt 3.0x.

For more information about Quanta, see the following resources:

Source-Navigator is a source code analysis tool. It provides such features as displaying relationships between classes, functions, and members; ediitng; and displaying call trees. You can use its search feature to find every instance of a particular function or its grep tool to find a specific string in your code. Using its included build system, you can also automatically generate your own makefiles.

Source-Navigator works with the Insight GUI interface for GDB and supports C, C++, Java, and FORTRAN.

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Subversion is an open sourced versioning control system that was designed to be a replacement for CVS. It lets you version directories, properties, renamed files, and file meta data.

For more information about Subversion, see the following resources:

Valgrind is available only on x86 platforms. It debugs and profiles various Linux systems and has proven very useful while creating SLES. Using Valgrind, you can automatically detect memory management and threading defects and retrieve detailed profiling reports.

For more information about Valgrind, see the following resources:

ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries that allow you to modify and convert images from one format to another. Over 89 major image formats are supported, including the tif, jpeg, png, pdf, and gif formats. Using ImageMagick, you can create images dynamically, which is useful when designing Web applications. It even aids you in creating animated sequences.

ImageMagick supports the C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby programming languages.

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Lynx is a text-based browser. You can use Lynx to display HTML documents and files on remote systems and access Web information.

For more information on Lynx, see the following resources:

Website META Language (WML) is an open source, HTML generation tool kit that consists of nine different parsers that work with different scripting and text processing languages. WML uses a sequential filtering scheme that generates one of the nine language processing passes, with some of the passes supporting include files. WML reads an input file, applies passes 1-9 (or the passes you specify), and produces related HTML output files.

WML also provides include files so that you can write your own custom HTML tags and extend its functionality through Perl.

For more information on WML, see the following resources:

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is an image tool that helps you develop the user interface for your product. It provides tasks such as creating and modifying images and retouching photos. GIMP is a cross-platform application that works on most operating systems, in many languages.

For more information on GIMP, see the following resources:

DocBook is a Document Type Definition (DTD) and defines how XML and SGML should be structured and, subsequently, formatted. Using DocBook, authors can exchange and reuse technical information.

For more information on DocBook, see the following resources:

Doxygen is a documentation system for C, C++, C#, Java, Objective-C, and PHP. Doxygen is similar to JavaDoc and other source-file documentation generators. It allows you to add documentation comments directly in your code and then generate HTML documentation files. This process improves synchronization between the code--its parameters, and functions--and the documentation for your application.

For more information on Doxygen, see the following resources:

XEmacs is a free, open source text editor and application development system that relates to GNU Emacs. It provides a graphical user interface.

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PyQt provides a set of bindings for the Python language that work with the Qt C++ application development framework. (For more information about Qt, see the Qt Home Page.)

You can use PyQt to develop Qt applications for the UNIX, Linux, MacOS, and Windows platforms.

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The build package contains a small, automatic build application that SUSE developed internally to help build the multiple packages and updates that are necessary for the SLES product. This build application allows you to update files and then automatically schedule the build process to include any specific updates in any future build packages.

DejaGnu provides a single front end, testing harness, framework, and infrastructure so that you can thoroughly test your applications. It's written in Expect, which uses the tool command language (TCL).

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The KDE SDK (kdesdk3) lets you develop various applications for your KDE desktop. (For more information, about the K Desktop Environment, see the KDE Web site.)

For more information about KDE development, see the following resources:

The xslide package contains an Emacs major mode that allows you to edit XSL stylesheets and run XSL processes. It's listed in SourceForge as an IDE for Emacs.

For more information about xslide, see the SourceForge xslide Project Home Page.

Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a cross-platform printing management system that works on all UNIX and Linux platforms. It's based on the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) and provides services to most PostScript and raster printers.

This SDK includes the CUPS Driver Developer Kit to provide a suite of standard drivers, a PPD file compiler, and other utilities that you can use to develop printer drivers for CUPS and other printing environments.

For more information on CUPS and its DDK, see the following resources:

OProfile collects various statistics (or profiles) for Linux systems with very low processor overhead. There are two parts to OProfile--the kernel driver and a daemon. Only the kernel part is active in SLES. OProfile can help you gather interesting statistics on all parts of your system: hardware and software interrupt handlers, kernel modules, the kernel itself, shared libraries, and applications. OProfile also includes several post-profiling tools for turning raw statistics into useful information.

For more information about OProfile, see the following resources:

The xine product is an open source multimedia player that plays CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. You can use it to decode multimedia files, display multimedia streams over the Internet, and process and playback videos.

For more information about xine, see the following resources: