Okay, I'll admit it: when I first took Linux-based programming courses in C and C++, I used graphical versions of some of these tools sometimes, and sometimes I even found myself more productive when I used the two together as needed. Therefore, I think that I should at least mention the existence of graphical alternatives to the tools I've presented.

As noted in Section 1.2, “Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Linux”, the two most popular desktop environments for Linux are GNOME and KDE. Thus, most of the software discussed in this appendix will be related to one of the two.