gtk, Good toolkit. It is free, is actively being developed, has binding for lots or languages.
Mesa. A free implementation of OpenGL.
OpenGL. The official OpenGL site.
Pstoedit Converts PostScript files into several editable file formats.
GtkGlarea Gtk+ wrapper for opengl.
Geomview Visualization of geometric objects.
MathGL3d mathematica object interactive viewer.
Mupad Computer algebra system. I think is very complete; what i hate is it's interface, and the c-like language.
Octave Another computer algebra system. This one is GPL. I haven't look at it (yet), but again, really dislike the language.
Yacas. The beginning of a free computer algebra system. Very similar syntax to mathematica. I find it very promising.
Mathematica I think it's one of the best software systems made.
fte. This is an excellent text editor. It is FAST, does syntax coloring for several languages.
ddd. A front End to gdb.
Glade. A gtk+ user interface builder. It has save me several hours of boring work.
pdl A numerical language for perl.
IDL The Interactive Data Language.