Software for the School and at Home
The School's computer systems are installed with software from commercial suppliers, such as Microsoft and Apple, from open source distributions like Ubuntu Linux, and from other providers of commercial, academic and open source software. This page lists a small selection of commonly-used software available in the School for
- laboratory use
- use on University-owned machines
- use on personally-owned machines
- use by staff
- use by students
- use on campus
- use at home
Software Gallery
Some software is open source and some is licensed commercial software. Open source software may be freely installed on any computer system. Commercial software licences will restrict who and where the software can be installed.
All commercial software installed on University-owned equipment must be properly licenced.
Click on the icon or text for more information.
Download by clicking above and mail for a copy of the licence.
This version of Python is installed in the School's Windows Labs.
Linux users should install from their distribution's repository.
See Microsoft Campus and Select Agreements, MSDN Subscription, Microsoft DreamSpark Premium Membership, or contact
On Linux, look in your distribution's repository for MySQL software.
Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux offer OpenJDK as their default Java SE implementation.
Linux distributions usually include a version of Thunderbird. See Introductory Note 404 to set up Thunderbird to read your email.
