[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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