[clug] Linux on new school computers (S/W List)

[jm]

jm wrote:

As of 20071127T1830 the list is as below. There's simple too much to 
review in a short period. Is anyone's favorite piece of software 
missing? Any areas/disciplines missing? (I added administration down the 
end of the list). In a couple of areas I've simply referenced someone 
else's list. Comments, etc?

Other thoughts: Any clear winners here that must absolutely be demo-ed 
given the chance? Any absolute dogs that should be avoided? My thoughts 
are to pick one or two clear winners per category to be ready to demo if 
asked about a particular area and a few applications for a set presentation.

Jeff.

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English

Foreign Languages
   parley
     http://edu.kde.org/parley/
   jvlt
     http://jvlt.sourceforge.net/
   Mango (website)
     http://www.mangolanguages.com/
   KVoctrain
     http://edu.kde.org/kvoctrain/

Mathematics
   Sage
     http://sagemath.org/
   SciLab
     http://www.scilab.org/
   R  Language for statistics
     http://www.r-project.org/
   Dr Geo - Geometry
     http://www.ofset.org/drgeo

Astronomy
  Celestia
    http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
  Stellarium
    http://www.stellarium.org/
  Starplot
    http://starplot.org/
  KStars (Desktop Planetarium for KDE)
    http://edu.kde.org/kstars/

Physics
  Phat
    http://phet.colorado.edu/new/index.php
  Elmer
    http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/elmer
  Step (interactive physical simulator)
    http://edu.kde.org/step/

Chemistry
   JMol
     http://jmol.sourceforge.net/
   Chime
     http://ariadne.mse.uiuc.edu/Info/Chime/chime_linux.html
   Open RasMol
     http://www.openrasmol.org/
   GenChemLab - Lab simulator
     http://genchemlab.sourceforge.net/
   VigyaanCD - Live CD with Bio and Chem software
     http://www.vigyaancd.org/
   Ghemical
     http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/projects/ghemical/
   XChemDraw
     http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/
   Kalzium (periodic table)
     http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/

Earth Sciences
   Grass GIS
     http://grass.itc.it/
   QGIS
     http://www.qgis.org/
   Google Earth
     http://earth.google.com/
   GeoServer
     http://geoserver.org/
   List of Tools
     http://opensourcegis.org/
     http://freegis.org/
   Other
     http://remotesensing.org/Home.html


Biology
  Software List
    http://www.bioinformatics.org/software/index.php3

History

Geography
   KGeography
     http://kgeography.berlios.de/
   BrewsterJennings  (Web based)
     http://www.brewsterjennings.com/
   Generic Mapping Tools
    http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
   Marble
    http://edu.kde.org/marble/


Music and Multi-Media
  eg https://canorus.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
   Audacity
     http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
   Linux Journal (Article)
     http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7606
   Gimp
     http://gimp.org/
   Inkscape - vector drawing
     http://www.inkscape.org/
   Blender
     http://www.blender.org/
   Dyne:bolic (LiveCD)
     http://www.dynebolic.org/
   Ardour (Multi track audio editing)
     http://ardour.org/
   Beast (music composition and modular synthesis)
     http://beast.gtk.org/

Comp Sci
  etoys (smalltalk)
    http://waveplace.com/movies/
    http://www.squeakland.org/
  scratch
    http://scratch.mit.edu/
  kara (erlang)
    http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1292520.1292534     (paper)
    http://www.erlang.se/workshop/2007/proceedings/12huch.pdf (presentation)
   Alice
     http://www.alice.org/
  Add you favorite language here.

General/back office
  Open Office
    http://openoffice.org/
  Moodle
    http://moodle.com/ and http://moodle.org/
  GTypist
    http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/
  GCompris
    http://gcompris.net/
  GnuCash
     http://gnucash.org/
  Evolution
     http://www.novell.com/products/evolution/
  Thunderbrid and Firefox
     http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/
  VNC
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC (which version?)

Administration
  See list at http://schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Directory-administration


Software Lists, etc
   http://linuxappfinder.com/education
   http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Scientific/Education-1.html?sort=author
   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-livecded/
   http://edu.kde.org/
   http://www.schoolforge.net/education-software
   http://schoolforge.org.uk/


thanks to
   david.symons at liberatedcomputing.net
   stiiixy at gmail.com
   andrew.bruce at immi.gov.au
   adam at snorkel.rtfm.net.au
   Duncan.Bolt at anu.edu.au
   tridge at samba.org
   rklein at tpg.com.au
   bradh at frogmouth.net
   Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au
   georgebray at gmail.com