[clug] Linux on new school computers (S/W List)
Christopher Yeoh
cyeoh at ozlabs.org
Thu Nov 29 08:12:44 GMT 2007
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:41:08 +1100
jm <jeffm at ghostgun.com> wrote:
> 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?
Hey thats a list that deserves to be on a website somewhere.....
> 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.
Google sketchup is a possible alternative to blender (though they're
sort of aimed at different things) with a much better learning curve
for 3D content creation. Currently it needs wine to run, but Google
have announced they'll be releasing a linux native version of it.
Chris
>
> Jeff.
>
> ----
>
> 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
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